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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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Travis Morales
Released
Travis Morales was one of the "Moody Park Three," members of People United to Fight Police Brutality charged w...
M
Mary Dianne Muhlenkamp
Released
Catholic religious sister from Indiana volunteering with the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. Arrested by the U....
W
William Cleveland Nesbit
William Cleveland Nesbit Sergeant of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Sgt. William C. Nesbit was a senior NCO of Co...
H
Herman O'Rear
Released
Herman O'Rear, a farmer from Tyler, Texas, served in Atlanta Penitentiary.
W
Will O'Rear
Released
Will O'Rear, from Tyler, Texas, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Atlanta Penitentiary from...
A
Abraham W. Penner
Released
Abraham W. Penner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Pedro Perales
Released
Pedro Perales was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, capture...
W
Will D. Proctor
Released
Will D. Proctor was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
E
Emmanuel Quinones
Released
Emmanuel Quinones, 25, was arrested on May 30, 2020 in Lubbock, TX after brandishing a semi-automatic firearm...
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Richard Racklin
Released
Richard "Doe" Racklin was an ACT UP/Los Angeles activist who disrupted President George H. W. Bush's address a...
R
Rade Radekovitch
Released
Rade Radekovitch was a labor militant deported from Galveston, Texas on 12 September 1930 to Yugoslavia on a f...
J
Jesús M. Rangel
Released
Jesús María Rangel was a Mexican revolutionary and Partido Liberal Mexicano militant who, in 1913, led a small...
E
Elton Rankin
Houston youth grazed by a bullet and beaten by police after a car chase, then charged with five counts of atte...
C
Carlos Adolfo Romero-Panchano
Released
Carlos Romero-Panchano was caught in an FBI undercover sting called Operation White Terror. A Colombian nation...
E
Elkin Alberto Arroyave Ruiz
Released
A Colombian national arrested in an FBI sting code-named Operation White Terror, Elkin Alberto Ruiz acted as a...
D
Dario Sanchez
Awaiting Trial
Dario Sanchez is one of the later-arrested defendants in the Prairieland prosecutions that grew out of the Jul...
J
Jeff Schuerholz
Released
Jeff Schuerholz (sometimes spelled Scheurholz) was an ACT UP/Los Angeles activist who disrupted a Jerry Falwel...
H
Hasan Shakur
Hasan Shakur, born Derrick Wayne Frazier, was executed by Texas on August 31, 2006 for the 1997 double murder...
D
Dave Smith
In Exile
Dave Smith was a United States Army deserter who opposed the Vietnam War and reached Sweden, one of roughly a...
C
Carlos Snodgrass
Carlos Snodgrass Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. Carlos Snodgrass was a 24th Infantry soldier hang...
H
Henry Teal
Released
Henry Teal was sentenced to fifty years in Texas in a 1934–35 frame-up arising from the killing of a CWA relie...
E
Egbert Aswell Trumble
Released
Egbert Aswell Trumble was a Rains County, Texas farmer, an official of the Farmers and Laborers Protective Ass...
J
Joe Trumble
Released
Joe Trumble was a Rains County, Texas farmer, brother of E. A. Trumble and uncle of John William Trumble, conv...
J
John William Trumble
Released
John William Trumble was born on September 24, 1888 at Point in Rains County, Texas, the son of E. A. Trumble,...

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