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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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Delia Gonzalez
A 39-year-old Chicana activist in Del Rio, Texas facing a 13-count federal indictment (up to 65 years) for all...
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Jesús González
Released
Jesús González was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, captur...
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William Grove
Released
William Grove was a militant Black worker jailed with the movement's leaders in Dallas, Texas in 1931; after a...
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Bartee Haile
Released
Bartee Haile was a white Houston revolutionary, a member of the John Brown Revolutionary Party allied with Car...
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J. E. Harvey
Released
J. E. Harvey, a farmer from Tyler, Texas, served in Atlanta Penitentiary from September 20, 1918, to October 1...
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Thomas Coleman Hawkins
Released
Thomas Coleman Hawkins Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Soldier of the 24th Infantry hanged with twelve...
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Vida Henry
First Sergeant Vida Henry, a nineteen-year veteran of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment and a leader in Com...
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Thomas Hirschi
Released
Thomas Hirschi was one of the "Moody Park Three," members of People United to Fight Police Brutality charged w...
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Henry Howe
Released
Second Lieutenant Henry H. Howe Jr. was a U.S. Army officer stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, and one of the fir...
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Lt. Henry Howe
Released
Second Lieutenant Henry H. Howe Jr. became a notable early example of uniformed dissent during the Vietnam era...
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Lewis Hurst
Released
Lewis Hurst was a white leader of the Dallas unemployment-insurance fight against peonage and segregation in D...
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Frank Johnson
Frank Johnson Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Private of the 24th Infantry among the soldiers who took...
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Lee Otis Johnson
Released
Lee Otis Johnson was a Houston civil-rights organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
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Otis Johnson
Prisoner sentenced to 17 years for allegedly stealing $17 and a TV set in Texas, listed by Amnesty Internation...
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Conrad Kroschenski
Released
Conrad Kroschenski, of San Antonio, Texas, began serving a prison sentence on May 8, 1918. He was sentenced to...
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Earnest N. Lamb
Released
Earnest N. Lamb was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Rodolfo Lozoya
Released
Rodolfo Lozoya was a Mexican-American shop steward and disabled Air Force veteran, in the U.S. 29 years, refus...
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Pat MacWharter
Pat MacWharter Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. Pat MacWharter of the 24th Infantry was the thirtee...
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Travis Glendon Martin III
Released
Travis Glendon Martin III was arrested on June 12, 2020 after engaging in civil disorder activities and assaul...
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Ernest McQueen
Released
Ernest "Buck" McQueen, born Ernest Johnson Jr., was a Vietnam-era Marine Corps deserter who walked away from t...
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Pat McWhorter
Private Pat McWhorter was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged at Camp...
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Stacey Merkt
Released
Stacey Lynn Merkt was a lay Methodist volunteer at Casa Óscar Romero, a Catholic refugee shelter in San Benito...
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Frank Miller
Released
Frank Miller, from Texas, was sentenced to iive years. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from May 19, 1919...
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Jesse Ball Moore
Jesse Ball Moore Corporal of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Cpl. Jesse Ball Moore was a 24th Infantry NCO hanged...
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