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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.
D
David Salisbury
Released
David Salisbury appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
J
Jeff Schuerholz
Released
Jeff Schuerholz (sometimes spelled Scheurholz) was an ACT UP/Los Angeles activist who disrupted a Jerry Falwel...
D
Danny Servey
Released
Danny Servey appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
D
Dave Smith
Released
Dave Smith was a United States Army soldier and Russian-language specialist. In 1969 he went absent without le...
C
Carlos Snodgrass
Released
Carlos Snodgrass was a 24th Infantry soldier hanged at sunrise on December 11, 1917 at Fort Sam Houston after...
O
Oscar Gutiérrez Soto
Released
Oscar Gutiérrez Soto sought asylum in the United States with his father, Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez S...
C
Carlo Stogle
Carlo Stogle, formerly a miner at Gallup, New Mexico, was held in El Paso County jail from November 12, 1935 p...
J
Johnny Swift
Johnny Swift was a Texas prisoner, writ-writer and political activist described as a longtime Torch correspond...
H
Henry Teal
Released
Henry Teal was a Black defendant in Texas sentenced to fifty years in prison in a case arising from the killin...
M
Miguel Trevillo
Miguel was one of the Houston 12 defendants arrested following an October 1973 antiwar picket and clash with p...
E
Egenio Trivillo
Egenio was one of the Houston 12 defendants arrested following an October 1973 antiwar picket and clash with p...
D
Donald Trompler
Released
Donald Trompler appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
E
Egbert Aswell Trumble
Released
Egbert Aswell Trumble was a Rains County, Texas farmer, an official of the Farmers and Laborers Protective Ass...
J
Joe Trumble
Released
Joe Trumble was a Rains County, Texas farmer, brother of E. A. Trumble and uncle of John William Trumble, conv...
J
John William Trumble
Released
John William Trumble was born at Point in Rains County, Texas, the son of E. A. Trumble, and was a member of t...
V
Vorbie Vanderpool
Released
Vorbie Vanderpool appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft...
G
Glenn Vega
Released
Glenn Vega appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft a...
M
Maukt Wand
Released
Maukt Wand was from Houston, Texas. Maukt Wand was sentenced to fifteen months in prison and served in Atlanta...
K
Keith H. Washington (Malik Washington)
Keith H. Washington, known as Malik Washington, was an incarcerated spokesperson for the End Prison Slavery in...
J
James Wheatley
Released
James Wheatley was hanged with twelve fellow 24th Infantry soldiers at sunrise on December 11, 1917, after the...
A
Albin R. Wolfe
Released
Albin R. Wolfe was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
A
Albert D. Wright
Released
Albert D. Wright was sentenced to death following the 1917 Houston events. He was executed on September 17, 19...
Y
Yahnozha
Yahnozha is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio...
R
Risley W. Young
Released
Risley W. Young was arrested on August 24, 1917.
Rosley W. Young was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-...
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