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Hawaii

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 Hawaii.

45Documented
0In custody
31Released

Eras of repression in Hawaii

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

1940s 15 1950s 11 1920s 6 1970s 4 1980s 3 1930s 2

Documented cases

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

Jim Albertini
Released
Jim Albertini was arrested on March 8, 1972. Hawaii anti-nuclear and anti-militarism activist, founder of Mal...
Koji Ariyoshi
Released
Koji Ariyoshi was the editor of the Honolulu Record, a progressive labor weekly, and a World War II veteran wh...
Dwight Freeman
Released
Dwight Freeman was a construction worker and Communist who was among the Hawaii Seven prosecuted under the Smi...
Charles Fujimoto
Released
Charles Fujimoto was the chairman of the Communist Party of Hawaii and a lead defendant among the 'Hawaii Seve...
Eileen Fujimoto
Released
Eileen Fujimoto was a union stenographer and the wife of Communist Party Hawaii chairman Charles Fujimoto, and...
Chuck Giuli
Released
Chuck Giuli was a Hawaii anti-war activist associated with catholic Action of Hawaii. He drove participants to...
Jack Hall
Released
Jack Hall was the regional director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in Hawaii, where...
William Huntington
Released
William Huntington was a Quaker crew member of the Golden Rule, the ketch that tried to sail into the Pacific...
Jack Kimoto
Released
Jack Kimoto was an employee of the Honolulu Record, a progressive weekly, and was among the Hawaii Seven prose...
Pablo Manlapit
Released
Pablo Manlapit was the pioneering Filipino labor leader in Hawaii. Pablo Manlapit organized the plantation wor...
Roderick P. Nadeau
Nadeau (Hawaii soldier, 1925) was one of the soldiers individually named as arrested February 19, 1925, in the...
Sam Nishimura
Released
Sam Nishimura was a Japanese American civilian imprisoned at Honouliuli during World War II. The National Park...
John Reinecke
Released
John Reinecke was a fired schoolteacher and Communist who was among the Hawaii Seven prosecuted under the Smit...
Earle L. Reynolds
Released
Earle L. Reynolds was an anthropologist who had studied radiation effects at Hiroshima before sailing his yach...
Orion Sherwood
Released
Orion Sherwood was the youngest crew member of the Golden Rule, the pacifist ketch jailed in Honolulu in 1958...
Edward Snowden
In Exile
Edward Joseph Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed classified records to jour...
Haruko Takahashi
Released
Haruko Takahashi was a Hawaii-born Shinto priestess who founded the Konko Mission of Wahiawa. Arrested Decembe...
George Willoughby
Released
George Willoughby was a Quaker pacifist and crew member of the Golden Rule, jailed in Honolulu in 1958 for def...
D
Damian DeLonay
Damian DeLonay was jailed for several days pending arraignment after ramming a rented car into the military fa...
J
Jim Snyder
Released
Jim Snyder was physically released September 30, 1985, a few hours after Jim Albertini’s separate bail hearing...
F
Fred Berg
Fred Berg was a US citizen living in Honolulu employed as a shop superintendent at Sears when detained during...
W
Willy Beyer
Willy Beyer was a naturalized US citizen and retired Honolulu catering and potato-chip business owner. His let...
R
Richard Jeffrey Blair
Released
Richard Jeffrey Blair, writing as R. Jeffrey Blair, was a Hawaii draft counselor and Vietnam War draft resiste...
C
Creque
Creque (Hawaii soldier, 1925) was one of the soldiers individually named as arrested February 19, 1925, in the...

Institutions in Hawaii

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

Honolulu JailHonolulu, Hawaii
8 cases
Schofield Barracks
2 cases
US military custody
1 case
Oahu PenitentiaryHonolulu, Hawaii
1 case