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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.

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Carolyn Long
Released
Carolyn Long was a 20-year-old Clark College student and a spokesman for the sit-in group seated at Rich's res...
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Rita Lucey
Released
Orlando peace activist involved in Pax Christi and the United Nations Association. Jailed in 1998 following th...
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Laura MacDonald
Released
Laura MacDonald crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil to close th...
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Tom Mahedy
Released
Convicted in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia under 18 U.S.C. § 1382 (entering a militar...
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Carey Martin
Released
Carey Martin crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months. Each...
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Gillian Rose Maurer
Released
One of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation Center while...
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Samuel Mays
Released
Samuel Mays (also spelled Mayes) was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 u...
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Pamela McBride
Released
Pamela McBride crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
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Sister Kathleen McCabe
Released
Sister Kathleen McCabe crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 mon...
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Eldson McGhee
Black Vietnam veteran sentenced to life plus five years for an alleged armed bank-robbery kidnapping despite n...
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Elizabeth Anne McKenzie
Released
Elizabeth Anne McKenzie crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Se...
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William McLeod
Released
The Reverend William McLeod was superintendent of the Methodist mission in the Cherokee Nation. He had accompa...
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Bill McNulty
Released
Former teacher and carpenter who helped establish community food services. Jailed in 1998 following the School...
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Lee Mickey
Released
Lee Mickey crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 30 days. 67-year-...
A
Abigail Miller
Released
Abigail Miller crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close th...
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Rachel Montgomery
Released
Rachel Montgomery crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months....
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Fred Moore
Released
Fred Moore visited the CNVA peace walkers and was jailed for two days after asking Albany police about their d...
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J. A. Moreland
Released
J. A. Moreland was indicted and held on $5,000 bond, charged under Georgia's insurrection law in 1934 — the sa...
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Tom Morgan
Released
Tom Morgan was sentenced to two years in prison. He served in Atlanta Penitentiary from April 14, 1919, to Nov...
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Donald W. Nelson
Released
Donald W. Nelson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
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Summer Nelson
Released
Summer Nelson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil to close the...
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Melanie Nadine Noyes
Released
One of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation Center while...
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Alan Nyysola
Released
Alan Nyysola participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 196...
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Michael David Omondi
Released
Michael David Omondi crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the...

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