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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.

154Documented
23In custody
98Released
3Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Texas

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

1910s 48 2020s 29 2000s 18 1970s 18 2010s 9 1930s 8

Documented cases

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

Homer Brooks
Released
Homer Brooks was the Communist candidate for governor of Texas, jailed at Port Arthur in 1936 while campaignin...
Barrett Brown
Released
Barrett Brown is a journalist who in 2010 founded Project PM, an open source website that analyzed government...
G. T. Bryant
Released
G. T. Bryant, a twenty-year member of the Socialist Party at the time of his arrest and a state organizer for...
Abraham Cisneros
Released
Abraham Cisneros was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, capt...
Stanley J. Clark
Released
Stanley J. Clark, an attorney from Jacksonville, Texas, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and sen...
Charles Cline
Released
Charles Cline was an IWW organizer who in September 1913 was part of a group of radical labor activists arrest...
Barry Cooper
In Exile
Barry Cooper is a former police officer who served as one of the nations top narcotics officers before becomin...
Daniel Austin Dunn
Released
Daniel Austin Dunn is a concerned netizen and a reported member of the Boogaloo Movement who during the George...
Mohammad El-Mezain
Released
Mohammad El-Mezain was a senior figure in the Holy Land Foundation and became nationally known through the sam...
Pam Fadem
Released
Pam Fadem (Pamela Fadem) is a white anti-imperialist activist and a founding member of the John Brown Anti-Kla...
Lucy Fowlkes
Awaiting Trial
Lucy Fowlkes, of Weatherford, Texas, was arrested at her home on January 5, 2026 — the nineteenth Prairieland...
Jesús González
Released
Jesús González was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, captur...
Carl Hampton
Carl Hampton was the founder and leader of People's Party II, a Houston Black Power organization allied with t...
James Johnson Jr.
Released
Private First Class James Johnson Jr. was an African-American U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas...
Kolton Krottinger
Released
Kolton Krottinger, a U.S. Navy veteran from Granbury, Texas, was arrested on November 5, 2025 on a third-degre...
Cyril Lartigue
Released
Made a Molotov cocktail near Austin Municipal Court during May 30 2020 protest; unregistered destructive devic...
Arnold Lockshin
In Exile
Arnold Lockshin is a biochemist and cancer researcher whose political identity became central to an internatio...
David McKay
Released
David Guy McKay, age 22, was one of two Austin Affinity Group members caught making Molotov cocktails before t...
Ana Montes
Released
Ana Belén Montes was a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst who alerted Cuba of US plans of aggression. S...
Dennis Mora
Released
Private Dennis Mora was a Puerto Rican U.S. Army soldier from New York stationed at Fort Hood, Texas in 1966....
Ramsey Muñiz
Released
Ramsey Muñiz was a civil rights attorney and two time candidate for Texas Governor who received 6% of the popu...
Pedro Perales
Released
Pedro Perales was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, capture...
Gavin Weslee Perry
Released
Gavin Weslee Blake Perry became publicly known through a threats prosecution, not through a widely documented...
LeRoy Pinkett
Released
LeRoy Pinkett Pvt. LeRoy Pinkett, age 23 at conviction, was found guilty of murder, mutiny, and assault with i...

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
17 cases
Tarrant County JailFort Worth, Texas
10 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville
5 cases
Texas State Penitentiary, HuntsvilleHuntsville, Texas
5 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, TexarkanaTexarkana, Texas
4 cases
Fort Sam HoustonSan Antonio, Texas
4 cases
Prairieland ICE Detention CenterAlvarado, Texas
2 cases
Harris County District CourtHouston, Texas
2 cases