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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.
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Frank Johnson
Frank Johnson Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Private of the 24th Infantry among the soldiers who took...
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Lee Otis Johnson
Released
Lee Otis Johnson was a Houston civil-rights organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
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Otis Johnson
Prisoner sentenced to 17 years for allegedly stealing $17 and a TV set in Texas, listed by Amnesty Internation...
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Conrad Kroschenski
Released
Conrad Kroschenski, of San Antonio, Texas, began serving a prison sentence on May 8, 1918. He was sentenced to...
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Earnest N. Lamb
Released
Earnest N. Lamb was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Rodolfo Lozoya
Released
Rodolfo Lozoya was a Mexican-American shop steward and disabled Air Force veteran, in the U.S. 29 years, refus...
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Pat MacWharter
Pat MacWharter Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. Pat MacWharter of the 24th Infantry was the thirtee...
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Ernest McQueen
Released
Ernest "Buck" McQueen, born Ernest Johnson Jr., was a Vietnam-era Marine Corps deserter who walked away from t...
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Pat McWhorter
Private Pat McWhorter was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged at Camp...
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Stacey Merkt
Released
Stacey Lynn Merkt was a lay Methodist volunteer at Casa Óscar Romero, a Catholic refugee shelter in San Benito...
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Frank Miller
Released
Frank Miller, from Texas, was sentenced to iive years. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from May 19, 1919...
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Jesse Ball Moore
Jesse Ball Moore Corporal of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Cpl. Jesse Ball Moore was a 24th Infantry NCO hanged...
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Travis Morales
Released
Travis Morales was one of the "Moody Park Three," members of People United to Fight Police Brutality charged w...
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Mary Dianne Muhlenkamp
Released
Catholic religious sister from Indiana volunteering with the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. Arrested by the U....
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William Cleveland Nesbit
William Cleveland Nesbit Sergeant of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Sgt. William C. Nesbit was a senior NCO of Co...
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Herman O'Rear
Released
Herman O'Rear, a farmer from Tyler, Texas, served in Atlanta Penitentiary.
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Will O'Rear
Released
Will O'Rear, from Tyler, Texas, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Atlanta Penitentiary from...
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Abraham W. Penner
Released
Abraham W. Penner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Will D. Proctor
Released
Will D. Proctor was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Richard Racklin
Released
Richard "Doe" Racklin was an ACT UP/Los Angeles activist who disrupted President George H. W. Bush's address a...
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Rade Radekovitch
Released
Rade Radekovitch was a labor militant deported from Galveston, Texas on 12 September 1930 to Yugoslavia on a f...
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Elton Rankin
Houston youth grazed by a bullet and beaten by police after a car chase, then charged with five counts of atte...
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Carlos Adolfo Romero-Panchano
Released
Carlos Romero-Panchano was caught in an FBI undercover sting called Operation White Terror. A Colombian nation...
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Elkin Alberto Arroyave Ruiz
Released
A Colombian national arrested in an FBI sting code-named Operation White Terror, Elkin Alberto Ruiz acted as a...
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