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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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Morris Trasken
Released
Morris Trasken was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Gary Tucker
Defenestrator individually named these SCI Camp Hill Special Management Unit prisoners in its report of Januar...
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Patrick Tully
Released
Patrick Tully was convicted in the October 1868 murder of mining superintendent Alexander Rea and hanged at Bl...
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Mike Turk
Mike Turk was among the coal-strike defendants named in the July 24 Pittsburgh bulletin published in the Daily...
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Galen Tyler
Front Line reports that economic-rights protest leader Galen Tyler spent the night in jail with Cheri Honkala...
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Floyd Tyson
Released
Floyd Tyson was arrested with Charles Starocarski, Charles Skowronski and Violet Lynn at a strike meeting in M...
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Frederick Urban
Released
Frederick Urban, age 46, was arrested April 1995 in Scranton, Pennsylvania while driving a van containing expl...
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Vanora (Paterson silk striker, 1931)
A Paterson silk striker named Vanora was arrested after shouting against employers on the picket line,then poi...
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John Vargo
Released
John Vargo was a coal striker prosecuted in Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the 1931 coal strike. He w...
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Mike Vargo
Released
Mike Vargo was a coal striker prosecuted in Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the 1931 coal strike. Conv...
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Steve Vargo
Released
Steve Vargo was a coal striker prosecuted in Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the 1931 coal strike. He...
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Jerry Venable
Released
Jerry Venable was identified among imprisoned conscientious and antiwar resisters in contemporary peace-moveme...
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Jack Vill
Jack Vill was one of two young workers detained by Pennsylvania state police in Allentown in connection with t...
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Paul Vogel
Released
Paul Vogel was from eastern Pennsylvania. Paul Vogel began serving his prison sentence on December 18, 1918, i...
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Charles Vuich
Charles Vuich was an immigration detainee actually held in Allegheny County jail in 1933. The June 15 Daily Wo...
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Dionisio Vélez Avilés
Released
Dionisio Vélez Avilés was a Puerto Rican independence supporter imprisoned at Lewisburg. Executive Order 7731...
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Pete Wagner
Pete Wagner was a defendant in the Washington County, Pennsylvania mine-strike prosecution. The August 28, 193...
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Peter Wagner
Peter Wagner was named in the detailed Canonsburg coal-strike trial roster concerning the July19,1931 confront...
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Isaac Walker
Released
Isaac Walker was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the W...
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Mildred Walker
Page 3's Pittsburgh dispatch reports a constable arrested Mildred Walker for trespassing in a Tannehill Street...
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Phillip Wallash
Released
Phillip Wallash appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
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Nathan Joseph Waller
Released
Nathan Joseph Waller, 25, of Erie, PA was sentenced to 9 to 21.5 months in state prison and 60 days on electro...
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Michael Wallschlaeger
Michael Wallschlaeger was an anarchist radio producer arrested with Elliot Madison in the Pittsburgh G20 prote...
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Anne Walsh
Released
Anne Elizabeth Walsh was a Catholic antiwar activist jailed for civil contempt in 1971, alongside Sister Jogue...
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