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Hawaii

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 Hawaii.

189Documented
1In custody
168Released

Eras of repression in Hawaii

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

1940s 158 1950s 11 1920s 6 1970s 4 1980s 3 2020s 2

Documented cases

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

Ryuto Tsuda
Released
Ryuto Tsuda was a Honolulu Buddhist nun, born Kiyome Hirai and also known as Alice Kiyome Tsuda, Ryuto Hirai,...
Genpachi Edgar Tsushima
Released
Genpachi Edgar Tsushima was an Issei Honolulu resident, Hawaii Hochi reporter and Japanese language school tea...
Isami Ueoka
Released
Isami Ueoka, also recorded as Isamu Ueoka, was an Issei storekeeper living in Hanapepe, Kauai. JCCH records Ap...
Harry Minoru Urata
Released
Harry Minoru Urata was a Honolulu Japanese language teacher at Hawaii Chuo Gakuin. JCCH records his wartime ar...
George Willoughby
Released
George Willoughby was a Quaker pacifist and crew member of the Golden Rule, jailed in Honolulu in 1958 for def...
Yaichi Yamamoto
Released
Yaichi Yamamoto was an Issei pineapple laboratory worker from Lanai City, Lanai. JCCH records his birth year a...
Yozaemon Yamamoto
Released
Yozaemon Yamamoto was an Issei Koloa resident and employee of Kauai Soda Company. JCCH records his birth year...
Shigeru Philip Yano
Released
Shigeru Philip Yano was an Issei Honolulu resident and photographer for Hawaii Hochi newspaper. JCCH records h...
Kiyoshi James Yonemura
Released
Kiyoshi James Yonemura was an Issei Honolulu resident, building contractor and proprietor of Moiliili Building...
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Damian DeLonay
Damian DeLonay was jailed for several days pending arraignment after ramming a rented car into the military fa...
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Jim Snyder
Jim Snyder was physically released September 30, 1985, a few hours after Jim Albertini’s separate bail hearing...
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Fred Berg
Fred Berg was a US citizen living in Honolulu employed as a shop superintendent at Sears when detained during...
W
Willy Beyer
Willy Beyer was a naturalized US citizen and retired Honolulu catering and potato-chip business owner. His let...
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Richard Jeffrey Blair
Richard Jeffrey Blair, writing as R. Jeffrey Blair, was a Hawaii draft counselor and Vietnam War draft resiste...
K
Kiyoko Chinen
Released
Kiyoko Chinen was a Nisei resident of Naalehu, Hawaii, and the wife of Takahiko Chinen. JCCH records her birth...
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Takahiko Chinen
Released
Takahiko Chinen was an Issei automobile mechanic from Naalehu, Hawaii. JCCH records his birth year as 1891. Hi...
T
Takako Chinen
Released
Takako Chinen was born in May 1945 at Tule Lake Segregation Center into the family of Takahiko and Kiyoko Chin...
T
Theodore Takashi Chinen
Released
Theodore Takashi Chinen, later known as entertainer Teddy Tanaka, was a Nisei child from Naalehu, Hawaii, born...
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Creque (Hawaii soldier, 1925)
Creque (Hawaii soldier, 1925) was one of the soldiers individually named as arrested February 19, 1925, in the...
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Steve Domagalsky
Released
Steve Domagalsky was a soldier caught up in the 1925 Hawaii Communist-soldier affair at Schofield Barracks — t...
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Roy F. Ebert
Released
Roy F. Ebert was a US Army corporal arrested in the 1925 Hawaii Communist-soldier affair at Schofield Barracks...
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Helmut Emig
Helmut Emig was a naturalized US citizen and steward at Waialae Training School in Honolulu. His March 12, 194...
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Rebecca Ann Folley
Released
Rebecca Ann Folley, also known as Becca Waters, was incarcerated from April 3 through November 6, 2025 for onl...
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Masako Fujimura
Released
Masako Fujimura, also known as Mary Fujimura, was a Kauai-born Honolulu maid who returned to Hawaii in spring...

Institutions in Hawaii

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

Honolulu JailHonolulu, Hawaii
8 cases
Schofield Barracks
2 cases
US military custody
1 case
Oahu PenitentiaryHonolulu, Hawaii
1 case