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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.
421Documented
4In custody
337Released
9Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Georgia
Where Georgia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2000s 126
1960s 78
1930s 55
2020s 41
1970s 34
1990s 24
Recent dashboard entries from Georgia
The newest published events and reporting located in Georgia, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Folkston ICE detainees launch hunger strike
Other
Reporter Sal Insinga assaulted and equipment damaged while covering a Cedartown protest
Arrest
Colby Williams arrested after four Cobb County Flock cameras were burned and a “DeFlock” sticker was found
Other
Flock worker calls police on InvestigateTV reporter filming public camera installation
Prosecution
Cop City activist Sam Tunick challenges federal prosecution over alleged phone wiping during a border search
Arrest
Five Black women arrested at Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race after a locked-arms "Not Another 250" action on the July Fourth course
Protest
Social Circle leaders rally at the state Capitol against a planned ICE detention center
Prosecution
Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly and Tommy Shad English were charged in a roughly $170 million scheme to smuggle export-controlled AI servers and chips to China through Thailand
Documented cases
421 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Webster Brooks
Webster Brooks was a Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade member in Atlanta. Revolutionary Worker, December 1...
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Katherine Brown
Released
Katherine Brown crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
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Thomas Brown
Released
Thomas Brown was a young English-born settler in the Georgia backcountry who refused to join the Patriot cause...
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Tony Brown
Released
Tony Brown participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1963.
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L. B. Browning
L. B. Browning is individually named among those arrested in an Atlanta raid on an interracial workers’ meetin...
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Brian Buckley
Released
Brian Buckley crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
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Elizur Butler
Released
Elizur Butler was a physician and ABCFM missionary in the Cherokee Nation. Convicted with Samuel Worcester on...
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Bobbie Jean Butts
Released
Bobbie Jean Butts was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after partici...
A
Andrew Darnell Carlisle
Released
Andrew Darnell Carlisle, 29, of Atlanta was arrested on two counts of felony criminal interference with govern...
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Jessica Carr
Released
Jessica Carr crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
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Ted Clark
Released
The Rev. Theodore Franklin Clark was an Atlanta civil-rights activist who joined descendants of Harris Neck, G...
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Jonna Cohen
Released
Jonna Cohen was a twenty-year-old Macalester College student from Denver when she crossed onto Fort Benning du...
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Norma Collins
Released
Norma Collins was one of the Black Freedom Riders arriving by train from Atlanta when Albany police arrested t...
B
Bud Combs
Released
Bud Combs crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 3 months.
Each ye...
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Austin Copeland
Released
Austin Copeland was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's la...
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Clyde Crammer
Clyde Crammer was a Black worker boarding with the Washburns. The August 10 Atlanta dispatch reports his kidna...
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Larry Darby
Larry Darby was a Purple Heart Vietnam veteran, Young Socialist and opponent of the Vietnam War whose confinem...
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Mary Dean
Released
Mary Dean crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S...
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Edward Delosier
Released
Edward Delosier was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's la...
A
Alton Deville
Released
Alton Deville was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 1972...
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Gina Dickhouse
Released
One of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation Center while...
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John Downer
John Downer was a Black defendant arrested in Elberton,Georgia in May1931 on a rape accusation. He was indicte...
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Mary Earley
Released
Former Presentation Sister, special-education teacher and Pax Christi activist. Jailed in 1998 following the S...
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Surry Eaton
Released
Surry Eaton was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's law fo...
Institutions in Georgia
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Georgia that appear in the census’s case files.
DeKalb County JailDecatur, Georgia
39 cases
U.S. Penitentiary AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
36 cases
Lee County StockadeLeesburg, Georgia
36 cases
Fulton County JailAtlanta, Georgia
30 cases
USP AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
26 cases
Albany City JailAlbany, Georgia
18 cases
Georgia PenitentiaryMilledgeville, Georgia
11 cases
Atlanta City JailAtlanta, Georgia
8 cases