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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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Chuck Simington
Released
Chuck Simington was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports fro...
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Mike Simmons
Released
Mike Simmons was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1...
E
Eli Sitkin
Released
Eli Sitkin joined an unemployed-workers delegation seeking to present demands at the American Federation of La...
A
Andy Skarupa
Released
Andy Skarupa was a Westland-district striker held in the coal roundup at the Blawnox Workhouse, one of the Nat...
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Mike Sklarski
Mike Sklarski was a militant coal striker imprisoned in the Allegheny County workhouse at Blawnox. The annual...
M
Mike Sklorski
Mike Sklorski is individually named in the November 24, 1931 Daily Worker roster of workers then serving sente...
M
Mike Sklovski
Released
Mike Sklovski was a Gilmore striker beaten and arrested during the National Miners' Union coal strike that swe...
C
Charles Skowronski
Released
Charles Skowronski was arrested with three other speakers at a strike meeting in Manayunk, Philadelphia, on Ma...
Y
Yvonne Small
Released
Political prisoner identified as a petitioner in the 1990 Special International Tribunal on Political Prisoner...
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David Smith
Defenestrator individually named these SCI Camp Hill Special Management Unit prisoners in its report of Januar...
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Mary Smith (Philadelphia, 1934)
Mary Smith was one of six anti-fascist pickets jailed after a Free Thaelmann demonstration before the German c...
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Robert T. Smith
Released
Robert T. Smith led clothing-store pickets in New Kensington in 1950. He served ten months following an affray...
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Ronald J. Smith
Released
Ronald J. Smith appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
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William Drewet Smith
Released
William Drewet Smith was a Philadelphia druggist. He was among those arrested in September 1777 and named in t...
W
William Smith
Released
William Smith, a Philadelphia broker (so distinguished in the records from the other men of that common name),...
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Harry Snyder (Danville eviction defense, 1934)
Harry Snyder was identified in the Daily Worker of October 23, 1934, page 3, as a target of police action afte...
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James Snyder
James Snyder was arrested in June 1934 during resistance to an eviction in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. The Dai...
J
Joe Soch
Joe Soch was a labor prisoner held in the Allegheny County Workhouse at Blawnox after the 1931 coal strike. Th...
J
Julius Soich
Released
Julius Soich was a Western Pennsylvania coal-strike prisoner supported by the International Labor Defense. The...
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Frank Sonosky
Frank Sonosky was individually named by National Miners Union secretary-treasurer Pat Toohey in the December 1...
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Kate Sorensen
Released
Kate Sorensen was an activist with ACT UP/Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Direct Action Group, arrested arou...
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Dennis Southward
Released
Dennis Southward appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
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William Spang
Released
William Spang was president of Fort Dukane lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers...
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Michael Sparks
Michael Sparks was among three workers arrested at the February 10, 1931 unemployment-relief demonstration in...
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