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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

Documented cases

836 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Raymond George
Raymond George, reported aged 42 and of Newtown Square, was individually named among eleven people arrested wh...
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Anna Gerlach
Anna Gerlach was arrested at work on May 6, 1929 after attending the Bethlehem Communist May Day celebration....
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John Getman
Released
John Getman was a Pennsylvania German tailor of Milford Township, Bucks County, who lived within about half a...
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Adam Getto
Released
Adam Getto was a National Miners' Union organizer clubbed and arrested at a march on the Ellsworth mine in Pen...
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Adam Ghetto
Adam Ghetto was among the miners imprisoned at the Allegheny County Workhouse at Blawnox after arrests during...
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Philip Giambattista
Released
Philip Giambattista was listed on the ILD's 1932 winter-relief roster of Western Pennsylvania class-war prison...
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Fred Gianizco
Released
Fred Gianizco was a miner from Wyano, Westmoreland County, who spoke at the District 5 miners’ convention repo...
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Thomas Gilpin
Released
Thomas Gilpin was a Philadelphia merchant, inventor, and member of the American Philosophical Society. He was...
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Harry Glanzow
Harry Glanzow, also printed Glantzow, was chairman of the shoe workers’ union at Laird Schober in Philadelphia...
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George Gordon (Philadelphia auto-body unionist)
President of Commercial Auto Body Workers’ Union Local No. 2, Gordon was among Kerstein-shop pickets arrested...
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Matt Goretta
Released
Matt Goretta was a miner in Donora, Pennsylvania, arrested during a raid on his home on December 16, 1927, and...
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Dave Gorman
Dave Gorman and his unnamed wife remained in jail at Wilkes-Barre on August 5, 1929 after refusing a ten-dolla...
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Jennie Gorman
Jennie Gorman was arrested in Wilkes-Barre and charged with sedition for distributing leaflets. Phil Frankfeld...
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L.A. Graber
Released
L.A. Graber was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Albert Lowery Grabill
Released
Albert Lowery Grabill was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Reginald Grantham
Released
Reginald Grantham was arrested in Philadelphia on September 28, 1967 during a RAM-related conspiracy investiga...
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Ed Greene
The November 24, 1931 report individually lists this National Miners Union strike prisoner at Allegheny County...
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Edgar Greene
Edgar Greene was named in the detailed Canonsburg coal-strike trial roster concerning the July19,1931 confront...
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Jesse Griffin
Released
Jesse Griffin was a Black worker prosecuted for inciting to riot while waiting on a relief line, with a leafle...
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M. Gross
M. Gross was a Young Communist League member arrested at a Philadelphia waterfront meeting organized by the Co...
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Antonin Gualberti
Released
Antonin Gualberti was an IWW member and a Socialist from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Antonin Gualberti was sentenc...
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Damont Hagan
Defenestrator individually named these SCI Camp Hill Special Management Unit prisoners in its report of Januar...
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Eric Wildcat Hall
Released
Eric Wildcat Hall is an Indigenous-rights activist sentenced to 35 to 75 years for his role in shipping arms t...
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J. A. Hamilton (Pittsburgh miners’ relief secretary)
J. A. Hamilton, secretary of the Pittsburgh Miners’ Relief Conference, was arrested as a “suspicious person” o...

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