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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
Recent dashboard entries from California
The newest published events and reporting located in California, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Whistleblower alleges FBI targeted Los Angeles anti-ICE protesters
Prosecution
Charges dropped against five Stanford students over pro-Palestine protest
Prosecution
Judge dismisses all charges against the Stud Alley 18 arrested during San Francisco Pride weekend
Protest
Two injured at Teamsters protest outside Amazon warehouse; sheriff says motorcyclist intentionally struck crowd
Other
Five invited reporters held at gunpoint by Vandenberg Space Force Base security
Other
Photojournalist Steven Berumen shoved by federal officers while covering an LA immigration protest
Prosecution
Anti-ICE protester accused of pouring lighter fluid on CHP car is sentenced to prison
Prosecution
Westlake man sentenced for anti-ICE protest actions
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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Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson was individually named among San Diego Black Panthers arrested on July 16, 1969 while going to a...
M
Marcel Johnson
Released
Marcel "Khali" Johnson, a Black Occupy Oakland organizer involved in food and blanket distribution at the Fran...
R
Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson was arrested in West Oakland on a robbery allegation, according to The Black Panther.
The pap...
G
Georg K. P. Jokisch
Georg K. P. Jokisch is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detent...
W
William Joozdeff
Released
William Joozdeff was an IWW member from Sacramento. William Joozdeff received a four-year prison sentence, whi...
R
Robert Charles Jordan Jr.
Robert Charles Jordan Jr. was a Soledad prisoner who brought a successful civil-rights challenge to degrading...
J
John Juhn
Released
John Juhn was a Korean independence activist, printer, editor, and co-owner of the Los Angeles newspaper Korea...
L
Larry Justice
Released
Larry Justice was already imprisoned in California by 1967 on sentences for grand auto theft and assault with...
H
Hellmut Kafka
Hellmut Kafka is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Ca...
A
Akinsanya Kambon
Released
Akinsanya Kambon, born Mark Teemer, is a Sacramento artist, Vietnam veteran and former Black Panther lieutenan...
S
Sima Kaspin
Sima Kaspin is individually named in Page 3's November 11 Los Angeles report among those arrested in the prece...
G
Goldie Katz
Released
Goldie Katz was a Los Angeles garment-strike leader. Police arrested her with other strike organizers in Febru...
A
Alvina Keeler
Alvina Keeler defended herself in the prosecution of twenty-two Adohr Dairy milk-strike pickets in Los Angeles...
E
Ellen Kees
Ellen was a New Dawn Party member identified in Dragon’s Richmond explosives prosecution report. The defendant...
E
Elise Saramarielle Kelder
Released
Elise Saramarielle Kelder, Riverside Historic Courthouse green-handprint defendant, July 30 2022.
T
Tom Kellog
Released
Tom Kellog appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft a...
R
Robert Kendrick
Released
Robert “Sharief” Kendrick was identified by The Black Panther as a Black Panther Party member whom Los Angeles...
K
Kenmotsu
Released
Kenmotsu was a Japanese worker arrested for speaking at a San Francisco demonstration on December 14, 1929. Th...
E
Edmund Kibler
Edmund Kibler is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Ca...
D
Daniel King
Daniel King was identified as a sixteen-year-old Black student in testimony reproduced in the defense appeal f...
K
Keith King
Released
Keith King was an East Palo Alto Black Liberation Front member. Pamoja Venceremos reported his May 4, 1971 arr...
R
Renard King
Released
Renard King was jailed with his brother Keith in a 1971 East Palo Alto case supported by the Black Liberation...
G
George Kiosz
Released
George Kiosz was a Los Angeles labor activist prosecuted in the unemployment-demonstration cases of 1930. He w...
E
E. E. Kirk
E. E. Kirk was a San Diego socialist lawyer who defended participants in the 1912 free speech fight and was hi...
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