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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.

A
Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan
Released
Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan was a Palestinian-born civil engineer and former Southern California fundraiser for the Ho...
J
Joseph E. Hanberg
Released
Joseph E. Hanberg was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecu...
H
H. R. Hanson
Released
H. R. Hanson was an IWW member from Los Angeles. H. R. Hanson received a four-year prison sentence, which he s...
M
Mark C. Harford
Released
Mark C. Harford appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...
D
Diana Lee Harmon
Diana Lee Harmon was arrested at a Marin County roadblock on February17,1976 following alleged gunfire at a La...
D
David Harrington
David Harrington was individually named among arrested pickets at the L. A. Young Steel and Wire Company strik...
E
Ed Harris
Ed Harris, a machinist acting as a labor juror at the El Centro trial, was arrested and subsequently released,...
S
Steve Harris
Steve Harris is identified in a report reprinted from the San Diego Free Press as the man police harassed, bea...
F
Frances Hart
Released
Frances Hart was an IWW member from Los Angeles. Frances Hart received a four-year prison sentence, which he s...
W
William Harvey
Released
William Harvey was a Black marine imprisoned, along with George Daniels, for his opposition to the Vietnam War...
R
Ronnie Hawkins
Released
Ronnie Hawkins received a jail sentence after a Los Angeles Panther-related arrest.
B
Billy Hayes
Released
William Hayes was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio of...
C
Carl J. Heldring
Carl J. Heldring is individually named in a notice from seamen’s lawyer S. T. Hogevoll as arrested while a str...
H
Harold Hendricks
Released
Harold Hendricks was one of the Los Angeles unemployed workers imprisoned after the June 1934 campaign for bet...
E
E. F. Henry
Released
E. F. Henry was detained on November 13, 1976. Corporal E. F. Henry, 20, of Ivanhoe, North Carolina, was one...
G
G. C. Henry
Released
G. C. Henry was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
P
Peter Heppner
Released
Peter Heppner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
F
Frank Hermandez
Frank Hermandez was a one-armed worker described as an interpreter and director of the new Mexican labor union...
O
Oliver Edu Solares Herrera
Released
Oliver Edu Solares Herrera was one of the Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights defendants charged after green handprints...
C
Carl Herreshoff
Carl Herreshoff was an American from San Diego, California. A Geneva dispatch dated November 14, 1932 in the n...
H
Herron
Herron was arrested with Ray Gogan on a vagrancy accusation after a Stockton Unemployed Council relief delegat...
J
John E. Hester
John E. Hester was a Lowndale labor activist beaten and arrested when the Los Angeles red squad attacked a wor...
J
Jim Higgs
Released
Jim Higgs was an anti-nuclear protester who took part in the Choose Life witness at Livermore Laboratory. On D...
W
Walter Hines
Walter Hines is named in the July 16 Western Worker’s July 4 San Diego dispatch among arrested audience member...

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