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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.
Marcus Garvey
Released
Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist leader who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest Black...
Michael Lee Gayman
Released
Michael Lee Gayman crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
Clare Grady
Released
Clare Therese Grady, age 59, KBP7 defendant; 12 months federal prison. Clare Grady is an American Catholic pea...
Stephen Graham
Released
Stephen Graham was a Southern labor organizer who, after being acquitted twice, was re-arrested on a charge of...
Mario Guevara
Released
Mario Guevara is a Salvadoran-American journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia, and the founder of MG News (forme...
Marc A. Hall
Released
Marc Hall was an Iraq veteran and Army specialist who protested the military’s stop-loss policy through a rap...
Sarah C. Harper
Released
Sarah C. Harper crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
Martha Hennessy
Released
Martha Hennessy is an anti-war activist who was sentenced to 10 months in prison for her work as part of the K...
Rita Hohenshell
Released
Rita Hohenshell crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
Jane Hosking
Released
Jane Hosking crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Arm...
Richard Hunsinger
Released
Richard Hunsinger is an Atlanta-area protester who was arrested and federally charged in connection with a 202...
Rosa Lee Ingram
Released
Rosa Lee Ingram was the Black Georgia sharecropper widow at the center of one of the defining civil-rights cas...
Sammie Ingram
Released
Sammie Ingram was a son of Rosa Lee Ingram, the Georgia sharecropper widow, convicted with his mother and brot...
Wallace Ingram
Released
Wallace Ingram was sixteen years old when he was sentenced to death alongside his mother and younger brother i...
Vida Jones
Released
Vida Jones is a Georgia activist who was 18 years old at the time of the offenses. She was charged with federa...
Edgar Timmons, Jr.
One of four Black protesters arrested by U.S. marshals for occupying Harris Neck, Georgia, land taken from Bla...
Thomas Jurgens
Released
Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, is a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center (UGA Law School, class of 2019...
Marlon Kautz
Awaiting Trial
Marlon Scott Kautz is the chief financial officer of the Network for Strong Communities, the nonprofit that op...
A. D. King
Released
The Rev. A. D. King — Alfred Daniel King, younger brother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — was one of 79 people...
Ayla King
Awaiting Trial
The first defendant in the sweeping Georgia RICO indictment against Stop Cop City forest defenders to go to tr...
Chisom Kingston
Released
Atlanta defendant prosecuted for the June 13, 2020 arson of the Wendy's restaurant at 125 University Avenue —...
Rae Kramer
Released
Rae Kramer crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the U....
Elizabeth Ann Lentsch
Released
Elizabeth Ann Lentsch crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the...
Dimitri Leny
Released
Dimitri Leny is a French national who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Cent...
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