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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.

1,533Documented
32In custody
958Released
13Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in California

Where California’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 361 1970s 206 1960s 205 1910s 176 2020s 125 1980s 90

Documented cases

1,533 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Juan Ramirez Diaz
Released
Juan Ramirez Diaz, an Oxnard auto body shop co-owner, was detained on June 16, 2025, while filming immigration...
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Kamile Dincsoy
Released
Kamile Dincsoy was charged in Riverside County, California, with felony vandalism over red paint placed on the...
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Allan Doble
Released
Allan Doble was an Industrial Workers of the World newspaper seller in Los Angeles. He was arrested on a vagra...
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Ricky Dodd
Released
Ricky Dodd was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio of Sa...
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Alfred F. E. Domschke
Alfred F. E. Domschke is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Dete...
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Harry Donlan
Harry Donlan signed a Christmas and New Year letter from San Quentin prison, thanking the International Labor...
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Louis Douglas
Louis Douglas was named in the June22 LosAngeles dispatch about the previous night’s police raid on an unemplo...
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Nick Dovranos
Nick Dovranos was one of six Los Angeles workers reported held for deportation following a raid on Communist P...
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James Doyle
Released
James Doyle was jailed in the Fresno free-speech fight in California. He was released on January 26, 1911 afte...
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R. V. Doyle
Released
R. V. Doyle was an IWW organizer arrested in Sacramento and released on condition that police could confiscate...
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Jørgen Dragsdahl
Released
Jørgen Dragsdahl is a Danish journalist who reported on the United States and supported the Black Panther Part...
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Richard Drake
Released
Richard Drake was a Los Angeles defendant in the prosecutions following the March 6, 1930 unemployment demonst...
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C. A. Drew
Released
C. A. Drew was an IWW member from Susanville. C. A. Drew received a four-year prison sentence, which he served...
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Angus Drysdale
Angus Drysdale was arrested in the Workers Book Shop with copies of M, according to Page 2’s August 21 San Die...
A
Anthony Dumas
Anthony Dumas was a San Diego Black Panther arrested July 16, 1969 while taking Father Curran of Christ the Ki...
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Richard Duncan
Released
Richard Duncan was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio o...
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Malcolm Dundas
Released
Malcolm Dundas was a Vietnam-era draft resister associated with the Los Angeles Resistance. He was imprisoned...
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Alfred Dunn
Alfred Dunn was a Black prisoner at Soledad State Prison and one of the Soledad Seven, a group the Black Panth...
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Mickey J. Dunn
Released
Mickey J. Dunn was an Oakland member of the Industrial Workers of the World convicted under California's Crimi...
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Myra Dunton
Released
Myra Dunton was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau’s March 1919 compilation War-Time Prosecutions a...
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Richard Durant
Richard Durant was one of the named defendants arrested in the September14, 1931 San Francisco City Hall unemp...
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Modesto Díaz
Released
Modesto Díaz was jailed in a criminal-libel prosecution connected to the Partido Liberal Mexicano press. Conte...
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Henry Eaton
Henry Eaton, reported as 25 years old and living in South Pasadena, was named among defendants in the Los Ange...
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Omar J. Eaton
Released
Omar J. Eaton was an IWW member from Eureka. Omar J. Eaton received a five-year prison sentence, which he serv...

Institutions in California

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in California that appear in the census’s case files.

San Quentin State PrisonSan Quentin, California
171 cases
Federal Bureau of Prisons
60 cases
Sharp Park Detention CampSharp Park, California
33 cases
Presidio StockadeSan Francisco, California
28 cases
Los Angeles County JailLos Angeles, California
26 cases
Folsom State PrisonFolsom, California
22 cases
San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterSan Quentin, California
16 cases
Metropolitan Detention Center, Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
15 cases