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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 Texas.
265Documented
27In custody
164Released
4Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Texas
Where Texas’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 49
1970s 38
2020s 37
1980s 28
1960s 28
2000s 20
Recent dashboard entries from Texas
The newest published events and reporting located in Texas, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
FBI Searches 40 Texas Homes in Probe Into North Korea’s Secret IT Network
Other
San Ygnacio residents temporarily halt disputed border-wall construction
Protest
Protesters rally outside the Pearsall ICE facility demanding release of Wilber Garces Perez
Arrest
Austin City Council candidate Misael Ramos arrested on a riot charge tied to an anti-ICE protest
Protest
Dozens rally at San Antonio City Hall against ICE operations and the shooting of Wilber Garces Perez
Arrest
Police deploy pepper balls and arrest protesters at a North Austin demonstration after an ICE shooting
Prosecution
EJ Carrion’s case delayed until November after court hearing is dismissed
Arrest
Luke Cordray arrested after two Flock cameras were disabled and marked with anti-Flock signs
Documented cases
265 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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James R. Niles
Released
James R. Niles appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
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Herman O'Rear
Released
Herman O'Rear was a farmer from Tyler, Texas. Herman O'Rear served in Atlanta Penitentiary.
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Will O'Rear
Released
Will O'Rear was from Tyler, Texas. Will O'Rear was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Atlanta Pe...
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C. O. Reeves
C. O. Reeves, an International Longshoremen’s Association member, was wounded and held on a murder accusation...
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Ruben Ogaz
Ruben Ogaz was an El Paso Chicano activist and a member of Chicanos Unidos. With Ramon Arroyos and Alfredo Esp...
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Mark Parker
Mark Parker was a cotton-field worker who wrote to labor investigators about being jailed at Taft, Texas after...
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Michael Patterson
Released
Michael Patterson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft...
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Abraham W. Penner
Released
Abraham W. Penner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Ignacio Perez
Ignacio Perez was a San Antonio Chicano student-movement leader and supporter of the Raza Unida Party. Federal...
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Perico
Perico is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in...
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Christopher Lee Plummer
Christopher Lee Plummer was an anarchist imprisoned in Texas for an anti-fascist action against a neo-Nazi gro...
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Will D. Proctor
Released
Will D. Proctor was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Richard Racklin
Released
Richard "Doe" Racklin was an ACT UP/Los Angeles activist who disrupted President George H. W. Bush's address a...
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Rade Radekovitch
Released
Rade Radekovitch was a Yugoslav labor militant and Communist Party member held by United States immigration au...
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Thomas Richardson
Thomas Richardson was a prisoner at the Eastham Prison Unit in Texas who helped save fellow prisoner Euris Roy...
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Joseph Richmond
Released
Joseph Richmond appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
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Rolando Rivera
Rolando was one of the Houston 12 defendants arrested following an October 1973 antiwar picket and clash with...
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Tim Rodgers
Tim was one of the Houston 12 defendants arrested following an October 1973 antiwar picket and clash with poli...
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Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez is identified in the Black Panther in its captioned Houston 12 photograph. The article links th...
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Magdaleno Rodriguez
Magdaleno Rodriguez led the Pecan Shelling Workers Union of San Antonio. Jamieson reports that he and several...
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Odus Rogers
Odus Rogers was a Texas prisoner accused of participating in the May 20, 1988 fire at the Ellis II prison shoe...
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Carlos Adolfo Romero-Panchano
Released
Carlos Adolfo Romero-Panchano was arrested on April 30, 2004.
Carlos Romero-Panchano was caught in an FBI und...
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David Ruiz
David Ruiz was a Texas prisoner who initiated a 1972 lawsuit challenging conditions in the Texas Department of...
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Elkin Alberto Arroyave Ruiz
Released
Elkin Alberto Arroyave Ruiz was arrested on November 5, 2002.
A Colombian national arrested in an FBI sting c...
Institutions in Texas
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Texas that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort Sam Houston Disciplinary BarracksSan Antonio, Texas
14 cases
Tarrant County JailFort Worth, Texas
9 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, TexarkanaTexarkana, Texas
5 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville
5 cases
Texas State Penitentiary, HuntsvilleHuntsville, Texas
5 cases
El Paso County JailEl Paso, Texas
5 cases
Fort Sam HoustonSan Antonio, Texas
3 cases
Prairieland ICE Detention CenterAlvarado, Texas
2 cases