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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.

A
Alfredo Espinosa
Alfredo Espinosa was an El Paso Chicano activist and a founder and leader of Chicanos Unidos. The organization...
M
Marvin Fentis
Released
Marvin Fentis was a Black Texan who, The Black Panther reported, was already serving two life sentences for de...
F
Fishnolthtonz
Fishnolthtonz is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Ant...
T
Trazawell Franklin Jr.
Trazawell Franklin Jr. was jailed during the 1967 Texas Southern University prosecution known as the TSU Five.
C
Charles Freeman
Charles Freeman was jailed during the 1967 Texas Southern University prosecution known as the TSU Five.
F
Fun
Fun is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in hi...
D
David Garza
David was one of the Houston 12 defendants arrested following an October 1973 antiwar picket and clash with po...
L
Lenell Geter
Lenell Geter was a Black engineer from Greenville, Texas, wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in 1982 and se...
T
Tiffani Shea Gish
Released
Tiffani Shea Gish, of Houston TX, called a federal judge in Florida three times in 2022 threatening to shoot t...
D
Delia Gonzalez
Released
Delia was a 39-year-old Chicana activist in Del Rio, Texas facing a 13-count federal indictment (up to 65 year...
J
John Greenberg
John Greenberg was a Waco dentist whose arrest was described by Harold Preece. Waco dentist Dr. John Greenber...
W
William Grove
Released
William Grove was arrested in Dallas on February 25, 1931, when police attacked an unemployment demonstration....
R
Ricardo Aldape Guerra
Ricardo Aldape Guerra was a Mexican-born worker sentenced to death in the prosecution over the July 13, 1982 k...
D
David Haracz
Released
David Haracz appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of consc...
J
J. E. Harvey
Released
J. E. Harvey was a farmer from Tyler, Texas. J. E. Harvey served in Atlanta Penitentiary from September 20, 19...
V
Vida Henry
Released
Vida Henry was a nineteen-year veteran of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment and a leader in Company I. Vida...
T
Thomas Hirschi
Released
Thomas Hirschi was one of the "Moody Park Three," members of People United to Fight Police Brutality charged w...
D
Dave L. Holas
Dave L. Holas was listed by Breakthrough in its Summer 1991 prisoner directory as a Gulf War military resister...
H
Henry Howe
Released
Henry Howe was arrested on November 6, 1965. Second Lieutenant Henry H. Howe Jr. was a U.S. Army officer stat...
G
George Hughes
George Hughes was held in a courthouse vault at Sherman, Texas when a mob burned the courthouse, took his body...
F
Frank Johnson
Released
Frank Johnson was a private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Private of the 24th Infantry among the soldiers who...
G
George W. Johnson
George W. Johnson was described as a Texas poor-farmer and unemployed-workers leader and Communist candidate f...
O
Otis Johnson
Released
Otis was a prisoner sentenced to 17 years for allegedly stealing $17 and a TV set in Texas, listed by Amnesty...
T
Thaddeus Juscak
Released
Thaddeus Juscak appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...

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