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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.
Edward Smith
Released
Edward Smith crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
Otis W. Smith
Released
Dr. Otis W. Smith was a civil rights activist and the first African-American board-certified pediatrician to p...
Cheryl Sommers
Released
Cheryl Sommers crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. A...
Alexander H. Stephens
Released
Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a Georgia politician who served as Vice President of the Confederate States of...
Henry Storey
Released
Henry Storey, a Black World War veteran and Atlanta metal- and print-shop worker who chaired the American Negr...
Charley Tennenbaum
Released
Charley Tennenbaum is an activist who was arrested on April 28, 2023 in Cartersville, Georgia along with two c...
Bruce Thompson
Released
Bruce Thompson, 22, Gainesville GA Smallwood et al. co-defendant for the May/June 2020 police vehicle arson. P...
Carmen Trotta
Released
Carmen Trotta (born November 9, 1962) is an American pacifist and prominent activist in the Catholic Worker Mo...
Leonard Vioselle
Released
Leonard Vioselle, 20, is an activist from Macon, Georgia who was among the first five people arrested at the S...
Delveccho Waller
Released
Delveccho Waller Jr., 21, was indicted in Gainesville, GA with co-defendants Smallwood, Bailey, Thompson, and...
Natalie Hanna White
Released
Atlanta defendant prosecuted for the June 13, 2020 arson of the Wendy's restaurant at 125 University Avenue —...
Hosea Williams
SCLC leader and Georgia state representative whom The Black Panther Vol. 14 no.7 (1975) reports the Fulton Cou...
Reality Winner
Released
Reality Winner is a former U.S intelligence contractor who in 2017 leaked a classified intelligence report to...
Francis Woolever
Released
Francis Woolever crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...
Samuel Austin Worcester
Released
Samuel Austin Worcester was a Congregationalist missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign...
Carna Yipe
Released
Carna Yipe crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School o...
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Esmond Adams
Awaiting Trial
Stop Cop City defendant indicted in August 2023 under Georgia's RICO Act along with 60+ co-defendants for oppo...
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Fannie Aderhold
Released
Fannie Aderhold was indicted and held on $5,000 bond, charged under Georgia's insurrection law in 1934 — the s...
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Ralph W. Allen
Released
Ralph W. Allen was a SNCC worker and one of the "Americus Four", arrested on August 8, 1963 after a demonstrat...
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Brooks Anderson
Released
Brooks Anderson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
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Hercules Anderson
One of four Black protesters arrested at the Harris Neck, Georgia, land-reclamation protest; released on recog...
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Joan Anderson
Released
Joan Anderson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
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W. G. Anderson
Released
Dr. W. G. Anderson was the leader of the Albany Movement, the broad desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia....
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Sonja Andreas
Released
Sonja Andreas crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months.
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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