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Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for California.
793Documented
19In custody
706Released
9Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in California
Where California’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 164
1970s 123
1930s 97
1960s 85
2000s 72
1950s 66
Documented cases
793 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Andrew Fisher
Released
Andrew "Fish" Fisher, an Occupy San Diego organizer, was convicted under California Penal Code § 148(a)(1) of...
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John Fisher
Released
John Fisher was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal syndic...
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Alexandria Ty Fite
Released
Alexandria Ty Fite, 32, Riverside Historic Courthouse green-handprint defendant, July 30 2022.
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Frank Fitzgerald
Released
Frank Fitzgerald was one of the eight "Modesto Boys" — maritime workers framed on a dynamite charge by Standar...
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Herman Fletcher
Marine sergeant, one of the 'Camp Pendleton 14,' who pleaded guilty under pressure to charges stemming from th...
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A. G. Ford
Released
A. G. Ford was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal syndica...
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Ernest Fox
Released
Ernest Fox was one of the Northern California Communist Party leaders arrested in San Francisco in July 1951 u...
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D. Fradkin
Released
D. Fradkin was one of the workers arrested at the Los Angeles May Day demonstration of 1 May 1930 — on charges...
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Greg Franklin
Black Panther Party member beaten and arrested with Robert Kendrick by LAPD in April 1977 on false charges of...
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L. V. French
Released
L. V. French, from Eureka, received a three-year prison sentence for having an IWW membership card and served...
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Alfred Fugelvic
Released
Alfred Fugelvic was listed on the Labor Defender's class-war prisoner honor roll as serving 6 months in the Lo...
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Y. Fukunaga
Released
Y. Fukunaga was named among the political prisoners jailed in Los Angeles in 1932 who sent revolutionary greet...
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Stephen Funk
Released
Lance Corporal Stephen Funk was the first U.S. service member to publicly refuse to participate in the Iraq Wa...
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Norbert Galvan
Norbert Galvan faced deportation under the Walter-McCarran Act for past Communist Party membership. The Suprem...
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Tenola Gamble
Young Black Oakland man convicted of a 1977 burglary despite his half-brother's confession to the crime and al...
D
David Gardner
Released
David Gardner was a Los Angeles Catholic Worker who participated in the Ash Wednesday March 5, 2003 blockade o...
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Sam Gardner
Released
Sam Gardner was seized in the July 1934 vigilante raid on the International Labor Defense Workers' School in S...
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Zurebu Gardner
Released
Zurebu Gardner was a Black community activist in Riverside, California, one of two men charged with the April...
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Joseph Austin Gaskins
Released
Joseph Austin Gaskins was one of the eleven defendants in the San Diego County District Attorney's prosecution...
J
Jose Maria Gastelum
Released
Jose Maria Gastelum was a Mexican-born Los Angeles resident, in the United States since 1921, who was arrested...
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Khatari Gaulden
Jeffrey "Khatari" Gaulden was a comrade of George Jackson in the San Quentin wing of the Black prison movement...
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John L. Geibel
Released
John L. Geibel, from Sacramento, California, was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in McNeil Island...
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Richard Gentile
Released
Richard Gentile, then 20 and from Hampton, Virginia, was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — th...
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Earl Gibson
Released
Earl Gibson was one of two Black men charged with the murder of San Quentin prison guard Leo Davis and put on...
Institutions in California
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in California that appear in the census’s case files.
San Quentin State PrisonSan Quentin, California
150 cases
Federal Bureau of Prisons
59 cases
San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterSan Quentin, California
23 cases
Presidio StockadeSan Francisco, California
22 cases
Los Angeles County JailLos Angeles, California
21 cases
Metropolitan Detention Center, Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
14 cases
San Francisco County JailSan Francisco, California
13 cases
Alameda County JailOakland, California
10 cases