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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.

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Christopher Clarich
Released
Christopher Clarich was president of the Shrimp Peelers Union of UCAPAWA, convicted and sentenced to twenty ye...
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Charles Cline
Released
Charles Cline was an IWW organizer who in September 1913 was part of a group of radical labor activists arrest...
C
Charles Coder
Released
Charles Coder was a white co-leader of the Dallas unemployment movement in Dallas, Texas in 1931; after a demo...
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Bradley Neil Crowder
Released
Bradley Neil Crowder, age 23, was one of two Austin Affinity Group members caught making Molotov cocktails bef...
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Alvah M. Davis
Released
Alvah M. Davis was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Ira B. Davis
Ira B. Davis Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. Ira B. Davis of the 24th Infantry was among the soldi...
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Mariah De Los Santos
Released
Mariah De Los Santos, age 23, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel; charged on Te...
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Luther Leo Denton
Released
Luther Leo Denton was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. C...
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James Divine
James Divine Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. James Divine was hanged with the 13 soldiers at Salad...
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James Divins
Private James Divins was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged at Camp T...
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Xaelyn Dunbar
Released
Xaelyn Dunbar, 19, was arrested in September 2025 and charged with making a terroristic threat over Facebook c...
B
Basman Elashi
Released
Basman Elashi, 50, Infocom logistics and credit manager. Sentenced October 2006 to 80 months federal prison.
B
Bayan Elashi
Released
Bayan Elashi, 51, Infocom CEO. Sentenced October 2006 to 84 months federal prison.
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Hazim Elashi
Released
Hazim Elashi, 56, was indicted December 17, 2002 in the Infocom case along with brothers Bayan, Ghassan, Basma...
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Ihsan Elashi
Released
Ihsan Elashi, 46, Infocom systems consultant/sales rep, sentenced January 2006 to 72 months federal prison con...
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Jack Elder
Released
Catholic layman who directed Casa Oscar Romero in San Benito, Texas (Diocese of Brownsville) from 1983 — a ref...
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Henry G. Esau
Released
Henry G. Esau was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Marvin Fentis
Released
Marvin Fentis was a Black Texan who, The Black Panther reported, was already serving two life sentences for de...
C
Claude Frost
Released
Claude Frost was a member of the Houston chapter of the Black Panther Party who, with fellow members James Aar...
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Mickael Gedlu
Released
Mickael Gedlu, age 36, a former Marine Corps service member, was indicted in 2019 for threats against the Pres...
A
Ana Lucia Gelabert
Released
Cuban-born political prisoner held in Texas state custody at the Mountain View / Gatesville women's unit. Iden...
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Ana María Gelabert
Puerto Rican independentista identified as a political-prisoner petitioner in the 1990 Special International T...
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Tiffani Shea Gish
Released
Tiffani Shea Gish, age 49, of Houston TX, called a federal judge in Florida three times in 2022 threatening to...
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Janette Goering
Awaiting Trial
Janette Goering is the eighteenth person arrested in the Prairieland prosecutions that grew out of the July 4,...

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