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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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Lin Romano
Released
Lin M. Romano was an advocate for the poor from Washington, D.C. and an Epiphany Plowshares participant. Milit...
J
Jacob W. Rose
Released
Jacob W. Rose was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
D
Douglas Roth
Rev. Douglas Roth was a Lutheran minister and labor-support activist in the Pittsburgh-area church and union c...
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Evelyn Roth
Evelyn Roth was a speaker for the Trade Union Unity League at McKeesport on September 1, 1930. The Daily Worke...
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Harry Roth
Released
Harry Roth was a Communist Party member arrested in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1931 while speaking at...
B
Ben Rubin
Released
Ben Rubin was a Communist Party organizer in Reading, Pennsylvania, a wounded Spanish Civil War veteran, and a...
G
George Rucher
Marshall names George Rucher in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania....
B
Bernard Rush
Released
Bernard Rush, a student at the Workers School in Philadelphia, was arrested with school director Adolph Heller...
J
John Ryan
John Ryan was the chief negotiator of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. On February 9, 1973, Judge D. D...
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Tess Ryder
Tess Ryder was a young member of the Young Communist League in Philadelphia. The Daily Worker of April 17, 193...
G
Gus Safis
Released
Gus Safis was a Young Communist League member prosecuted over an attempted antiwar street meeting in McKeespor...
G
Goust Safos
Released
Goust Safos was a convicted defendant in the McKeesport, Pennsylvania anti-war "riot" case of 1937. In 1937 Mc...
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Nick Samer
Nick Samer was one of three workers named on page 3 of the Daily Worker, October 15, 1931, as arrested and hel...
D
David Sand
David Sand, reported aged 23 and of Sixtieth Street near Pine, was individually named among eleven people arre...
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M. Sand
M. Sand was a Young Communist League member arrested at a Philadelphia waterfront meeting organized by the Com...
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Paul Sandargos
Released
Paul Sandargos was a coal miner from Scran ton, Pennsylvania. Paul Sandargos was convicted for distributing li...
A
Arnold Sandback
Released
Arnold Sandback was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports fro...
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Cornelia Sanders
Cornelia Sanders was one of two Black workers arrested in Philadelphia on March 26, 1931, for distributing lea...
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John Sara
John Sara was named among three people arrested at the Creighton coal-strike picket line in the June 19 Pittsb...
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Steve Savor
The November 24, 1931 report individually lists this National Miners Union strike prisoner at Allegheny County...
A
Archibald Scales
Released
Archibald Scales was a Lincoln University student arrested in Oxford, Pennsylvania on January 11, 1950 after h...
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Frederick Schadt
FrederickSchadt, a former deputy tax collector, was arrested for violation of the peace less than24hours after...
D
David Schaeffer
Released
David Schaeffer was a Pennsylvania German of Macungie (Millerstown) and a local leader of the anti-house-tax m...
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Richard Reginald Schell
Released
Richard Reginald “Reggie” Schell helped build the Philadelphia Black Panther Party and served as its defense c...
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