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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

Documented cases

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

Thomas Coleman Hawkins
Released
Thomas Coleman Hawkins was a private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Soldier of the 24th Infantry hanged with t...
Tom Hickey
Released
Thomas Aloysius Hickey was known as Red Tom. Thomas Aloysius Hickey was an Irish-born socialist journalist and...
Ivan Harrison Hunter
Released
Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-described member of the far-right Boogaloo movement from Boerne, Texas, traveled...
Lewis Hurst
Released
Lewis Hurst was a white leader of the Dallas unemployment-insurance fight against peonage and segregation in D...
Eric Jasinski
Released
Eric Jasinski was a U.S. Army intelligence analyst who served in Iraq and went absent without leave after seek...
Kathleen “Kathy” Jennings
Released
Kathleen “Kathy” Jennings was a social worker and nonviolent anti-nuclear activist born in Steubenville, Ohio....
James Johnson Jr.
Released
James Johnson Jr. was an African-American U.S. Army soldier with the rank of private first class, stationed at...
Lee Otis Johnson
Released
Lee Otis Johnson was a Houston civil-rights organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
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
Cyril was sentenced to prison for an unregistered destructive device made during the May 2020 Austin protest....
Arnold Lockshin
Released
Arnold Lockshin was a Houston cancer researcher and Communist activist who moved with his wife and three child...
Rodolfo Lozoya
Released
Rodolfo Lozoya was a Mexican-born Chicago shop steward, disabled Air Force veteran, and father of seven U.S.-b...
Travis Glendon Martin III
Released
Travis Glendon Martin III was arrested on June 12, 2020 after engaging in civil disorder activities and assaul...
David McKay
Released
David Guy McKay was one of two Austin Affinity Group members caught making Molotov cocktails before the 2008 R...
Stacey Lynn Merkt
Released
Stacey Lynn Merkt was a Methodist lay worker at Casa Óscar Romero, a refugee shelter in San Benito, Texas. She...
Ana Montes
Released
Ana Belén Montes was a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst who alerted Cuba of US plans of aggression. S...
Jesse Ball Moore
Released
Jesse Ball Moore was a 24th Infantry NCO hanged December 11, 1917 at Fort Sam Houston following conviction in...
Dennis Mora
Released
Dennis Mora was arrested on July 7, 1966. Private Dennis Mora was a Puerto Rican U.S. Army soldier from New Y...
Travis Morales
Released
Travis Morales was one of the "Moody Park Three," members of People United to Fight Police Brutality charged w...
Ramsey Muñiz
Released
Ramsey Muñiz was a civil rights attorney and two time candidate for Texas Governor who received 6% of the popu...
William Cleveland Nesbit
Released
William Cleveland Nesbit was a senior NCO of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry, born in Blair County, Pe...
Lucio Ortiz
Lucio Ortiz is individually pictured among the imprisoned Mexican revolutionaries in Charles Cline's October 1...
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...

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