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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.
Thomas Bottolene
Released
Thomas Bottolene crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...
Roy Bourgeois
Released
A Maryknoll priest and Vietnam veteran, Bourgeois became a leading critic of U.S. military policy in Latin Ame...
Fred Brancel
Released
Fredrick Brancel crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...
Joan C. Browning
Released
Joan C. Browning was a nineteen-year-old Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist and former Georgia...
Christian Bufford
Released
Christian Bufford was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade o...
Tina Busch-Nema
Released
Tina Busch-Nema participated in the 2006 School of the Americas protest and was imprisoned at Carswell in Texa...
Charles Butler
Released
Charles Butler crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
John H. Calhoun
Released
John H. Calhoun was the head of Atlanta's NAACP, jailed for contempt in 1956 for refusing to hand over the org...
Robert Call
Released
Robert Call crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
Nicholas Cardell
Released
Nicholas Cardell was a Unitarian Universalist minister in Syracuse and peace activist. Jailed in 1998 followin...
Joe Carr
Released
Joe Carr was a young West Virginia coal miner and Young Communist League organizer. He began mining at eleven,...
Ronald Carter
Released
Ronald Carter was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 1972...
Thomas Chism
Released
Thomas Chism, agent for the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors in Eatonton GA, was convicted April 26, 2000 of k...
Leeanne Clausen
Released
Leeanne Clausen crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
Stephen Douglas Clements
Released
Stephen Douglas Clements crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
Buddy Cochran
Buddy Cochran was a Vietnam veteran prosecuted after driving into a Ku Klux Klan rally in Plains, Georgia, on...
James Collins
Released
James Collins was one of the six Reidsville Brothers prosecuted over the July 23, 1978 rebellion at Georgia St...
Mark Colville
Released
Mark Peter Colville, age 56, KBP7 defendant; 18 months federal prison. Mark Colville is an American social jus...
Roy P. Connor
Released
Roy P. Connor was an organizer and delegate for the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, Local 400, from Ken...
David Corcoran
Released
David Corcoran crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced t...
Joanne Cowan
Released
Joanne Cowan crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Arm...
William Cowart
In Exile
William Cowart was a U.S. Army corporal from Dalton, Georgia, and one of 21 American Korean War prisoners who...
Jesse Crawford
Released
Jesse Crawford was a young Black worker imprisoned on Georgia's Fulton County chain gang under a one-to-three-...
Kenneth F. Crowley
Released
Kenneth F. Crowley crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
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