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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.

260Documented
28In custody
161Released
4Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Texas

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

1910s 49 2020s 37 1970s 36 1980s 28 1960s 25 2000s 20

Documented cases

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

Stanley J. Clark
Released
Stanley J. Clark was an attorney from Jacksonville, Texas. Stanley J. Clark was convicted at the mass IWW tria...
Steve Clemens
Released
Steve Clemens is a Mennonite-rooted peace and justice activist from Pennsylvania who registered as a conscient...
Charles Cline
Released
Charles Cline was an IWW organizer who in September 1913 was part of a group of radical labor activists arrest...
Charles Coder
Released
Charles Coder was a white co-leader of the Dallas unemployment movement in Dallas, Texas in 1931; after a demo...
Glen Collins
Released
Glen Collins participated in the December 2012 Keystone XL pipeline protest near Winona, Texas. The protest le...
Barry Cooper
Released
Barry Cooper is a former police officer who served as one of the nations top narcotics officers before becomin...
Bradley Neil Crowder
Released
Bradley Neil Crowder, age 23, was one of two Austin Affinity Group members caught making Molotov cocktails bef...
Mariah De Los Santos
Released
Mariah De Los Santos, age 23, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel; charged on Te...
Xaelyn Dunbar
Released
Xaelyn Dunbar, 19, was arrested in September 2025 and charged with making a terroristic threat over Facebook c...
Daniel Austin Dunn
Released
Daniel Austin Dunn is a concerned netizen and a reported member of the Boogaloo Movement who during the George...
Vince Scotti Eirene
Released
Vince Scotti Eirene was a Catholic Worker and Pittsburgh peace activist who adopted the surname Eirene from th...
Mohammad El-Mezain
Released
Mohammad El-Mezain was a senior figure in the Holy Land Foundation and became nationally known through the sam...
Jack Elder
Released
Jack Elder directed Casa Oscar Romero, a refugee shelter in San Benito, Texas, and participated in the Sanctua...
Pam Fadem
Released
Pam Fadem (Pamela Fadem) is a white anti-imperialist activist and a founding member of the John Brown Anti-Kla...
Lucy Fowlkes
Awaiting Trial
Lucy Fowlkes, of Weatherford, Texas, was arrested at her home on January 5, 2026 — the nineteenth Prairieland...
Claude Frost
Released
Claude Frost was a member of the Houston chapter of the Black Panther Party who, with fellow members James Aar...
Mickael Gedlu
Released
Mickael Gedlu, age 36, a former Marine Corps service member, was indicted in 2019 for threats against the Pres...
Ana Lucia Gelabert
Released
Ana Lucia Gelabert was born in central Cuba on July 6, 1938 and returned to the United States in 1961. On Dece...
Janette Goering
Awaiting Trial
Janette Goering is the eighteenth person arrested in the Prairieland prosecutions that grew out of the July 4,...
Jesús González
Released
Jesús González was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, captur...
Lewis Wayne Griggs
In Exile
Lewis Wayne Griggs was a U.S. Army soldier and one of 21 American Korean War prisoners who refused repatriatio...
Bartee Haile
Released
Bartee Haile was a member of the John Brown Revolutionary Party allied with Carl Hampton’s People’s Party II i...
Carl Hampton
Released
Carl Hampton was the founder and leader of People’s Party II, a Houston Black Power organization allied with t...
Thomas Coleman Hawkins
Released
Thomas Coleman Hawkins was a private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Soldier of the 24th Infantry hanged with t...

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
14 cases
Tarrant County JailFort Worth, Texas
9 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, TexarkanaTexarkana, Texas
5 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville
5 cases
Texas State Penitentiary, HuntsvilleHuntsville, Texas
5 cases
Fort Sam HoustonSan Antonio, Texas
3 cases
Prairieland ICE Detention CenterAlvarado, Texas
2 cases
Harris County District CourtHouston, Texas
2 cases