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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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Joe Susak
Joe Susak was a Washington County coal-strike defendant sentenced with Paul Babish and Pete Lesko. The Novembe...
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John Sutko
Released
John Sutko was an unemployed Philadelphia father whose seven children were tear-gassed when police tried to ev...
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O. Swain
O. Swain was a Marine Workers Industrial Union member arrested at a Philadelphia waterfront meeting organized...
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Anna Swetlet
Anna Swetlet was among three workers arrested at the February 10, 1931 unemployment-relief demonstration in Mc...
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Joseph Swilp
Joseph Swilp was a 25-year-old financial secretary of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania local at Nu...
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Ronald Sykes
Released
Ronald Sykes appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Joseph Szczepankiewicz
Joseph Szczepankiewicz was arrested in the Wilkes-Barre deportation investigation described in the 1920 congre...
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Ayoub Tabri
Released
Ayoub Tabri, 24, of Arlington, VA was charged for the arson of a Pennsylvania State Police SUV during civil un...
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George Tamaccio
Released
George Tamaccio appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...
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Mike Taras
Mike Taras was a Pennsylvania coal striker whose signed prison letter was published in Labor Defender in April...
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Mike Tarras
MikeTarras was arrested in the courthouse corridor with AdamGetto during the Canonsburg trial. The paper says...
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Joe Tash
Released
Joe Tash was a labor organizer arrested during July 1930 raids associated with the Pennsylvania anthracite str...
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John Tash
Released
John Tash was a labor organizer arrested during July 1930 raids associated with the Pennsylvania anthracite st...
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Arthur Taylor
Released
Arthur Taylor was a United Mine Workers of America organizer in the District 2 campaign that swept Somerset Co...
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Peter Thanos
Released
Peter Thanos was arrested during a second raid on labor and Communist offices in Scranton, Pennsylvania in Jul...
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Ben Thomas
Released
Ben Thomas was a Philadelphia machinist and Workers (Communist) Party representative. Ben Thomas was one of th...
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Harold Thomas
Harold Thomas was identified in the Daily Worker of October 23, 1934, page 3, as a target of police action aft...
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Mark R. Thomas
Released
Mark R. Thomas was from Vandergraft, Pennsylvania. Mark R. Thomas was a member of the IBSA and objected to mil...
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Richard Thomas
Released
Richard Thomas was a member of Philadelphia’s Black Unity Council and one of six men whom prosecutors identifi...
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David Thompson
Released
David Thompson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
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James Tod
Released
James Tod appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and con...
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Sonny Tongue
Released
Sonny Tongue was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1...
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Fanny Toohey
Fanny Toohey was an agitprop organizer of the Young Communist League in Pittsburgh. Page 2 reports that she an...
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Hillary Transue
In its account of Pennsylvania’s juvenile “kids for cash” scandal, Defenestrator described Hillary Transue rec...
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