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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.

B
Barbara Hirshkowitz
Released
Barbara Hirshkowitz was jailed December 10–14, 1982 after an anti-nuclear blockade at Mather Air Force Base.
J
John Hix
John Hix was individually named among the labor and political prisoners actually confined at Folsom Prison at...
M
Michael Hoey
Michael Hoey, also recorded as Michael Hoy, was an Industrial Workers of the World member jailed during the Sa...
E
Eva Rose Holland
Released
Eva Rose Holland was convicted of conspiracy and attempted arson in connection with the December 2004 ELF-clai...
L
Lili Marie Holland
Released
Lili Marie Holland was convicted of conspiracy and attempted arson in connection with the December 2004 ELF-cl...
H
Hollen
Released
Hollen was among six workers arrested and held in San Pedro on assault, riot and arson charges during the May...
J
James Doc Holliday
James Doc Holliday was identified as James “Doc” Holliday, a prisoner witness at the Little–Remiro escape tria...
J
J. L. Hollis
Released
J. L. Hollis was an IWW member from Los Angeles. J. L. Hollis received a three-year sentence, which he served...
T
Thomas Hooker
Released
Thomas Hooker was an IWW member from Stockton. Thomas Hooker received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence,...
A
Alexander Horr
Released
Alexander Horr was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutio...
R
Roy House
Released
Roy House was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, arrested in the July 1923 roundup of the union...
P
Paul Howard
Released
Paul Howard appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and c...
G
George Hoxie
Released
George Hoxie was a Los Angeles labor activist arrested during the May Day demonstration on May 1, 1930. Police...
W
Wood Hubbard
Wood Hubbard was a socialist organizer and participant in the San Diego free speech campaign of 1912. Contempo...
A
Audrey Hudson
Released
Audrey Hudson was a Black Panther Party member arrested with other Bay Area Panthers during the police actions...
E
Eugene Huelsman
Released
Eugene Huelsman, of Thousand Oaks CA, a longtime CNN/ABC/NBC camera operator and seven-time Primetime Emmy nom...
W
W. H. Huffine
Released
W. H. Huffine was a defendant in the Sacramento criminal-syndicalism prosecution arising from the organizing c...
C
Carl Hummel
Released
Carl Hummel was one of the workers arrested at the Los Angeles May Day demonstration of 1 May 1930 — on charge...
L
Lee Hung
Released
Lee Hung was a defendant in the Sacramento criminal-syndicalism prosecution arising from the organizing campai...
D
Donald Hunter
Released
Donald Hunter was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines arrested after a November 13, 1976 confrontation...
G
Gus Hunter
Gus Hunter is individually named in Page 3's November 11 Los Angeles report among those arrested in the preced...
L
Leroy Hutchinson
Leroy Hutchinson was a California prisoner and prison activist whose placement in maximum-security segregation...
P
Preston Huteson
Released
Preston Huteson was arrested on June 1, 2020. On June 1, 2020 Preston Huteson, 30, of Pasadena, CA was arrest...
F
Friedrich W. Hutmacher
Friedrich W. Hutmacher is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Det...

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