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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.
Anika D. Cunningham
Released
Anika D. Cunningham crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U...
Mary Dalton
Released
Mary Dalton was a twenty-year-old National Textile Workers' Union organizer. Mary Dalton was held in Fulton To...
Susan Daniels
Released
Susan Daniels crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the...
Russell De Young
Released
Russell De Young crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced...
Joseph DeRaymond
Released
Joseph DeRaymond crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...
Scott Dempsky
Released
Scott Dempsky crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
Kathleen Desautels
Released
Kathleen Desautels crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to clos...
Diane Dorsey-Bowens
Released
Diane Dorsey-Bowens was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after parti...
Ariel Ebaugh
Released
Georgia activist arrested December 13, 2022 during an early law enforcement raid on the Weelaunee forest in At...
Sr. Marge Eilerman OSF
Released
Sister Marge Eilerman OSF was a Sister of St. Francis sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for SOA Watch s...
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Released
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin was a Civil Rights Activist, Vietnam Veteran and Black Panther Party member who in 1969...
Moses Evans
Released
One of the six 'Reidsville Brothers,' Black Georgia prisoners selectively prosecuted and facing the death pena...
Graham Evatt
Released
Graham Evatt, 20, is an activist from Decatur, Georgia — the only Georgia resident among the six people arrest...
Mary Kay Flanigan
Released
Mary Kay Flanigan was a Franciscan sister and social worker active with Chicago’s 8th Day Center for Justice....
Toni Flynn
Released
Toni Flynn crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the U....
Sam Foster
Released
Samuel Foster crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
Robertiena Freeman-Fletcher
Released
Robertiena Freeman-Fletcher was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 aft...
Juanita Freeman-Wilson
Released
Juanita Freeman-Wilson was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after pa...
Marcus Garvey
Released
Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist leader who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Associatio...
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...
Peter Gelderloos
Released
Peter Gelderloos crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil to close t...
Jack Gilroy
Released
Jack Gilroy crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6...
Bertha Gober
Released
Bertha Gober was a nineteen-year-old Albany State College student, civil-rights organizer and later a member o...
Clare Grady
Released
Clare Therese Grady, age 59, KBP7 defendant; 12 months federal prison. Clare Grady is an American Catholic pea...
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