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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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Larry Henson
Released
Larry Henson was a member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland. In December 1974 he was among the Party membe...
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Peter Heppner
Released
Peter Heppner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Eduardo Herera
Released
Eduardo Herera, an activist in the Imperial Valley farm workers strike, received a two- to twenty-eight-year p...
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Oliver Edu Solares Herrera
Released
Oliver Edu Solares Herrera, 24, was one of the Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights defendants charged after green handpr...
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Serena Hertel
Released
Serena Hertel, 25, is an activist from California who was among the first five people arrested at the Stop Cop...
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Luke Hinman
Released
Luke Hinman was a CIO organizer for the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America (U...
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Eva Rose Holland
Released
Eva Rose Holland, age 25, was convicted of conspiracy and attempted arson in connection with the December 2004...
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Lili Marie Holland
Released
Lili Marie Holland, age 20, was convicted of conspiracy and attempted arson in connection with the December 20...
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J. L. Hollis
Released
J. L. Hollis, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a three-year sentence, which he served in San Quentin f...
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Thomas Hooker
Released
Thomas Hooker, an IWW member from Stockton, received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served...
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Alexander Horr
Released
Alexander Horr appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
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Albert Hougardy
Released
Albert Hougardy was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal sy...
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Roy House
Released
Roy House was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, arrested in the July 1923 roundup of the union...
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George Hoxie
Released
George Hoxie was one of the workers arrested at the Los Angeles May Day demonstration of 1 May 1930 — on charg...
E
Eugene Huelsman
Released
Eugene Huelsman, age 58, of Thousand Oaks CA, a longtime CNN/ABC/NBC camera operator and seven-time Primetime...
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W. H. Huffine
Released
W. H. Huffine was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal synd...
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Carl Hummel
Released
Carl Hummel was one of the workers arrested at the Los Angeles May Day demonstration of 1 May 1930 — on charge...
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Lee Hung
Released
Lee Hung was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal syndicali...
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Donald Hunter
Black Marine defendant among the 'Camp Pendleton 14,' on trial in the racist courts-martial arising from Black...
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Preston Huteson
Released
On June 1, 2020 Preston Huteson, 30, of Pasadena, CA was arrested in Compton, Los Angeles by the "Safe LA Task...
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David Hyun
Released
David Hyun was a Korean-American architect held without bail on Terminal Island from the McCarran Act midnight...
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Patricia Iiyama
Released
Patricia “Patti” Iiyama was a civil-rights activist and member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement executive...
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José Jacques Medina
Released
José Jacques Medina was a Mexican political exile, attorney and labor organizer in Los Angeles and a leader of...
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John Janosco
Released
John Janosco was a western field representative of the United Packinghouse Workers in Los Angeles whom the Jus...

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