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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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Charles T. Schenck
Released
Charles T. Schenck was the general Secretary of the Socialist Party of Philadelphia. In August 1917 the local...
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Charles Schenck
Released
Charles Schenck, general secretary of the Socialist Party in Philadelphia, was convicted under the Espionage A...
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John Schmidt
Released
John Schmidt was a Quaker conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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Michael Schmoyer
Released
Michael Schmoyer was a Pennsylvania German participant in Fries’s Rebellion from the Macungie (Millerstown) ar...
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Michael Schreiber
Released
Michael Schreiber was identified in contemporary lists of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resi...
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Arthur Schrock
Released
Arthur Schrock appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
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Jared Schultz
Released
Jared Schultz, 30, ARA/Antifa member; LOVE Park 4 co-defendant in the July 23, 2007 FBI SUV damage. Felonies d...
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Irving Schwartz
Released
Irving Schwartz joined a delegation of unemployed workers seeking to present demands at the American Federatio...
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David Scott
Released
David Scott appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Joseph Scott
Released
Joseph Scott was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the W...
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Thomas Sedgwick
Released
Thomas Sedgwick was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marche...
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Frank Segar
Frank Segar, a Freiheit correspondent, was arrested in Pittsburgh while assisting children collecting miners’...
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Bert Seigel
Bert Seigel was a thirty-seven-year-old Bronx resident remanded to Union County jail on August 25, 1936 pendin...
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Joseph Shaffer
Joseph Shaffer was an immigration detainee actually held in Allegheny County jail in 1933. The June 15 Daily W...
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Charles Sharp
Released
Charles Sharp was convicted of the November 1863 murder of mine owner George K. Smith and hanged at Mauch Chun...
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Charles Shaw
Charles Shaw was an S. L. Allen Company worker and Farm Implement Workers Union striker in Philadelphia. The M...
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J. G. Shellenberger
Released
J. G. Shellenberger was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prose...
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Edward Sherwood
Released
Edward Sherwood was a young organizer in the National Miners’ Union coal strike of 1931 in Pennsylvania. He wa...
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Lewis Shindell
Marshall names Lewis Shindell in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania...
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Cornelius Shucker
Marshall names Cornelius Shucker in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylva...
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George Shucker
Marshall names George Shucker in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania...
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Henry Shucker
Marshall names Henry Shucker in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania....
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Raymond Sienna
Raymond Sienna was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective article...
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Heinz Silver
Heinz Silver, a Young Communist League member, was arrested the morning of June 28, 1934 in Philadelphia’s Mar...
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