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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.
1,527Documented
39In custody
899Released
17Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in California
Where California’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 354
1970s 205
1960s 199
1910s 174
2020s 131
1980s 90
Recent dashboard entries from California
The newest published events and reporting located in California, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Whistleblower alleges FBI targeted Los Angeles anti-ICE protesters
Prosecution
Charges dropped against five Stanford students over pro-Palestine protest
Prosecution
Judge dismisses all charges against the Stud Alley 18 arrested during San Francisco Pride weekend
Protest
Two injured at Teamsters protest outside Amazon warehouse; sheriff says motorcyclist intentionally struck crowd
Other
Five invited reporters held at gunpoint by Vandenberg Space Force Base security
Other
Photojournalist Steven Berumen shoved by federal officers while covering an LA immigration protest
Prosecution
Anti-ICE protester accused of pouring lighter fluid on CHP car is sentenced to prison
Prosecution
Westlake man sentenced for anti-ICE protest actions
Documented cases
1,527 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Robert Norbert Galvan
Released
Robert Norbert Galvan was born in Mexico and brought to the United States at age six in 1918. He lived in San...
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Tenola Gamble
Released
Young Black Oakland man convicted of a 1977 burglary despite his half-brother's confession to the crime and al...
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Alfonso Rico Garcia
Alfonso Rico Garcia was among six people arrested in a Richmond, California house raid on February21,1976 and...
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Guillermo Garcia
Guillermo Garcia, reported as 27 years old and living in El Monte, was named among defendants in the Los Angel...
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Pete Garcia (Ship Scalers vice-president)
Pete Garcia, vice-president of the San Francisco Ship Scalers Union, was arrested and charged with assault wit...
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David Gardner
Released
David Gardner was a member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker who was jailed following an antiwar action at th...
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Sam Gardner
Released
Sam Gardner was seized in the July 1934 vigilante raid on the International Labor Defense Workers' School in S...
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Pedro Gasbro
The July 9, 1934 Western Worker continuation identifies Pedro Gasbro among Marine Workers Industrial Union mem...
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Joseph Austin Gaskins
Released
Joseph Austin Gaskins was one of the eleven defendants in the San Diego County District Attorney's prosecution...
J
Jose Maria Gastelum
Released
Jose Maria Gastelum-Quinones was a Mexican-born Los Angeles worker who had lived in the United States since 19...
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Roy Geer
Roy Geer is named by Vic Johnson among labor prisoners at San Quentin in the December 22, 1938 Voice of the Fe...
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John L. Geibel
Released
John L. Geibel was from Sacramento, California. John L. Geibel was sentenced to five years in prison. He serve...
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Richard Gentile
Released
Richard Gentile, then 20 and from Hampton, Virginia, was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — th...
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George Geoffrian
George Geoffrian was detained on Angel Island in a deportation proceeding alleging subversive activities. The...
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Earl Gibson
Released
Earl Gibson was serving a five-years-to-life first-degree-burglary sentence in California beginning in 1965 an...
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R. A. Gibson
Released
R. A. Gibson was an IWW member. R. A. Gibson served a prison sentence in San Quentin. In June 1924, the IWW cr...
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James Gilbert
Released
James Gilbert, also known as Jim Gilbert, was a Navy conscientious resister confined at Treasure Island after...
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Hargit Singh Gill
Released
Hargit Singh Gill, age 22, was convicted in 2003 in the Eastern District of California for making false statem...
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William S. Gilmore
Released
William S. Gilmore was a conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Lawrence Gilson
Lawrence Gilson was a striker in the Venice celery fields, arrested April 26, 1936, on an alleged deadly-weapo...
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Ray Gogan
Ray Gogan, a nineteen-year-old Stockton Unemployed Council organizer, was arrested with a worker identified on...
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Suzanne Goldberg Savio
Released
Suzanne Goldberg was a graduate-student leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and a member of its steeri...
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Morris Goldman
Morris Goldman was arrested at the August 1, 1929 Los Angeles Plaza antiwar demonstration after bringing a tru...
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Henry Gomez
Henry Gomez, identified as an activist, was one of the East L.A. Thirteen arrested in the 1968 prosecution of...
Institutions in California
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in California that appear in the census’s case files.
San Quentin State PrisonSan Quentin, California
171 cases
Federal Bureau of Prisons
60 cases
Sharp Park Detention CampSharp Park, California
33 cases
Presidio StockadeSan Francisco, California
27 cases
Los Angeles County JailLos Angeles, California
26 cases
Folsom State PrisonFolsom, California
22 cases
San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterSan Quentin, California
16 cases
Metropolitan Detention Center, Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
14 cases