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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.

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Katherine Brown
Released
Katherine Brown crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
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Thomas Brown
Released
Thomas Brown was a young English-born settler in the Georgia backcountry who refused to join the Patriot cause...
T
Tony Brown
Released
Tony Brown participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1963.
B
Brian Buckley
Released
Brian Buckley crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
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Charles Butler
Released
Charles Butler crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
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Elizur Butler
Released
Dr. Elizur Butler was a physician and ABCFM missionary in the Cherokee Nation. Convicted with Samuel Worcester...
D
Dorothy Calhoun
Dorothy Calhoun was a young Georgia worker whose death was taken up by the Labor Defender in 1937 as one of a...
J
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...
N
Nicholas Cardell
Released
Unitarian Universalist minister in Syracuse and peace activist. Jailed in 1998 following the School of the Ame...
A
Andrew Darnell Carlisle
Released
Andrew Darnell Carlisle, 29, of Atlanta was arrested on two counts of felony criminal interference with govern...
J
Jessica Carr
Released
Jessica Carr crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
J
Joe Carr
Released
Joe Carr, a nineteen-year-old West Virginia coal miner and Young Communist League and National Miners' Union o...
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Ron Carter
Released
Ron Carter was a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Panther Party whom police arrested twice in one we...
R
Ronald Carter
Released
Ronald Carter was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 1972...
T
Thomas Chism
Released
Thomas Chism, agent for the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors in Eatonton GA, was convicted April 26, 2000 of k...
T
Ted Clark
Atlanta civil-rights activist (Rev.), one of four Black protesters arrested at the Harris Neck, Georgia, land-...
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Leeanne Clausen
Released
Leeanne Clausen crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
J
Jonna Cohen
Released
Jonna Cohen crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil to close the U....
J
James Collins
One of the six 'Reidsville Brothers,' Black Georgia prisoners charged with killing a guard and two inmates dur...
N
Norma Collins
Released
Norma Collins, one of the Black Freedom Riders arriving by train from Atlanta, was among those arrested in Alb...
B
Bud Combs
Released
Bud Combs crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 3 months. Each ye...
A
Austin Copeland
Released
Austin Copeland was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's la...
D
David Corcoran
Released
David Corcoran crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced t...
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Jesse Crawford
Released
Jesse Crawford was a young Black worker repeatedly framed onto the Georgia chain gang who escaped and was reca...

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