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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 Texas.
161Documented
23In custody
104Released
3Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Texas
Where Texas’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 49
2020s 29
2000s 20
1970s 19
2010s 12
1930s 8
Documented cases
161 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Dennis Mora
Released
Private Dennis Mora was a Puerto Rican U.S. Army soldier from New York stationed at Fort Hood, Texas in 1966....
Ramsey Muñiz
Released
Ramsey Muñiz was a civil rights attorney and two time candidate for Texas Governor who received 6% of the popu...
Pedro Perales
Released
Pedro Perales was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, capture...
Gavin Weslee Perry
Released
Gavin Weslee Blake Perry became publicly known through a threats prosecution, not through a widely documented...
LeRoy Pinkett
Released
LeRoy Pinkett Pvt. LeRoy Pinkett, age 23 at conviction, was found guilty of murder, mutiny, and assault with i...
S. J. Powell
Released
S. J. Powell, secretary-treasurer of the Texas Farmers and Laborers Protective Association, part of the Workin...
Emmanuel Quinones
Released
Emmanuel Quinones, 25, was arrested on May 30, 2020 in Lubbock, TX after brandishing a semi-automatic firearm...
Jesús M. Rangel
Released
Jesús María Rangel was a Mexican revolutionary and Partido Liberal Mexicano militant who, in 1913, led a small...
John H. Reagan
Released
John H. Reagan was the Confederate Postmaster General. Captured with Jefferson Davis's fleeing party in Georgi...
Z. L. Risley
Released
Z. L. Risley, from Stanford, Texas, was president of the Texas Farmers and Laborers Protective Association (pa...
Kimberly Rivera
Released
Kimberly Rivera (born c. 1982) is an American Iraq War resister and former U.S. Army Private First Class. Afte...
Carolyn Rodriguez
Carolyn Rodriguez is a local activist and copwatcher in Fort Worth Texas. Over the course of her work she foun...
David Samas
Released
Private David A. Samas was an Italian-Lithuanian-American U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas in 1...
Emma Tenayuca
Released
Emma Beatrice Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor leader, union organizer, and Communist activist in San Ant...
Roy Tyler
Released
Roy Tyler Pvt. Roy Tyler of the 24th Infantry was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth following...
Leonardo Vásquez
Released
Leonardo Vásquez was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, capt...
Mark Wilkerson
Released
Mark Wilkerson was an Iraq veteran who sought conscientious-objector status and refused another deployment. Af...
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
Released
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (aka H. Rap Brown) was chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and...
Antonio de Pío Araujo
Released
Antonio de Pío Araujo was arrested on September 14, 1908, in Texas and imprisoned at the Leavenworth Federal P...
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Lynette Sharp
In Custody
Lynette Sharp is one of the defendants charged in connection with the July 4, 2025 demonstration at the Prairi...
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Julio Zuniga
In Custody
Julio A. "Comrade Z" Zuniga, from San Antonio, is an anarchist prisoner-organizer in the Texas prison system,...
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James Aaron
Released
James Aaron was a member of the Black Panther Party in Houston, Texas. In July 1970 he was accused of assault...
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Servando F. Agis
Released
Servando F. Agis was a Mexican journalist and organizer associated with the Partido Liberal Mexicano’s anti-Dí...
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Matthew Almonte
Released
Matthew Almonte participated in the December 2012 Keystone XL pipeline protest near Winona, Texas. The protest...
Institutions in Texas
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Texas that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort Sam Houston Disciplinary BarracksSan Antonio, Texas
17 cases
Tarrant County JailFort Worth, Texas
10 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville
5 cases
Texas State Penitentiary, HuntsvilleHuntsville, Texas
5 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, TexarkanaTexarkana, Texas
4 cases
Fort Sam HoustonSan Antonio, Texas
4 cases
Prairieland ICE Detention CenterAlvarado, Texas
2 cases
Harris County District CourtHouston, Texas
2 cases