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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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George Kerb
Marshall names George Kerb in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. T...
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James Kerr
Released
James Kerr was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in...
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I. King
Released
I. King was a Black Pittsburgh unemployed-workers activist living at 233 E. Jefferson Street. The June 25 disp...
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Ben Kirschbaum
BenKirschbaum,a youth leader of the NationalTextileWorkersUnion,was arrested when he reformed the PrudentialMi...
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Joseph Klinitski
Joseph Klinitski was a 35-year-old active member of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania local at Numb...
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Nick Knezevich
Released
Nick Knezevich was a miner in Donora, Pennsylvania, arrested during a raid on his home on December 16, 1927, a...
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Mary Knowles
Released
Mary Knowles was a librarian employed by the Quaker Plymouth Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania, indicted for con...
J
John Kolar
Released
John Kolar was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions a...
M
Mary Korn
Mary Korn was one of six anti-fascist pickets jailed after a Free Thaelmann demonstration before the German co...
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Frank Kovach
Frank Kovach was among three workers arrested at the February 10, 1931 unemployment-relief demonstration in Mc...
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Andy Kovacovich
Andy Kovacovich was prosecuted under Pennsylvania's Sedition Act and convicted in June1924 according to Robert...
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K. Krietzor
K. Krietzor was a Young Communist League member arrested at a Philadelphia waterfront meeting organized by the...
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Wasily Kriworuk
Released
Wasily Kriworuk was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
W
William H. Kuenning
Released
William H. Kuenning was a World War II conscientious resister imprisoned at Lewisburg. He joined fellow prison...
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George Kuhnley
Marshall names George Kuhnley in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania...
J
John Kuhnley
Marshall names John Kuhnley in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania....
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Karl Kuold
Karl Kuold is the spelling printed in Horace B. Davis's1933 Homestead retrospective for an anarchist prosecute...
J
Joseph Kuzma
Released
Joseph Kuzma was one of the “Philadelphia Nine” defendants targeted as part of federal efforts to disrupt Comm...
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Roman Kuzma
Roman Kuzma was a Russian-born worker in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and a member of the United Anthracite Min...
N
Nich. G. La Casselle
Released
Nich. G. La Casselle was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Harold Lackett
HaroldLackett, a blind Black worker and later DailyWorker agent in EastLiverpool, was jailed in1926 for addres...
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Arthur Landis
Released
Arthur Landis — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installat...
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Dan Lane
Dan Lane was an Avella coal miner jailed in Washington County for $75.35 in court costs after a grand jury ref...
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Thomas Lapsley
Released
Thomas Lapsley was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...

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