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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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R. A. Gibson
Released
R. A. Gibson, an IWW member, served a prison sentence in San Quentin. In June 1924, the IWW criminal syndicali...
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Hargit Singh Gill
Released
Hargit Singh Gill, age 22, was convicted in 2003 in the Eastern District of California for making false statem...
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William S. Gilmore
Released
William S. Gilmore was a conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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David Lance Goines
Released
David Lance Goines was a Berkeley printer, artist and Free Speech Movement participant. He printed movement li...
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Suzanne Goldberg Savio
Released
Suzanne Goldberg was a graduate-student leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and a member of its steeri...
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Ignacio Gonzalez
Released
Ignacio Gonzalez was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Rel...
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William Gordon
William Gordon received a jail sentence after a Los Angeles Panther-related arrest.
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Frank Gormlie
Released
Frank Gormlie founded the Ocean Beach People's Rag and organized in San Diego's Ocean Beach community. Followi...
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Linda Faith Greene
Released
Linda Faith Greene, age 61, was indicted in 2009 for stalking and conspiracy to threaten UCLA scientists invol...
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Emma Grondahl
Released
Emma Grondahl of Manhattan Beach, California was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation in a November...
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Werner Grondahl
Released
Werner Grondahl of Manhattan Beach, California was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation in a Novemb...
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George Haka
Released
George Haka was listed on the Labor Defender's class-war prisoner honor roll as serving 1 year in the Los Ange...
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Joseph E. Hanberg
Released
Joseph E. Hanberg appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutio...
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H. R. Hanson
Released
H. R. Hanson, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Que...
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William Taylor Harris
Released
Former U.S. Marine Vietnam-era veteran (enlisted 1965) who, after returning to Indiana University and earning...
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Frances Hart
Released
Frances Hart, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Que...
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William Harvey
Released
William Harvey was a Black marine imprisoned, along with George Daniels, for his opposition to the Vietnam War...
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Ronnie Hawkins
Ronnie Hawkins received a jail sentence after a Los Angeles Panther-related arrest.
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William Hayes
Released
William Hayes was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio of...
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Leo Hazzile
Released
Leo Hazzile, a former Black student leader at Stanford, was arrested in the May 1971 East Palo Alto Black Libe...
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Robert Heard
Black Panther Party member and co-defendant of Huey P. Newton in the May 11, 1978 Seacliff (Santa Cruz) Medite...
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Bill Heikkila
Released
Bill Heikkila was a Finnish-born radical in San Francisco targeted for deportation during the McCarthy era. Hi...
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Harold Hendricks
Released
Harold Hendricks was sentenced to two years in Los Angeles for demanding relief, one of the "June 1st victims"...
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G. C. Henry
Released
G. C. Henry appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and...
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