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Pennsylvania
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 Pennsylvania.
836Documented
12In custody
544Released
4Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Pennsylvania
Where Pennsylvania’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 257
1700s 79
1910s 76
1920s 72
1960s 69
1800s 59
Recent dashboard entries from Pennsylvania
The newest published events and reporting located in Pennsylvania, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
About 100 protesters rally at Philadelphia City Hall for a data-center moratorium
Arrest
Five protesters arrested for failure to disperse after an attempted flag burning at Philadelphia's July Fourth celebrations
Arrest
Former Pennsylvania state representative Todd Eachus arrested after removal from an Amazon data-center hearing
Prosecution
Former Delco woman tied to the Zizians extremist group charged with her parents' murder
Prosecution
Expelled Pitt student in limbo ahead of Gaza encampment trial
Prosecution
Swarthmore 9 protesters urge Delco DA to drop trespassing case tied to pro-Palestinian encampment
Other
Police tracked anti-data-center speech as extremism
Protest
Southwest Philadelphia residents rally to save 925 affordable-housing units
Documented cases
836 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Rodney Alexander
Released
Rodney Alexander appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft...
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John F. Allen
Released
John F. Allen worked in Harry Truitt’s dental laboratory. Arrested during the 1950 New Kensington picketing di...
M
Mamie Allen
Mamie Allen was an Unemployment Council participant arrested during the police raid on a relief delegation at...
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Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews was a Washington County coal-strike defendant. The November 20 dispatch reports a six-month sen...
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Samuel Arbitman
Released
Samuel Arbitman was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Paul Babish
Released
Paul Babish was a Pennsylvania coal striker prosecuted in Washington County during the 1931 miners' strike. Co...
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Elizabeth Baer
Released
Elizabeth Baer was the recording secretary of the Philadelphia Socialist Party who, with Charles Schenck, was...
A
Angelo Baldvino
Angelo Baldvino was a coal miner whom the November 12, 1928 Daily Worker reports police beat at Export, Pennsy...
J
James Bant
International Ladies Garment Workers Union organizer James Bant was arrested in Allentown for organizing on th...
J
John Barnett
Released
John Barnett was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the W...
J
Jim Barr
Released
Irish republican supporter held at the Philadelphia Detention Center in connection with US federal charges ari...
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Ormond Barrett
Released
Marshall names Ormond Barrett among the four editors and proprietors of Harrisburg's Patriot and Union arreste...
A
Adam Barwinski
Adam Barwinski was a striking miner from Nanticoke. The Daily Worker, February 21, 1935, page 2, continuing a...
E
E. Basruk
E. Basruk is named in the January 1932 Labor Defender winter-aid roster under Others in Blawnox Workhouse. The...
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Barry Bassin
Released
Barry Bassin was identified among imprisoned conscientious and antiwar resisters in contemporary peace-movemen...
D
Donald Baty
Released
Donald Baty appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and c...
H
Henry Bauer
Henry Bauer was an anarchist prosecuted with the man printed Karl Kuold as an alleged accomplice of Alexander...
P
Paul Beach
Released
Paul Beach was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 196...
G
Gregory Beardall
Released
Gregory Beardall was identified among imprisoned conscientious and antiwar resisters in contemporary peace-mov...
D
Darrell Becker
Darrell Becker was president of Local 61 of the United Shipbuilders and Drydock Workers during the prolonged s...
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Joseph Beginsky
Released
Joseph Beginsky was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Fred Bell (Pennsylvania ILD organizer, 1931)
ILD organizer Fred Bell was arrested after opening the hunger-march meeting from a truck at the Blawnox workho...
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Angelo Bello
Angelo Bello was a seaman imprisoned at Philadelphia County Prison during the maritime strike. In a signed let...
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Sam Benato
Released
Sam Benato was an anthracite miner of the Pittston, Pennsylvania region jailed in the Eastern State Penitentia...
Institutions in Pennsylvania
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Pennsylvania that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort MifflinPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
48 cases
Allegheny County WorkhouseBlawnox, Pennsylvania
34 cases
Walnut Street JailPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
20 cases
Philadelphia GaolPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
18 cases
United States Penitentiary, LewisburgLewisburg, Pennsylvania
14 cases
Butler County PrisonButler, Pennsylvania
11 cases
FCI AllenwoodWhite Deer, Pennsylvania
10 cases
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas / SCI Pennsylvania state prisonsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
9 cases