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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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Kilthdigai
Kilthdigai is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antoni...
D
David Kopp
Released
David Kopp appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft a...
C
Conrad Kroschenski
Released
Conrad Kroschenski was from San Antonio, Texas. Conrad Kroschenski began serving a prison sentence on May 8, 1...
E
Earnest N. Lamb
Released
Earnest N. Lamb was a conscientious objector from Texas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
L
Lazaiyah
Lazaiyah is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio...
O
Oliver Lee Davis
The Militant identifies Oliver Lee Davis as a Texas prisoner serving a nineteen-year robbery sentence whose re...
D
Donald Lister
Released
Donald Lister was associated with Grassroots, Incorporated, a Dallas organization formed after a split in the...
L
Lonah
Lonah is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in...
D
David Marines
Released
David Marines appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
M
Martine
Martine is individually identified as an enlisted Apache scout in General Stanley’s October 11, 1886 account o...
E
Ernest McQueen
Released
Ernest "Buck" McQueen, born Ernest Johnson Jr., was a Vietnam-era Marine Corps deserter who walked away from t...
P
Pat McWhorter
Released
Pat McWhorter was one of the thirteen soldiers of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment hanged at Camp Travis,...
D
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza was a Texas prisoner accused of participating in the May 20, 1988 fire at the Ellis II prison s...
S
Shorty Merrill
Released
Shorty Merrill was a New Mexico hunger-march delegate whose signed account in the December 31, 1932 Daily Work...
F
Frank Miller
Released
Frank Miller was from Texas. Frank Miller was sentenced to iive years. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary f...
F
Frank Moormans
Released
Frank Moormans appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
M
Motsos
Motsos is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in...
M
Mary Dianne Muhlenkamp
Released
Sister Dianne Muhlenkamp, a Catholic religious sister of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ from Indiana, was...
N
Napi
Napi is individually named among the Apache prisoners under General D. S. Stanley’s charge at San Antonio in h...
N
Natchez
Natchez, identified in the Army correspondence as the son of Cochise and hereditary Apache chief, surrendered...
J
James R. Niles
Released
James R. Niles appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
H
Herman O'Rear
Released
Herman O'Rear was a farmer from Tyler, Texas. Herman O'Rear served in Atlanta Penitentiary.
W
Will O'Rear
Released
Will O'Rear was from Tyler, Texas. Will O'Rear was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Atlanta Pe...
C
C. O. Reeves
C. O. Reeves, an International Longshoremen’s Association member, was wounded and held on a murder accusation...
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