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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
Recent dashboard entries from Texas
The newest published events and reporting located in Texas, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
FBI Searches 40 Texas Homes in Probe Into North Korea’s Secret IT Network
Other
San Ygnacio residents temporarily halt disputed border-wall construction
Protest
Protesters rally outside the Pearsall ICE facility demanding release of Wilber Garces Perez
Arrest
Austin City Council candidate Misael Ramos arrested on a riot charge tied to an anti-ICE protest
Protest
Dozens rally at San Antonio City Hall against ICE operations and the shooting of Wilber Garces Perez
Arrest
Police deploy pepper balls and arrest protesters at a North Austin demonstration after an ICE shooting
Prosecution
EJ Carrion’s case delayed until November after court hearing is dismissed
Arrest
Luke Cordray arrested after two Flock cameras were disabled and marked with anti-Flock signs
Documented cases
260 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
S. J. Powell
Released
S. J. Powell was the secretary-treasurer of the Texas Farmers and Laborers Protective Association, part of the...
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 M. Rangel was a Mexican revolutionary and Partido Liberal Mexicano militant who, in 1913, led a small pa...
Elton Rankin
Released
Elton Rankin was one of two survivors of a 1976 Houston police shooting during a car chase that killed Overton...
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 was from Stanford, Texas. Z. L. Risley was president of the Texas Farmers and Laborers Protective...
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
Released
Carolyn Rodriguez is a local activist and copwatcher in Fort Worth Texas. Over the course of her work she foun...
Barney Lee Ross
Released
Barney Lee Ross was a twenty-three-year-old Black man prosecuted in Morris County, Texas, after being accused...
Fidel Salinas
Released
Fidel Salinas, a member of Anonymous, was sentenced to 6 months in prison and forced to pay $10,600.00 in rest...
David Samas
Released
Private David A. Samas was an Italian-Lithuanian-American U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas in 1...
Dario Sanchez
Awaiting Trial
Dario Sanchez is one of the later-arrested defendants in the Prairieland prosecutions that grew out of the Jul...
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago Santiago
Released
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago Santiago is a Zapotec immigrant-rights organizer and DACA recipient who has lived...
Hasan Shakur
Released
Hasan Shakur, born Derrick Wayne Frazier, was executed by Texas on August 31, 2006 for the 1997 double murder...
Ladon Sheats
Released
Ladon Sheats was a Christian pacifist and persistent nuclear-resistance activist born in 1934. After working w...
Emma Tenayuca
Released
Emma Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor leader, union organizer, and Communist activist in San Antonio, Tex...
Roy Tyler
Released
Roy Tyler was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth following conviction in one of the Houston ri...
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...
Sylvia Diane Wilson
Released
Sylvia Diane Wilson was arrested in December 2005 for heckling Vice President Dick Cheney at a public event. S...
Mara Youngdahl
Released
Mara Youngdahl was one of the "Moody Park Three," members of People United to Fight Police Brutality charged w...
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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Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi
In Custody
Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, an Iraqi refugee and lawful permanent resident, admitted providing techni...
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