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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 Colorado.

161Documented
5In custody
101Released

Eras of repression in Colorado

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

1980s 30 1930s 26 1950s 20 1910s 11 2010s 10 1970s 10

Documented cases

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

Mary Sprunger-Froese
Released
Mary Sprunger-Froese is a Christian peace activist and war-tax resister associated with the Bijou Community in...
Peter Sprunger-Froese
Released
Peter Sprunger-Froese cut the outer fence and entered the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant grounds to pray on...
Maurice E. Travis
Released
CPUSA member who became secretary-treasurer and then president (1947) of the International Union of Mine, Mill...
Jesse Van Camp
Released
Jesse R. Van Camp was a Mine-Mill international representative prosecuted in the federal conspiracy case over...
Roy Vigil
Released
Roy Vigil was a Spanish-speaking sugar-beet worker convicted with two other young laborers of murdering farmer...
Jeanette Vizguerra
Released
Jeanette Vizguerra was named one of worlds 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.
Anne Waldman
Released
Poet, co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa, was active i...
Lauren R Watson
Released
Lauren R. Watson organized Denver’s Black Panther chapter. His prosecution for resisting and fleeing police wa...
Charles Wilson
Released
Charles Wilson was a leader of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers prosecuted in the fed...
Harold Zepelin
Released
Harold Zepelin was a Denver-born Communist arrested under the Smith Act in August 1954 during the McCarthy era...
Al Zook
Released
Al Zook was a father and grandfather active in the Denver Catholic Worker community in Colorado at the time of...
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Eliseo Jurado Fernández
Released
Eliseo Jurado Fernández is the partner of sanctuary activist Ingrid Encalada Latorre. Immigration agents arres...
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Edward Nicholas Laurent Flinton
Edward Nicholas Laurent Flinton, also identified by the FBI as Edward Soloman Katz and William Alfred Lemay, w...
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Jose Saiz
Jose Saiz appears in a prisoner-aid committee list published by Laisvė on December 19, 1953. The article ident...
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Ray Vigil
Ray Vigil appears in a prisoner-aid committee list published by Laisvė on December 19, 1953. The article ident...
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George Tamburello
George Tamburello was jailed following the August 9, 1983 anti-nuclear entry onto Rocky Flats in Colorado. At...
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Patrick Malone
Patrick Malone, a veteran Rocky Flats anti-nuclear track-sitting protester, was arrested twice in May 1983. Af...
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Jack Gibson
Jack Gibson was individually named with the other participant in an anti-nuclear railway-entry protest at Rock...
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Sue Anderson
Sue Anderson was individually named with the other participant in an anti-nuclear railway-entry protest at Roc...
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Margaret Kiefer
Margaret Kiefer was imprisoned in connection with nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons. Margaret Kiefer an...
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Esther Kisamore
Esther Kisamore was imprisoned in connection with nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons. Esther Kisamore an...
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Mary Ann Cunningham
Mary Ann Cunningham was individually named among six anti-nuclear demonstrators who tied a “Stop Military Madn...
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Julie Duffy
Julie Duffy was individually named among six anti-nuclear demonstrators who tied a “Stop Military Madness” ban...
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Patrick Buckley
Patrick Buckley was individually named among six anti-nuclear demonstrators who tied a “Stop Military Madness”...

Institutions in Colorado

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Colorado that appear in the census’s case files.

FDC EnglewoodLittleton, Colorado
4 cases
Jefferson County Jail
4 cases
Las Animas County Jail
4 cases
ADX FlorenceFlorence, Colorado
3 cases
Colorado State PenitentiaryCañon City, Colorado
3 cases
Mount San Rafael Hospital / Trinidad jail (militia custody)Trinidad, Colorado
1 case
Denver County JailDenver, Colorado
1 case
Colorado Department of Corrections
1 case