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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 California.
799Documented
19In custody
706Released
9Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in California
Where California’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 164
1970s 123
1930s 97
1960s 85
2000s 72
1950s 66
Documented cases
799 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Ed Condon
Released
Ed Condon was one of the railway shopmen convicted in the frame-up that grew out of the 1922 nationwide shop-c...
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Nora Conklin
Released
Nora Conklin was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal syndi...
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Philip Connelly
Released
Philip 'Slim' Connelly was a California labor journalist and former head of the Los Angeles CIO Council, and e...
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Frank Conner
Released
Frank Conner was a ship's oiler convicted of conspiracy in the 1936-37 Point Lobos frame-up, which supporters...
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Tom Connors
Released
Tom Connors, an IWW officer, served a prison sentence in San Quentin from June 2, 1925, to Februaiy 1927. Conn...
C
Clarence Copens
Black Marine co-defendant among the 'Camp Pendleton 14,' facing courts-martial over the 1976 confrontation wit...
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John J. Cornelison
Released
John J. Cornelison was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison during the era of California's criminal-syndical...
J
Jim Cosner
Released
Jim Cosner was one of the activists arrested when Santa Cruz police sparked a melee during a May 22, 2002 anti...
T
Terry Cotton
Released
Terry Cotton was one of the earliest members of the Black Panther Party, in the same founding-era cohort as Hu...
T
Therese Coupez
Released
White anti-imperialist activist imprisoned in federal custody at FCI Pleasanton on resistance-related charges...
J
Jesse Cover
Released
Jesse Cover was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed and...
J
Joe Coya
Released
Joe Coya was arrested in February 1924 with sixteen other IWW members at a union conference in Sacramento, Cal...
J
John Craig
Released
John Craig, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served i...
J
Jack Crane
Released
Jack Crane was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal syndica...
A
Archie Crawford
Released
Archie Crawford was a nineteen-year-old sentenced to thirty days and denied medical care in the San Francisco...
C
Charles Crowley
Released
Charles Crowley, an IWW member from Portola, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Que...
P
Patrick Croy
Released
Patrick Hooty Croy was a Shasta Indian sentenced to death for the 1978 shooting death of a Yreka, California p...
B
Benjamin Cruz
Released
Benjamin Cruz was a Guatemalan-born officer of the Furniture Workers Union in Los Angeles who in 1958 was serv...
C
Csaba John Csukas
Released
Csaba John Csukas, 39, of Daly City CA, naturalized US citizen who arrived as a refugee of the Bosnian war, wa...
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Emma Cutler
Released
Emma Cutler, one of a mother and daughter, was sentenced to serve ninety days and pay a $500 fine at the Los A...
S
Sarah Cutler
Released
Sarah Cutler, one of a mother and daughter, was sentenced to serve ninety days and pay a $500 fine at the Los...
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Waldemar Czapanski
Released
Waldemar Czapanski appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecuti...
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Michael Daniels
Released
Michael ('Mike') Daniels was a Greek-born co-editor of the left-wing Greek Tribune. In May 1959, though mental...
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Lonnie Darden
Released
Lonnie Darden was a member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland. In December 1974 he was among the Party memb...
Institutions in California
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in California that appear in the census’s case files.
San Quentin State PrisonSan Quentin, California
150 cases
Federal Bureau of Prisons
59 cases
San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterSan Quentin, California
23 cases
Presidio StockadeSan Francisco, California
22 cases
Los Angeles County JailLos Angeles, California
21 cases
Metropolitan Detention Center, Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
14 cases
San Francisco County JailSan Francisco, California
13 cases
Alameda County JailOakland, California
10 cases