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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.
C
Chusei Teruya
Chusei Teruya was an Okinawan gardener and labor activist. Yushi Yamazaki's 2020 study, printed p. 102 and not...
E
Ed Theriault
Ed Theriault and his brother were held incommunicado for a week in the Oroville, California jail on a criminal...
B
Brendan Munro Thompson
Awaiting Trial
Brendan Munro Thompson, publicly identified as Bella Thompson and Bella Castillo, was arrested after an immigr...
J
James Thornton
James Thornton was a motorman involved in the Los Angeles Railway strike. A December 7 dispatch in the Daily W...
M
Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton was named in the November 22, 1934 Western Worker continuation listing San Francisco Jefferson P...
H
Hans Tidow
Hans Tidow is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Camp,...
C
Claudine Tiesler
Claudine Tiesler is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention...
M
Micah Tillmon
Released
Micah Tillmon is a West Hills, California man who was 19 years old when he was sentenced to 18 months in feder...
B
B. Toboado
Released
B. Toboado was arrested in Los Angeles on November 22, 1927, on a criminal-syndicalism accusation for selling...
E
Erich Toppel
Erich Toppel is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Cam...
J
Jorge Torres
Released
Jorge Torres was a Spanish freelance videographer jailed while documenting Greenpeace’s 2001 Vandenberg anti-m...
T
Ted Townsend
Released
Ted Townsend was held in the Presidio Army stockade in San Francisco during a disputed military induction and...
F
Frank Travis
Released
Frank Travis was arrested in California and jailed awaiting trial in the Sacramento IWW case. He was held in t...
A
Amanda Trebach
Released
Amanda Trebach, a registered nurse, was arrested on August 7, 2025, while participating in a Harbor Area Peace...
E
Ernest Triefenstein
Released
Ernest Triefenstein was a U.S. Army prisoner and one of the Presidio 27. On October 14, 1968, twenty-seven pri...
D
Danny Troxell
Danny Troxell was a Pelican Bay prisoner, 2011 hunger-strike participant and plaintiff in Ashker v. Brown. In...
F
Federico Tschischke
Federico Tschischke is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detent...
H
Herbert Tucker
Released
Herbert Tucker, identified as Herbert (4X) Tucker, was a Nation of Islam member detained following a January 2...
J
James Turner
James Turner was arrested at a May 15 antiwar meeting in Los Angeles, according to the contemporary column.
T...
S
Sam Tyson
Released
Samuel Reynier Tyson was a California Quaker, farmer and peace organizer associated with the Committee for Non...
U
Ulibarri
Released
Ulibarri was a young Partido Liberal Mexicano-associated defendant jailed in the same Los Angeles libel prosec...
B
Bill Unger
Bill Unger was a Vietnam veteran associated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War who was jailed during an ear...
J
Joe Varela
Released
Joe Varela was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison during the era of California's criminal-syndicalism pros...
T
Tomas Varela
Tomas Varela was an East Los Angeles College student and La Vida Nueva editor named among the ten defendants i...
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