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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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George Tassels
George Tassels, also called George Tassel or Corn Tassel, was a Cherokee man taken from Cherokee territory int...
J
Jennifer Termon
Released
Jennifer Termon was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 19...
E
Eliza Thomas
Released
Eliza Thomas was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after participatin...
B
Benjamin F. Thompson
Released
Benjamin F. Thompson was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia...
J
James A. Thompson
Released
James A. Thompson was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's...
J
John Thompson
Released
John Thompson was an American Board (ABCFM) missionary in the Cherokee Nation. He was arrested twice by the Ge...
C
Cheryl Todd
Released
Black woman who, with Dessie Woods, was the target of an attempted rape by Ronnie Horne on June 16, 1975; char...
D
Derrlyn Tom
Released
Derrlyn Tom crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months.
Each...
B
Bruce Triggs
Released
Bruce Triggs crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months. Reent...
J
James J. Trott
Released
James J. Trott was a Methodist itinerant missionary in the Cherokee Nation who was arrested at least three tim...
A
Al Uhrie
Released
Al Uhrie was a CNVA peace-walk supporter jailed at Albany during the January 1964 solidarity vigil.
J
John Vanover
John Vanover was a worker whom a June 19, 1929 Macon dispatch identified as a victim of peonage on W. L. Arnol...
R
Ralph Verlaine
Ralph Verlaine, signing IWW card 229442 and Industrial Union 620, recounts forced confinement in a chain gang...
J
Jocelyn Villa
Released
Jocelyn Villa was arrested on June 14, 2025 at the No Kings and anti-ICE protest on Chamblee Tucker Road in De...
A
Alexander Walker
Workers World’s centennial account of the 1906 Atlanta massacre identifies Alexander Walker as one of the Blac...
A
Abby Walter
Released
One of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation Center while...
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Marvin Warren
Released
Marvin Warren crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
E
Edith Washburn
Edith Washburn is individually identified as one of eighteen defendants in the recent Atlanta Red arrests and...
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Walter Washburn
Walter Washburn was an electrician and husband of Edith Washburn, one of eighteen defendants in the recent Atl...
C
Charles Weaver
Charles Weaver was a Black Atlanta worker arrested in the October 1934 raids on private homes. The Daily Worke...
C
Clarence Weaver
Released
Clarence Weaver was a Black Atlanta organizer and president of the Painters and Plasterers Union. DeKalb Count...
G
Gloria Jean Breedlove Westbrooks
Released
Gloria Jean Breedlove Westbrooks was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 196...
J
John F. Wheeler
Released
John F. Wheeler was a printer associated with the Cherokee Phoenix press at New Echota, convicted on September...
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Joe White (Montezuma train protester)
Joe White began jail on June 2, 1986 for the Montezuma, Georgia nuclear-train blockade.
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