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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 Colorado.

91Documented
3In custody
83Released

Eras of repression in Colorado

Where Colorado’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1950s 18 1910s 11 1980s 10 1970s 9 1930s 8 2020s 7

Documented cases

91 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Ripley Gibson
Released
Ripley Gibson was one of sixteen workers arrested in the Denver "Bloody Tuesday" relief strike of 1934.
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James Kenneth Gluck
Released
James Kenneth Gluck, age 53, was arrested in Tampa, Florida in November 1999 for threatening to use ricin and...
A
Abdel Mohsen Hamouda
Released
Abdel Mohsen Hamouda was an Egyptian in Denver arrested without a warrant on November 30, 1951 and held incomm...
J
Juan Haro
Released
Juan Haro was the head of security of the Denver Chicano-movement organization Crusade for Justice. The Black...
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E. Harris
Released
E. Harris was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Colorado imprisoned during World War I. Court-...
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Frank Emerson Harris
Released
Frank Emerson Harris was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Colorado imprisoned during World Wa...
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Timothy Hummel
Released
Timothy Hummel, 26, of Denver, sent threatening messages in 2019 to a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement...
A
Allison Hunter
Released
Allison (Allyson) Hunter was a Seattle-based anti-nuclear activist arrested repeatedly at the Rocky Flats Plan...
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Lewis Johnson
Released
Lewis Johnson was a Denver Communist arrested under the Smith Act in August 1954 during the McCarthy era. He w...
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Ruthven H. Lacey
Released
Ruthven H. Lacey was a conscientious objector from Colorado imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Patricia McCormick
Released
Sister of Loretto raised on a farm northwest of Chicago, served in Bolivia in 1965 where she met Daniel Berrig...
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Candalaria Montoya
Released
Candalaria Montoya was an eighteen-year-old Spanish-speaking sugar-beet worker sentenced to death near Brighto...
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Jamshid Muhtorov
Released
The FBI began investigating Jamshid Muhtorov, a refugee from Uzbekistan, after he began communicating with the...
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Dale Noyd
Released
Captain Dale Noyd was a decorated Air Force fighter pilot, psychology professor at the Air Force Academy, and...
F
Frank L. Palmer
Released
Frank L. Palmer was a labor journalist and editor prominent in 1920s Colorado. He edited the Colorado Labor Ad...
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Susan Marie Parker
Released
Susan Marie Parker was a 21-year-old member of Students for a Democratic Society from Colorado Springs who was...
A
Albert Pezatti
Released
Albert Pezatti, who had retired the previous spring as secretary-treasurer of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers...
C
Chase Powers
Released
Chase Powers was a leader of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union convicted in Denver in December 1959 of co...
A
Antonio Quintana
Released
Antonio Quintana was a 22-year-old member of the Denver Chicano-movement organization Crusade for Justice. The...
J
Jane Rogers
Released
Jane Rogers was among the Colorado Communists jailed for contempt in Denver in 1948 for refusing to cooperate...
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Ricardo Romero
Released
Chicano/Mexicano organizer with the MLN (Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Mexicano) jailed for civil contempt...
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Joe Saiz
Released
Joe Saiz was an eighteen-year-old Spanish-speaking sugar-beet worker sentenced to death near Brighton, in Adam...
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Harold Sanderson
Released
Harold Sanderson was among the present and former Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union leaders convicted in Denv...
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Joseph Scherrer
Released
Joseph Scherrer was a Denver Communist arrested under the Smith Act in August 1954 during the McCarthy era. He...

Institutions in Colorado

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Colorado that appear in the census’s case files.

ADX FlorenceFlorence, Colorado
3 cases
FDC EnglewoodLittleton, Colorado
3 cases
Colorado State PenitentiaryCañon City, Colorado
3 cases
Jefferson County Jail
3 cases
Mount San Rafael Hospital / Trinidad jail (militia custody)Trinidad, Colorado
1 case
Denver County JailDenver, Colorado
1 case
Colorado Department of Corrections
1 case
Limon Correctional FacilityLimon, Colorado
1 case