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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.
Kimberly Rivera
Released
Kimberly Rivera (born c. 1982) is an American Iraq War resister and former U.S. Army Private First Class. Afte...
Carolyn Rodriguez
Carolyn Rodriguez is a local activist and copwatcher in Fort Worth Texas. Over the course of her work she foun...
David Samas
Released
Private David A. Samas was an Italian-Lithuanian-American U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas in 1...
Emma Tenayuca
Released
Emma Beatrice Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor leader, union organizer, and Communist activist in San Ant...
Roy Tyler
Released
Roy Tyler Pvt. Roy Tyler of the 24th Infantry was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth following...
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
Released
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (aka H. Rap Brown) was chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and...
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Lynette Sharp
In Custody
Lynette Sharp is one of the defendants charged in connection with the July 4, 2025 demonstration at the Prairi...
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Julio Zuniga
In Custody
Julio A. "Comrade Z" Zuniga, from San Antonio, is an anarchist prisoner-organizer in the Texas prison system,...
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James Aaron
Released
James Aaron was a member of the Black Panther Party in Houston, Texas. In July 1970 he was accused of assault...
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Servando F. Agis
Released
Servando F. Agis was a Mexican journalist and organizer associated with the Partido Liberal Mexicano’s anti-Dí...
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Alberto Aranda
Released
Alberto Aranda is a jailhouse lawyer and Chicano political prisoner currently imprisoned in the Texas. While o...
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Charles W. Baltimore
Charles W. Baltimore Corporal of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Military policeman whose beating and arrest by Ho...
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Earl Barlow
Earl Barlow was a Fort Worth, Texas Unemployed Council leader arrested on 31 August 1933 and, the ILD charged,...
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Fred Bell
Released
Fred Bell was a Texas community organizer (associated with the Dallas chapter of SNCC) whom The Black Panther...
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Vernon Benton
Released
Vernon Benton was a member of the Houston chapter of the Black Panther Party who, with fellow members James Aa...
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Gerald Bernard Best
18-year-old wounded when Houston police riddled a car with bullets, then charged with five counts of attempted...
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Cal Ray Biggins
Released
Cal Ray Biggins was an 18-year-old Black Dallas youth indicted by the Dallas County grand jury for the January...
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William D. Boone
William D. Boone Pvt. William D. Boone of the 24th Infantry was sentenced to death in the second/third Houston...
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William Brackenridge
William Brackenridge Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. William Brackenridge of the 24th Infantry was...
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William Breckenridge
Private William Breckenridge was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged a...
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Wagner Bridger
Released
Wagner Bridger was an Army doctor given an undesirable discharge after invoking the Fifth Amendment on a loyal...
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Larnon J. Brown
Larnon J. Brown Corporal of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Cpl. of the 24th Infantry among the 13 soldiers convic...
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Mario Cantu
Released
Mario Cantú was a San Antonio restaurateur and Chicano-movement activist who became, by his account, the first...
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Ramon Chacon
Chicano activist known for organizing for the rights of Mexican people in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, arrested o...
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