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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.
Y
Yosaburo Miyagi
Yosaburo Miyagi was an Okinawan gardener and labor activist, identified as Yotoku Miyagi's cousin. Yushi Yamaz...
O
Omar Abdi Mohamed
Released
Omar Abdi Mohamed was a Somali preacher paid $1,700 a month by the Saudi government to promote Wahhabism at a...
C
Cresensiano Montes
Cresensiano Montes, reported as 25 years old and living in Wilmington, was named among defendants in the Los A...
E
Edward Montley
Edward Montley was a Black prisoner at San Quentin State Penitentiary who wrote about racial discrimination an...
J
Jack H. Moore
Jack was a twenty-two-year-old Fish Cannery Workers Union agent who was arrested while sitting in his car outs...
B
Bob Moore
Released
Robert Moore, called Bob Moore in the September 6 report, was arrested with fellow Santa Cruz Packing striker...
D
Donald Lee Moran Jr.
Donald Lee Moran Jr. was a California prisoner represented in the March 20, 2012 public petition to the United...
P
Panfilo Moreno
Panfilo Moreno was one of four cantaloupe-strike prisoners denied habeas relief by Judge A. C. Finney in El Ce...
O
Otis Morgan
Otis Morgan was individually named among San Diego Black Panthers arrested on July 16, 1969 while going to a b...
J
Joe Mori
Joe Mori, a farmworker, is named by Yushi Yamazaki (2020), printed p. 103 and note 42, among Japanese labor ac...
R
Roger Moss
Released
Roger Moss helped organize the CNVA Everyman anti-nuclear voyage and was imprisoned for contempt in 1962. Walt...
O
Otto Muller
Otto Muller is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Camp...
C
Carlos Munoz
Released
Carlos Munoz, identified in contemporary reporting as United Mexican-American Students organizer, was jailed i...
A
A. M. Murphy
A. M. Murphy, identified as assistant secretary of the Pacific Marine Firemen, was arrested in San Francisco w...
A
Austin Craig Murphy
Released
Austin Craig Murphy appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists o...
J
James Murphy
James Murphy was named in the June22 LosAngeles dispatch about the previous night’s police raid on an unemploy...
M
Michael Murphy
Released
Michael Murphy was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio o...
G
George Mason Murray
Released
George Mason Murray was the Black Panther Party’s minister of education and an English instructor at San Franc...
K
Keijiro Nagahama
Keijiro Nagahama was a chauffeur and ILD activist. Yushi Yamazaki's 2020 study, printed p. 102 and notes 39–42...
G
George Nagura
George Nagura, identified as a Japanese worker acting as a labor juror at the El Centro trial, was arrested an...
B
Bill Nandris
Released
Bill Nandris was a British Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-miss...
F
Francis J. Nash
Released
Francis J. Nash was an IWW member from Sacramento. Francis J. Nash received a four-year prison sentence for gi...
J
Jack Nash
Released
Jack Nash was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in the mid-1920s, during the era of California's criminal...
R
Ray Nash
Ray Nash was one of the named defendants arrested in the September14, 1931 San Francisco City Hall unemploymen...
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