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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.
Shirley Green-Reese
Released
Shirley Green-Reese was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after parti...
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...
Clare Marie Hanrahan
Released
Clare Marie Hanrahan crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sente...
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....
Donald Stuart Harris
Released
Donald Stuart Harris was a SNCC worker and one of the "Americus Four", arrested with Ralph Allen and John Perd...
Sr. Caryl Hartjes
Released
Sr. Caryl Hartjes crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army S...
Kit Havice
Released
Kit Havice participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1963....
John Heid
Released
John Heid is an anti-drone activist arrested at Beale Air Force Base for protesting unmanned aerial vehicle op...
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...
Angelo Herndon
Released
Angelo Herndon was a Black Communist organizer arrested in Atlanta on July 11, 1932, after helping organize Bl...
Rita Hohenshell
Released
Rita Hohenshell crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
John Honeck
Released
John Honeck was an SOA Watch participant who crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vig...
Jane Hosking
Released
Jane Hosking crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Arm...
William Houston
Released
William Houston crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced...
Richard Hunsinger
Released
Richard Hunsinger is an Atlanta-area protester who was arrested and federally charged in connection with a 202...
Fr. Jim Hynes
Released
Fr. Jim Hynes crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
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...
Steve Jacobs
Released
Steve Jacobs is an Iowa Catholic Worker who has been arrested repeatedly at Whiteman Air Force Base and Strang...
Case Johnson
Released
One of the six 'Reidsville Brothers' facing the death penalty over the July 23, 1978 Reidsville prison rebelli...
Ashton Bryant Jones
The Reverend Ashton Bryant Jones, a minister from San Gabriel, California, was imprisoned in Atlanta during pr...
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...
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