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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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John Dean
John Dean, Communist Party organizer in Reading, Pennsylvania, was arrested February 22, 1936 while picketing...
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Dominick Dellapina
Dominick Dellapina was a defendant in the Bulger Block coal-strike prosecution in Washington County. The Novem...
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D. Dellspine
The November 24, 1931 report individually lists this National Miners Union strike prisoner at Allegheny County...
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Hugh Dempsey
Released
Hugh Dempsey was a Knights of Labor District Master Workman convicted in 1892 of conspiracy to poison strikebr...
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Rudolph Depiazzi
Rudolph Depiazzi was a worker whom the November 12, 1928 Daily Worker reports had actually been sent to Washin...
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David D. Derstine
Released
David D. Derstine was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Cour...
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Phillip Desch
Released
Phillip Desch was a Pennsylvania German participant in Fries’s Rebellion who was jailed for resisting the 1798...
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William Diehl
Released
William Diehl was a Pennsylvania coal-strike defendant in the Bulger Block case. He was convicted of assault a...
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Craig Michael Digangi
Released
Craig Michael Digangi, 27, of Erie, PA was sentenced to 16-36 months in state prison after pleading guilty to...
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Sylvio Dimino
Sylvio Dimino was a Washington County coal-strike defendant found not guilty of inciting to riot and rioting....
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William Dixon
William Dixon was one of two Black workers arrested in Philadelphia on March 26, 1931, for distributing leafle...
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M. Dizdar
Released
M. Dizdar was the International Labor Defense representative in Farrell, Pennsylvania. A worker correspondent’...
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Joe Doliner
Joe Doliner, a striker at Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company Mine No. 8 at Coverdale, reported that he and his w...
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Jacob Dolla
Released
Jacob Dolla was individually named among the labor and political prisoners actually confined at Western State...
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James Dolsen
Released
James H. Dolsen was a Pittsburgh Communist organizer and Daily Worker correspondent prosecuted under both Penn...
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John Donahue
Released
John Donahue was convicted of the December 2, 1871 murder of mine boss Morgan Powell at Summit Hill and hanged...
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Dennis Donnelly
Released
Dennis Donnelly was convicted in the September 1875 murders of mine boss Thomas Sanger and miner William Uren...
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Henry Drinker
Released
Henry Drinker was a Philadelphia merchant and Quaker (and husband of the diarist Elizabeth Drinker, whose jour...
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Nick Economos
Nick Economos was an unemployed worker visiting McKeesport from New York. The Daily Worker of September 8, 193...
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Charles Eddy
Released
Charles Eddy was a Philadelphia Quaker merchant. He was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — the roughly twenty prom...
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Thomas Todd Edwards
Released
Thomas Todd Edwards was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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Alfred Eisenstadt
Alfred Eisenstadt was identified as a photographer working for Fortune and Time in a July 9, 1936 McKeesport d...
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Steven Elliott
Released
Steven Elliott appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
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James Evans (1933 immigration detainee)
James Evans (1933 immigration detainee) was an immigration detainee actually held in Allegheny County jail in...
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