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Georgia

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 Georgia.

302Documented

2In custody

283Released

7Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Georgia

Where Georgia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

2000s 127 2020s 38 1960s 30 1970s 25 1990s 24 1930s 17

Documented cases

302 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Kamau Sadiki was a Black Panther Party member. In 1971 an Atlanta police officer was murdered while he sat in...

John Wade is a U.S. activist prosecuted in the federal cases brought after the 2020 George Floyd uprising. Act...

Federal arson of a Gainesville GA police car (June 2020). Sentence: 21 months federal prison. Verified via pub...

Jack Beaman is an activist from Georgia who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Trainin...

Kevin Benderman

Sergeant Kevin Benderman was a U.S. Army mechanic with the 3rd Infantry Division who served in the 2003 invasi...

A Maryknoll priest and Vietnam veteran, Bourgeois became a leading critic of U.S. military policy in Latin Ame...

Fredrick Brancel

Fredrick Brancel crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...

Christian Bufford

Christian Bufford was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade o...

Tina Busch-Nema

Tina Busch-Nema participated in the 2006 School of the Americas protest and was imprisoned at Carswell in Texa...

Robert Call crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...

Stephen Douglas Clements

Stephen Douglas Clements crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....

Mark Peter Colville, age 56, KBP7 defendant; 18 months federal prison. Mark Colville is an American social jus...

Roy P. Connor was an organizer and delegate for the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, Local 400, from Ken...

Joanne Cowan crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Arm...

Kenneth F. Crowley

Kenneth F. Crowley crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...

Anika D. Cunningham

Anika D. Cunningham crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U...

Joseph DeRaymond

Joseph DeRaymond crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...

Scott Dempsky crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...

Kathleen Desautels

Kathleen Desautels crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to clos...

Georgia activist arrested December 13, 2022 during an early law enforcement raid on the Weelaunee forest in At...

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin was a Civil Rights Activist, Vietnam Veteran and Black Panther Party member who in 1969...

Graham Evatt, 20, is an activist from Decatur, Georgia — the only Georgia resident among the six people arrest...

Toni Flynn crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the U....

Samuel Foster crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...

Institutions in Georgia

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Georgia that appear in the census’s case files.

DeKalb County JailDecatur, Georgia

40 cases

U.S. Penitentiary AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia

32 cases

Fulton County JailAtlanta, Georgia

30 cases

USP AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia

27 cases

Georgia PenitentiaryMilledgeville, Georgia

11 cases

Atlanta City JailAtlanta, Georgia

8 cases

Georgia State PrisonReidsville, Georgia

7 cases

Fulton Tower PrisonAtlanta, Georgia

5 cases

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