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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.
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Bishi
Bishi is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in...
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William D. Boone
Released
William D. Boone was sentenced to death in the second/third Houston court-martial. After clemency petitions, P...
W
William Breckenridge
Released
William Breckenridge was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged at Camp T...
W
Wagner Bridger
Released
Wagner Bridger was a physician drafted under the Doctors Draft Law who invoked the Fifth Amendment on a milita...
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Larnon J. Brown
Released
Larnon J. Brown was a corporal of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Cpl. of the 24th Infantry among the 13 soldiers...
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George Cardenas (Houston 12 defendant)
The Black Panther identifies this person in its captioned Houston 12 photograph. The article links the defenda...
R
Ramon Chacon
Released
Chicano activist known for organizing for the rights of Mexican people in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, arrested o...
C
Chapo
Chapo is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in...
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Adolfo Chavez
Adolfo Chavez was a Texas prisoner accused of participating in the May 20, 1988 fire at the Ellis II prison sh...
W
William Christiansen (Houston 12 defendant)
The Black Panther identifies this person in its captioned Houston 12 photograph. The article links the defenda...
C
Christopher Clarich
Released
Christopher Clarich was president of the Shrimp Peelers Union of UCAPAWA, convicted and sentenced to twenty ye...
W
Walter Collins
Walter Collins was a Black anti-draft organizer with the Southern Conference Educational Fund who organized po...
A
Alejandro Correa
Alejandro Correa, described as thirty-six and brother of Gallup miners Gregorio and Victorio, was jailed in a...
A
Alvah M. Davis
Released
Alvah M. Davis was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Ira B. Davis
Released
Ira B. Davis was among the soldiers convicted of mutiny and murder in the largest court-martial in U.S. milita...
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Luther Leo Denton
Released
Luther Leo Denton was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. C...
J
James Divins
Released
James Divins was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged at Camp Travis, n...
M
Murphy Dowouis
Released
Murphy Dowouis was a folk singer and Catholic Worker volunteer who refused military induction on grounds of co...
C
Carl Drieshner
The Wichita Falls account distinguishes CarlDrieshner’s February3,1919 guilty plea and60-day Wichita County Ja...
C
Carlos Duarte
Released
Carlos Duarte appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
B
Basman Elashi
Released
Basman Elashi, 50, Infocom logistics and credit manager. Sentenced October 2006 to 80 months federal prison.
B
Bayan Elashi
Released
Bayan Elashi, 51, Infocom CEO. Sentenced October 2006 to 84 months federal prison.
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Hazim Elashi
Released
Hazim Elashi, 56, was indicted December 17, 2002 in the Infocom case along with brothers Bayan, Ghassan, Basma...
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Ihsan Elashi
Released
Ihsan Elashi, also documented as Ihsan Elashyi or Sammy Elashyi, worked for Infocom in Richardson, Texas. A 72...
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