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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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John McGill
Released
John McGill was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in...
J
James McGovern Jr.
Released
James McGovern Jr., 59, ARA/Antifa member; LOVE Park 4 co-defendant in the July 23, 2007 FBI SUV damage. No-co...
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Terrence McGuckin
Released
Terrence McGuckin was an ACT UP/Philadelphia activist arrested during the protests surrounding the 2000 Republ...
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Peter McHugh
Released
Peter McHugh was convicted in the October 1868 murder of mining superintendent Alexander Rea and hanged at Blo...
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Will McQueen
The November 24, 1931 report individually lists this National Miners Union strike prisoner at Allegheny County...
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Bob Meli
Released
Bob Meli was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1971.
A
Abby Mellon
David Vermont’s September1991 EarthFirst! account individually identifies ExeterTownship environmental activis...
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Joel Meyers
Released
Joel Meyers was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
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Michael Michalen
Michael Michalen was a miner imprisoned at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania for activity in the 1921 miners' strike. T...
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John Midi
John Midi was individually named by National Miners Union secretary-treasurer Pat Toohey in the December 13, 1...
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Gust Mikades
Gust Mikades was a participant in a workers’ demonstration at McKeesport on September 1, 1930. The Daily Worke...
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Andrew Miller
Released
Andrew Miller appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
A
Andrew Miller (Clearfield County prisoner)
Marshall names Andrew Miller in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania....
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Eli Miller
Released
Eli Miller appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and co...
J
Jessica Joyce Miller
Released
Jessica Joyce Miller joined the Hatfield’s Ferry smokestack protest against the Bush administration’s energy p...
T
Thomas Miller
Released
Thomas Miller was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
J
John Mitchell
Released
John Mitchell was a western Pennsylvania participant in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 who was persuaded to rob...
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Shabaka Mnombatha
Defenestrator reported the arrests of Uhuru organizers Diop Olugbala and Shabaka Mnombatha during Philadelphia...
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Charles E. Mohr
Released
Charles E. Mohr was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World...
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Julio Monge Hernández
Released
Julio Monge Hernández was a Puerto Rican independence supporter imprisoned at Lewisburg. Executive Order 7731...
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Dave Monosson
Released
Dave Monosson was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from...
C
Charles Moore
Released
Charles Moore was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World Wa...
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Frances Moore
Frances Moore, union organizer in the Rosenau shirt-factory strike at Red Hill, was held in Montgomery County...
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Peter Moretti
Peter Moretti was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective article...

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