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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.
Thomas Cooper
Released
Thomas Cooper was an English-born scientist, lawyer, and political radical who emigrated to the United States...
Alexander Cournos
Released
Alexander Cournos was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alexander Cournos was convicted at the mass IWW trial in...
Jordan Coyne
Released
Jordan Coyne, 25, threw rocks, bricks, pieces of concrete, and a tear gas canister at police officers and a po...
Talib Crump
Released
Federal weapons-of-mass-destruction / dynamite ATM-bombing scheme during June 2020 Philadelphia unrest. Senten...
Edward Cummings
Released
Edward Cummings was a computer science expert who frequently spoke as a panelist for the WBAI radio show, "Off...
Pat Cush
Pat Cush, a sixty-eight-year-old labor organizer described in the February 24, 1936 Daily Worker, was serving...
Sam Cutler
Released
Sam Cutler was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
Dylan Davis
Released
Dylan Davis was arrested in connection with Lancaster’s September 2020 racial-justice protest and spent Septem...
Bernhard Deutch
Released
Bernhard Deutch was a former Cornell student and University of Pennsylvania physics graduate student prosecute...
Vernell Dieudonne
Released
Vernell Dieudonne was a Lincoln University student arrested in Oxford, Pennsylvania on January 11, 1950 after...
Edward F. Doree
Released
Edward F. Doree was the secretary of the IWW Textile Workers Union in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Edward F. Do...
Consuewella Dotson Africa
Released
Consuewella Dotson Africa was a MOVE 9 member convicted in the August 8, 1978 Powelton Village confrontation t...
William Duane
Released
William Duane was an Irish-American printer and editor who succeeded Benjamin Franklin Bache at the Philadelph...
Thomas Duffy
Released
Thomas Duffy was convicted in connection with the July 1875 murder of Tamaqua policeman Benjamin F. Yost and h...
Barrows Dunham
Released
Barrows Dunham was chairman of Temple University's philosophy department. After he refused to answer most ques...
John Roedel Dunn
In Exile
John Roedel Dunn was a U.S. Army corporal from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and one of 21 American Korean War prison...
Robert Eaton
Robert Eaton was an Annapolis Quaker and conscientious objector imprisoned for refusing civilian work required...
James Egan
Released
James Egan was national secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Police arrested him on Marc...
Jogues Egan
Released
Sister Jogues Egan was a Roman Catholic nun and educator jailed for civil contempt in 1971 for refusing to tes...
Taylor Breann Enterline
Released
Taylor Breann Enterline is a racial-justice protester arrested in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in September 2020 a...
Cecilio Ferguson
Released
Cecilio "Chui" Ferguson, also known as Cecilio Ferguson-El, was a Black Liberation Army member and Republic of...
George H. Fisher
Released
George H. Fisher was the co-author with Clayton Woodworth of The Finished Mystery; one of the eight Watch Towe...
Miers Fisher
Released
Miers Fisher was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker lawyer and later a founder of the Bank of North America. He w...
Thomas P. Fisher
Released
Thomas P. Fisher was a tavern-keeper. Thomas P. Fisher was convicted in the December 1871 murder of mine boss...
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