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Arizona
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 Arizona.
138Documented
3In custody
86Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Arizona
Where Arizona’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 36
1960s 21
1910s 21
2020s 12
1970s 9
1990s 8
Recent dashboard entries from Arizona
The newest published events and reporting located in Arizona, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Border Patrol arrests Lochiel tree defenders before cutting down cottonwood
Arrest
Three land defenders jailed overnight after disrupting border-wall construction in Cochise County
Arrest
Rubio approved a memo to detain Colombian activist Beto Coral, New York Times reports
Arrest
ICE Detains Petro Ally as Trump Accused of Interfering in Colombia Election
Protest
Two UNITE HERE organizers arrested for trespassing while protesting Aramark dining-worker pay at an ASU commencement
Prosecution
A man is indicted for trying to set fire to the Surprise ICE building
Protest
Communities Not Cages rally against the Project Blue data center
Other
A US citizen is detained for hours by ICE at a Phoenix protest
Documented cases
138 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Zimnako Salah
In Custody
Zimnako Salah was arrested on November 28, 2023 after federal investigators alleged that he repeatedly placed...
Marc Baker
Released
Marc Baker was an Earth First! activist from Prescott, Arizona and a member of the small EMETIC affinity group...
Thomas Banyacya
Released
Thomas Banyacya (born Thomas Jenkins, 1909–1999) was a Hopi spokesman appointed in 1948 by traditional Hopi le...
Klee Benally
Released
Klee Benally was a Diné (Navajo) environmental and Indigenous-rights activist, musician (guitarist in the fami...
Max Biederman
Released
Max Biederman is an activist from Arizona who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Train...
Felice Cohen-Joppa
Released
Felice Cohen-Joppa, born June 26, 1959, co-founded The Nuclear Resister with Jack Cohen-Joppa in 1980 and has...
Jack Cohen-Joppa
Released
Co-founder and co-publisher (with wife Felice) of The Nuclear Resister newsletter, which since 1980 has chroni...
Beto Coral
Released
Franklin Humberto Coral-Garrido, known as Beto Coral, is a Colombian lawyer and leftist activist and an ally o...
James A. Corbett
Released
James A. “Jim” Corbett was a Quaker rancher, philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Sanctuary Movement. Bo...
Thomas Costanzo
Released
Thomas Mario Costanzo, known online as "Morpheus Titania," was an anarchist and agorist activist in Mesa, Ariz...
Margo Cowan
Released
Margo Cowan directed the Manzo Area Council, a Tucson community organization that assisted undocumented immigr...
Hiawatha Davis Jr.
Released
Hiawatha Davis Jr. was a Denver civil-rights advocate who resisted the Vietnam War draft and served federal pr...
Mark Davis
Released
Mark Davis was an Earth First! activist from Prescott, Arizona and a member of the small affinity group that c...
Curt Von Einen
Released
Curt Von Einen was from Tucson, Arizona. Curt Von Einen was sentenced to two years in prison and served in Lea...
A. S. Embree
Released
A. S. Embree was an IWW officer and editor. A. S. Embree was convicted in Shoshone County, Idaho, on June 1, 1...
John Fife
Released
The Reverend John Fife was the pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona and a principal foun...
Patrick Michael Gerola
Released
Patrick Michael Gerola, age 56, was arrested 100 yards from a Florence AZ ICE prison parking lot on December 3...
Hiroshi Kamei
Hiroshi Kamei was incarcerated at Poston in Arizona during the wartime removal of Japanese Americans. After co...
Cody Andrew Kretsinger
Released
Cody Andrew Kretsinger, known online as recursion, was a LulzSec member involved in the 2011 intrusion into So...
W. H. Lewis
Released
W. H. Lewis was a miner and secretary of the Metal Mine Workers Indus- trial Union, Local 800, in Miami, Arizo...
Michelle Lunsky
Awaiting Trial
Michelle Lunsky, 33, of Mesa, Arizona, is an animal-rights activist and one of four co-defendants — alongside...
Tomas Martinez
Released
Tomas Martinez was prosecuted under United States wartime statutes of the World War I era (chiefly the Espiona...
Peg Millett
Released
Peg Millett (Margaret Millett) was an Earth First! activist from Prescott, Arizona and a member of the small E...
Balagoon Moyenda
Balagoon Moyenda was a federal prisoner and African Culture Workshop organizer at FCI Phoenix, Arizona. In a s...
Institutions in Arizona
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Arizona that appear in the census’s case files.
Hermosillo penitentiary
7 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, TucsonTucson, Arizona
3 cases
Arizona State PenitentiaryFlorence, Arizona
3 cases
Phoenix RRMPhoenix, Arizona
2 cases
Maricopa County Jail (4th Avenue)Phoenix, Arizona
1 case
USP TucsonTucson, Arizona
1 case
Coconino County Detention FacilityFlagstaff, Arizona
1 case
Federal Correctional Institution, PhoenixPhoenix, Arizona
1 case