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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.

1,526Documented
39In custody
898Released
17Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in California

Where California’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 354 1970s 205 1960s 198 1910s 174 2020s 131 1980s 90

Documented cases

1,526 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Jack H. Moore
Twenty-two-year-old Fish Cannery Workers Union agent was arrested while sitting in his car outside the struck...
R
Robert Moore
Released
Robert Moore, called Bob Moore in the September 6 report, was arrested with fellow Santa Cruz Packing striker...
D
Donald Lee Moran Jr.
Donald Lee Moran Jr. was a California prisoner represented in the March 20, 2012 public petition to the United...
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Panfilo Moreno
Panfilo Moreno was one of four cantaloupe-strike prisoners denied habeas relief by Judge A. C. Finney in El Ce...
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Otis Morgan
Otis Morgan was individually named among San Diego Black Panthers arrested on July 16, 1969 while going to a b...
J
Joe Mori
Joe Mori, a farmworker, is named by Yushi Yamazaki (2020), printed p. 103 and note 42, among Japanese labor ac...
R
Roger Moss
Released
Roger Moss helped organize the CNVA Everyman anti-nuclear voyage and was imprisoned for contempt in 1962. Walt...
O
Otto Muller
Otto Muller is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Camp...
C
Carlos Munoz
Carlos Munoz, identified in contemporary reporting as United Mexican-American Students organizer, was jailed i...
A
A. M. Murphy
A. M. Murphy, identified as assistant secretary of the Pacific Marine Firemen, was arrested in San Francisco w...
A
Austin Craig Murphy
Released
Austin Craig Murphy appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists o...
J
James Murphy
James Murphy was named in the June22 LosAngeles dispatch about the previous night’s police raid on an unemploy...
M
Michael Murphy
Released
Michael Murphy was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio o...
G
George Mason Murray
Released
George Mason Murray was the Black Panther Party’s minister of education and an English instructor at San Franc...
K
Keijiro Nagahama
Keijiro Nagahama was a chauffeur and ILD activist. Yushi Yamazaki's 2020 study, printed p. 102 and notes 39–42...
G
George Nagura
George Nagura, identified as a Japanese worker acting as a labor juror at the El Centro trial, was arrested an...
B
Bill Nandris
Released
Bill Nandris was a British Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-miss...
F
Francis J. Nash
Released
Francis J. Nash was an IWW member from Sacramento. Francis J. Nash received a four-year prison sentence for gi...
J
Jack Nash
Released
Jack Nash was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in the mid-1920s, during the era of California's criminal...
R
Ray Nash
Ray Nash was one of the named defendants arrested in the September14, 1931 San Francisco City Hall unemploymen...
A
Apolinar Navarette Jr.
Apolinar Navarette Jr., also known as Paul Medel Navarette, was a California prisoner who pursued civil-rights...
H
Hermann Neibuhr
Hermann Neibuhr is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention...
C
Cornelius Nelson
Cornelius Nelson was named in the June22 LosAngeles dispatch about the previous night’s police raid on an unem...
E
Ellen Judith Nesend
Ellen Judith Nesend was among six people arrested in a Richmond, California house raid on February21,1976 and...

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
San Diego County JailSan Diego, California
13 cases