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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.
Gerry McGeough
Released
Gerry McGeough is an Irish republican who was extradited from Germany to the United States to face weapons cha...
Steve Mendola
Released
Steve Mendola was one of the three progressive Pittston, Pennsylvania anthracite miners framed with Sam Bonita...
Khalif Miller
Released
Khalif Miller is a North Philadelphia father and small business owner indicted in October 2020 by Trump U.S. A...
Frank Minnick
Released
Frank Minnick was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
Cara Mitrano
Awaiting Trial
Worcester, Massachusetts anarchist arrested October 19, 2024 with her partner Celeste Legere for allegedly cut...
Adam Moleski
Released
Adam Moleski was one of the three progressive Pittston, Pennsylvania anthracite miners framed with Sam Bonita...
Anthony Monteiro
Released
Anthony Monteiro is a Philadelphia scholar and organizer whose activism includes the Revolutionary Action Move...
Devin Montgomery
Released
Devin Montgomery, 24, was charged in Pittsburgh, PA with malicious damage to property of an organization recei...
Thomas P. Moran
Released
Thomas P. Moran was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
Richard Morano
Released
Richard Morano is a Pennsylvania activist who traveled to Toronto, Canada to protest the G-20 Summit in June 2...
Frank Moser
Released
Frank Moser was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Thomas Munley
Released
Thomas Munley was convicted of the September 1, 1875 murders of mine boss Thomas Sanger and miner William Uren...
Pete Muselin
Released
Pete Muselin was a member of the Communist Party from Woodlawn. Muselin, along with codefendants Tom Zima and...
Scott Nearing
Released
Scott Nearing was a radical economist, pacifist, and later a founder of the American back-to-the-land movement...
Steve Nelson
Released
Steve Nelson was one of the most prominent American Communists of the twentieth century. Born Stjepan Mesaroš...
Jamal Newman Jr.
Released
Jamal Newman Jr. is a Lancaster, Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to riot and related charges, including da...
Joan Nicholson
Released
At 36 the oldest of the eight Flower City Conspiracy defendants, from Philadelphia. Arrested Sept 6, 1970 in t...
Tyvarh Nicholson
Released
Tyvarh Nicholson, 29, was indicted in Erie on charges of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder...
Diop Olugbala
Defenestrator reported the arrests of Uhuru organizers Diop Olugbala and Shabaka Mnombatha during Philadelphia...
Kathryn Patterson
Released
Kathryn Patterson was a Franklin & Marshall College student arrested at Lancaster’s September 2020 protest fol...
Ray Peltz
Released
Ray Peltz was the Communist Party section organizer in Chester, Pennsylvania. In January 1930, police arrested...
James Pemberton
Released
James Pemberton was a Philadelphia merchant, legislator, and later a founder of the Pennsylvania Abolition Soc...
Edward Pennington
Released
Edward Pennington was a Philadelphia sugar refiner and Quaker. He was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — the rough...
Steven Pennycooke
Released
Steven Pennycooke was a defendant charged and later convicted in a federal gun case that prosecutors explicitl...
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