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Georgia

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 Georgia.

301Documented
2In custody
282Released
7Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Georgia

Where Georgia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

2000s 127 2020s 38 1960s 30 1970s 25 1990s 24 1930s 17

Documented cases

301 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Kamau Sadiki
In Custody
Kamau Sadiki was a Black Panther Party member. In 1971 an Atlanta police officer was murdered while he sat in...
John Wade
In Custody
John Wade is a U.S. activist prosecuted in the federal cases brought after the 2020 George Floyd uprising. Act...
Judah Bailey
Federal arson of a Gainesville GA police car (June 2020). Sentence: 21 months federal prison. Verified via pub...
Jack Beaman
Released
Jack Beaman is an activist from Georgia who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Trainin...
Roy Bourgeois
Released
A Maryknoll priest and Vietnam veteran, Bourgeois became a leading critic of U.S. military policy in Latin Ame...
Christian Bufford
Released
Christian Bufford was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade o...
Mark Colville
Released
Mark Peter Colville, age 56, KBP7 defendant; 18 months federal prison. Mark Colville is an American social jus...
Roy P. Connor
Released
Roy P. Connor was an organizer and delegate for the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, Local 400, from Ken...
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Released
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin was a Civil Rights Activist, Vietnam Veteran and Black Panther Party member who in 1969...
Graham Evatt
Released
Graham Evatt, 20, is an activist from Decatur, Georgia — the only Georgia resident among the six people arrest...
Marcus Garvey
Released
Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist leader who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest Black...
Clare Grady
Released
Clare Therese Grady, age 59, KBP7 defendant; 12 months federal prison. Clare Grady is an American Catholic pea...
Stephen Graham
Released
Stephen Graham was a Southern labor organizer who, after being acquitted twice, was re-arrested on a charge of...
Mario Guevara
Released
Mario Guevara is a Salvadoran-American journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia, and the founder of MG News (forme...
Martha Hennessy
Released
Martha Hennessy is an anti-war activist who was sentenced to 10 months in prison for her work as part of the K...
Richard Hunsinger
Released
Richard Hunsinger is an Atlanta-area protester who was arrested and federally charged in connection with a 202...
Rosa Lee Ingram
Released
Rosa Lee Ingram was the Black Georgia sharecropper widow at the center of one of the defining civil-rights cas...
Sammie Ingram
Released
Sammie Ingram was a son of Rosa Lee Ingram, the Georgia sharecropper widow, convicted with his mother and brot...
Wallace Ingram
Released
Wallace Ingram was sixteen years old when he was sentenced to death alongside his mother and younger brother i...
Vida Jones
Released
Vida Jones is a Georgia activist who was 18 years old at the time of the offenses. She was charged with federa...
Edgar Timmons, Jr.
One of four Black protesters arrested by U.S. marshals for occupying Harris Neck, Georgia, land taken from Bla...
Thomas Jurgens
Released
Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, is a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center (UGA Law School, class of 2019...
Marlon Kautz
Awaiting Trial
Marlon Scott Kautz is the chief financial officer of the Network for Strong Communities, the nonprofit that op...
A. D. King
Released
The Rev. A. D. King — Alfred Daniel King, younger brother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — was one of 79 people...

Institutions in Georgia

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Georgia that appear in the census’s case files.

DeKalb County JailDecatur, Georgia
40 cases
U.S. Penitentiary AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
32 cases
Fulton County JailAtlanta, Georgia
30 cases
USP AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
27 cases
Georgia PenitentiaryMilledgeville, Georgia
11 cases
Atlanta City JailAtlanta, Georgia
8 cases
Georgia State PrisonReidsville, Georgia
7 cases
Fulton Tower PrisonAtlanta, Georgia
5 cases