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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.

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Cecily Jones
Cecily Jones was individually named among six anti-nuclear demonstrators who tied a “Stop Military Madness” ba...
S
Shirley Whiteside
Shirley Whiteside was individually named among six anti-nuclear demonstrators who tied a “Stop Military Madnes...
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Victor Poole
Bill Haywood’s memoir installment XLV on page 6 describes young Cripple Creek miner Victor Poole repeatedly co...
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Sherman Parker
Sherman Parker is individually named in Bill Haywood’s memoir installment XLV among Western Federation of Mine...
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Bill Davis (Cripple Creek WFM defendant)
Bill Davis is individually named in Bill Haywood’s memoir installment XLV among Western Federation of Miners d...
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Tom Foster (Cripple Creek WFM defendant)
Tom Foster is individually named in Bill Haywood’s memoir installment XLV among Western Federation of Miners d...
C
Charles Kennedy (Cripple Creek WFM defendant)
Charles Kennedy is individually named in Bill Haywood’s memoir installment XLV among Western Federation of Min...
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Dick Allander
Dick Allander was an unemployed organizer held in Trinidad, Colorado on a vagrancy accusation. The August 29,...
F
Felix Missael Alva
Released
On May 30, 2020 a Denver detective working downtown saw a white Jeep stop nearby with a male passenger produci...
C
Clarence Anderson (Denver FERA defendant)
Page 3's December 18 Denver dispatch individually names Anderson with Henry Brown, William Golden, James Jobes...
A
Ariel Attack
Ariel Attack is the public name used by a Denver anarchist prosecuted after windows at the Colorado Democratic...
F
Floyd Bartlett
Released
Floyd Bartlett was a participant in the Denver and Arapahoe County relief workers’ strike against relief cuts,...
G
George Bartley
Released
George Bartley appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
A
Arthur Bary
Released
Arthur Bary, the chairman of the Communist Party of Colorado, was among the Colorado Communists jailed for con...
I
Irving Blau
Released
Irving Blau was among the Colorado Communists jailed for contempt in Denver in 1948 for refusing to cooperate...
J
Jeremiah Rush Bowen
Jeremiah Rush Bowen was imprisoned in Colorado for an arson attack in Boulder opposing excessive urban sprawl....
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Harry I. Cohen (Denver United Front secretary)
Harry I. Cohen, United Front secretary in Denver, was arrested at the organization’s headquarters in July and...
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Ronald David Cole
Ronald David Cole, also Ron Cole, was prosecuted for four machine-gun offenses connected with the Colorado Fir...
R
Raymond Dennis
Released
Raymond Dennis was a leader of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers prosecuted in the fed...
C
Corey Donahue
Released
Corey Donahue was one of the most-arrested figures of the entire Occupy movement, an Occupy Denver organizer c...
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Peter Ediger
Peter Ediger was individually identified in this anti-nuclear imprisonment. The Palm Sunday report individuall...
A
Arthur Evans
Released
Arthur Evans was a Denver, Colorado Quaker physician and lifelong pacifist who refused all or part of his fede...
A
A. H. Floaten
A. H. Floaten was a Socialist active in the Rocky Mountain labor movement. The January 9, 1932 New Leader anni...
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Gary Garrison
Released
Gary Garrison was a mathematics teacher at Escuela Tlatelolco, the Chicano school operated by Denver’s Crusade...

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