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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
Recent dashboard entries from Texas
The newest published events and reporting located in Texas, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
FBI Searches 40 Texas Homes in Probe Into North Korea’s Secret IT Network
Other
San Ygnacio residents temporarily halt disputed border-wall construction
Protest
Protesters rally outside the Pearsall ICE facility demanding release of Wilber Garces Perez
Arrest
Austin City Council candidate Misael Ramos arrested on a riot charge tied to an anti-ICE protest
Protest
Dozens rally at San Antonio City Hall against ICE operations and the shooting of Wilber Garces Perez
Arrest
Police deploy pepper balls and arrest protesters at a North Austin demonstration after an ICE shooting
Prosecution
EJ Carrion’s case delayed until November after court hearing is dismissed
Arrest
Luke Cordray arrested after two Flock cameras were disabled and marked with anti-Flock signs
Documented cases
265 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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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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Christine Eirene
Christine Eirene was individually named with Kathy Jennings and Ladon Sheats in the Ash Wednesday 1983 Pantex...
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Pat Mahoney
Sister Pat Mahoney was actually imprisoned at the federal women’s unit in Fort Worth after a January 14, 1985...
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Mavis Belisle
Mavis Belisle was individually named among seven protesters arrested August 10, 1986 while blocking traffic in...
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Jimi Clark
Jimi Clark was individually named among seven protesters arrested August 10, 1986 while blocking traffic into...
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Ronnie Gaitz
Ronnie Gaitz was individually named among seven protesters arrested August 10, 1986 while blocking traffic int...
B
Bob Henschen
Bob Henschen was individually named among seven protesters arrested August 10, 1986 while blocking traffic int...
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Greg Leroy
Greg Leroy was individually named among seven protesters arrested August 10, 1986 while blocking traffic into...
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Charles Perez
Charles Perez was individually named among seven protesters arrested August 10, 1986 while blocking traffic in...
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Victor Vigorini
Victor Vigorini was individually named among seven protesters arrested August 10, 1986 while blocking traffic...
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Daniel Schact
Daniel Schact was jailed after seeking police help during an antiwar demonstration in Houston on July 9, 1967.
D
Doris Adams
Doris Adams served twenty-eight days in the Ochiltree and Roberts County jails after Judge Grainger McIlhany h...
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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...
A
Ahwandia
Ahwandia is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio...
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Eric Anderson
Released
Eric Anderson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
R
Ricardo Aquirre
Ricardo was one of the Houston 12 defendants arrested following an October 1973 antiwar picket and clash with...
A
Alberto Aranda
Released
Alberto Aranda was a Chicano jailhouse lawyer and a leader of Prisoners United for Revolutionary Education ins...
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J. D. Arnold
Released
J. D. Arnold, identified in court records as John D. Arnold, was news editor of the Dallas Iconoclast. The Tex...
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Ramon Arroyos
Released
Ramon Arroyos was an El Paso Chicano activist, a member of Chicanos Unidos and an editor of its newspaper El M...
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Lincoln Ashford
Lincoln Ashford was a Black GI organizer who challenged racism in the U.S. Army in West Germany. After returni...
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Jose Bariga
Jose was one of the Houston 12 defendants arrested following an October 1973 antiwar picket and clash with pol...
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Gerald Bernard Best
Released
Gerald Bernard Best was 18 when he survived a 1976 Houston police shooting during a car chase that killed his...
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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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Bishi
Bishi is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in...
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