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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 Hamilton
Released
John Hamilton was a colonel and one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvani...
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John Hargrove
The paper identifies John “Little Hot Rod” Hargrove as fourteen years old and reports his arrest near Sixth an...
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Stephen Harkey
Released
Stephen Harkey was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War...
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Anna Harkoff
Anna Harkoff chaired the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting at Avella, Pennsylvania where her husband George Harkoff and S...
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Alexander Harris
Released
Marshall identifies Harris as a Lancaster lawyer arrested while visiting York, Pennsylvania on February 2, 186...
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Caroline Hart
Released
Caroline Hart was a Young Communist League member prosecuted over an attempted antiwar street meeting in McKee...
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Bill Hartman
Released
Bill Hartman was a Philadelphia peace worker associated with the Atlantic Life Community. On July 5, 1982, he...
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Alfred Hassler
Released
Alfred Hassler was an editor and leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. His opposition to wartime conscri...
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Lloyd L. Hawkins
Released
Lloyd L. Hawkins appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft...
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John Hayden
Released
John Hayden appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and c...
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Russell Hayes
Released
Russell Hayes was a Vietnam-era conscientious resister who left compulsory civilian service at Friends Hospita...
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Frederick Heaney
Released
Frederick Heaney was a Pennsylvania German tailor from Milford Township, Bucks County, and — next to John Frie...
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Samuel Heaterly
Samuel Heaterly was the brother and housemate of William Heaterly, an unemployed Black man whom the Daily Work...
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Aden E. Heckman
Released
Aden E. Heckman was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World...
A
Adolph Heller
Released
Adolph Heller, director of the Workers School in Philadelphia, was arrested on July 10, 1940 in a purported bo...
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Gene Helm
Released
Gene Helm appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and con...
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Charles H. Highley
Released
Charles H. Highley was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Philip Hilbish
Marshall identifies Hilbish as a Pennsylvania businessman and Democratic legislative nominee violently arreste...
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Joe Hitiak
Released
Joe Hitiak was a miner in Donora, Pennsylvania, arrested during a raid on his home on December 16, 1927, and h...
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W. W. Hitz
W. W. Hitz was a cigar-strike protester arrested after the July 26, 1934 demonstration outside the T. E. Brook...
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Christopher Hodgkin
Released
Christopher Hodgkin was imprisoned at Allenwood as a conscientious or antiwar resister during the 1960s.
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Donald Hoffman
Released
Donald Hoffman was imprisoned at Allenwood for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960s.
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John Holcroft
Released
John Holcroft was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
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Julius Hollis
Released
Julius Hollis was a Pennsylvania miner and National Miners Union striker prosecuted after the Pittsburgh-distr...
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