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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.
Robin Lloyd
Released
Robin Lloyd crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
Sr. Kathy Long
Released
Sr. Kathy Long crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
Jason Lydon
Released
Jason Lydon crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
Adele MacLean
Awaiting Trial
Adele MacLean is the chief executive officer of the Network for Strong Communities, the nonprofit that operate...
Dashun Martin
Released
Dashun Martin, 23, was indicted June 17, 2020 in Gainesville GA along with co-defendants Jesse James Smallwood...
Linda Mashburn
Released
Linda Mashburn crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
Lelia Mattingly
Released
Lelia Mattingly crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
John Mazurek
Awaiting Trial
John Robert Mazurek, 30, was arrested February 2, 2024 in Atlanta GA and charged with first-degree arson for a...
Elizabeth McAlister
Released
Elizabeth “Liz” McAlister (born November 17, 1939) is an American peace activist and former Catholic nun, long...
Christopher McIntosh
Released
One of four Black protesters arrested at the Harris Neck, Georgia, land-reclamation protest against land seize...
Herbert Newton
Released
Herbert Newton, a Black national organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress born in Boston to a family for...
Bill O'Donnell
Released
Bill O'Donnell crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil to close the...
Luke O'Donovan
Released
Luke O'Donovan is a queer anarchist from Atlanta who was sentenced for stabbing the group of men (5 to 12 men)...
Patrick O'Neill
Released
Patrick O’Neill is an American Catholic peace activist and co-founder of the Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic W...
Dorothy Parker
Released
Dorothy Parker crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. A...
Savannah Patterson
Awaiting Trial
Savannah Patterson is the secretary of the Network for Strong Communities, the nonprofit that operates the Atl...
Victor Puertas
Awaiting Trial
Victor Puertas is an Indigenous forest defender from the Andean region of South America who became one of the...
Frederique Robert-Paul
Released
Frederique Robert-Paul is a Canadian activist from Montreal with ties to the Montreal Antifa network who was a...
Augustine Roddy
Released
Augustine Roddy crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
Judith Ruland
Released
Judith Ruland crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Ar...
Scott Schaeffer-Duffy
Released
Scott Schaeffer-Duffy crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 3 mont...
Laura Slattery
Released
Laura Slattery crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months.
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Jesse Smallwood
Released
Federal arson of a Gainesville GA police car (June 2020). Sentence: 21 months federal prison. Verified via pub...
Donte Smith
Released
Donte Smith crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
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