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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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Juan Robles
Juan Robles was an East Los Angeles College student associated with La Vida Nueva. Contemporary La Raza and El...
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Synrico J’Marcus Rodgers
Synrico J’Marcus Rodgers was a California prisoner represented in the March 20, 2012 public petition to the Un...
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Victor Rodriguez
Released
Victor Rodriguez was one of the five anti-fascist Spanish sailors who deserted a Franco warship and claimed po...
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Felix Rodriques
Felix Rodriques was arrested during the Imperial Valley cantaloupe strike. L. P. Rindal’s June 1, 1928 account...
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Gabriel Rodríguez
Released
Gabriel Rodríguez was prosecuted in a federal case arising from a 2025 protest. Rodríguez pleaded guilty on Se...
J
Junior Roldan
Junior Roldan of Hollywood was taken into federal custody in the prosecution arising from the June 8, 2025 imm...
B
Bernardino Romero
Released
Bernardino Romero was prosecuted for criminal syndicalism in Redwood City, California, after possessing Commun...
A
Annette Roper
Released
Annette Roper was a Black Panther Party member receiving almost daily medical treatment for severe asthma when...
J
James Rorty
Released
James Rorty, a New York Post reporter and Non-Partisan Labor Defense member, was jailed in California’s Imperi...
C
Cameron Rose
Released
Cameron Rose was arrested about a month after a December 2011 confrontation at an Occupy Oakland teepee vigil...
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Eileen Rose
Released
Eileen Rose was one of eleven-year-old twin sisters arrested on Oakland, California streets for selling the Co...
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Kathleen Rose
Released
Kathleen Rose was one of eleven-year-old twin sisters arrested on Oakland, California streets for selling the...
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Rose Rose
Rose Rose was a California Cotton Mills strike picket in Oakland. The August 17, 1936 Western Worker, page 1,...
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Rosenbaum
Released
Rosenbaum was a metal painter who had worked in San Bernardino, California. In 1934, while out of work, he wen...
B
Bernard Rosenfeld
Released
Bernard Rosenfeld was a Los Angeles political activist arrested with James Turner at an anti-war meeting on Ma...
J
James T. Rowland
Released
James T. Rowland appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft...
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Walter Rozier
Released
Walter Rozier was a Black Panther Party member in Oakland. Police arrested him in October 1974 after a shootin...
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Morris Rubin
Released
Morris Rubin was a skilled upholsterer and charter member of the Furniture Workers Union. He lived for seven y...
G
George Ruiz
George Ruiz was a Pelican Bay prisoner and plaintiff in Ashker v. Brown. In an April 30, 2013 sworn declaratio...
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Pat Runo
Pat Runo was individually named as arrested June 21, 1982 for jaywalking at Livermore Labs and later convicted...
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Rocky Runyan
Released
Rocky Runyan appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Alan Rupert
Released
Alan Rupert was a U.S. Army prisoner and one of the Presidio 27. On October 14, 1968, twenty-seven prisoners a...
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Trina Rupley
Released
Trina Rupley is a U.S. citizen arrested while witnessing a federal immigration operation at a Linda Vista apar...
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W. Rutherford
Released
W. Rutherford was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in the mid-1920s, during the era of California's crim...
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