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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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Dario Sanchez
Awaiting Trial
Dario Sanchez is one of the later-arrested defendants in the Prairieland prosecutions that grew out of the Jul...
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Jeff Schuerholz
Released
Jeff Schuerholz (sometimes spelled Scheurholz) was an ACT UP/Los Angeles activist who disrupted a Jerry Falwel...
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Hasan Shakur
Hasan Shakur, born Derrick Wayne Frazier, was executed by Texas on August 31, 2006 for the 1997 double murder...
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Dave Smith
In Exile
Dave Smith was a United States Army deserter who opposed the Vietnam War and reached Sweden, one of roughly a...
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Carlos Snodgrass
Carlos Snodgrass Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. Carlos Snodgrass was a 24th Infantry soldier hang...
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Henry Teal
Released
Henry Teal was sentenced to fifty years in Texas in a 1934–35 frame-up arising from the killing of a CWA relie...
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Egbert Aswell Trumble
Released
Egbert Aswell Trumble was a Rains County, Texas farmer, an official of the Farmers and Laborers Protective Ass...
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Joe Trumble
Released
Joe Trumble was a Rains County, Texas farmer, brother of E. A. Trumble and uncle of John William Trumble, conv...
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John William Trumble
Released
John William Trumble was born on September 24, 1888 at Point in Rains County, Texas, the son of E. A. Trumble,...
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Maukt Wand
Released
Maukt Wand, from Houston, Texas, was sentenced to fifteen months in prison and served in Atlanta Penitentiary...
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James Wheatley
James Wheatley Corporal of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Cpl. James Wheatley was hanged with twelve fellow 24th...
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Sylvia Diane Wilson
Released
Sylvia Diane Wilson was arrested in December 2005 for heckling Vice President Dick Cheney at a public event. S...
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Albin R. Wolfe
Released
Albin R. Wolfe was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Albert D. Wright
Albert D. Wright Pvt. Albert D. Wright of the 24th Infantry was sentenced to death in one of the later Houston...
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Risley W. Young
Risley W. Young Private of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Pvt. Risley W. Young of the 24th Infantry was hanged at...
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Rosley W. Young
Private Rosley W. Young was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged at Cam...
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Mara Youngdahl
Released
Mara Youngdahl was one of the "Moody Park Three," members of People United to Fight Police Brutality charged w...
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