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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.
423Documented
3In custody
340Released
9Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Georgia
Where Georgia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2000s 126
1960s 81
1930s 55
2020s 40
1970s 34
1990s 24
Recent dashboard entries from Georgia
The newest published events and reporting located in Georgia, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Folkston ICE detainees launch hunger strike
Other
Reporter Sal Insinga assaulted and equipment damaged while covering a Cedartown protest
Arrest
Colby Williams arrested after four Cobb County Flock cameras were burned and a “DeFlock” sticker was found
Other
Flock worker calls police on InvestigateTV reporter filming public camera installation
Prosecution
Cop City activist Sam Tunick challenges federal prosecution over alleged phone wiping during a border search
Arrest
Five Black women arrested at Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race after a locked-arms "Not Another 250" action on the July Fourth course
Protest
Social Circle leaders rally at the state Capitol against a planned ICE detention center
Prosecution
Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly and Tommy Shad English were charged in a roughly $170 million scheme to smuggle export-controlled AI servers and chips to China through Thailand
Documented cases
423 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Mark Reeve
Mark Reeve is individually named in the Georgia nuclear-train report with six others as arrested at Montezuma...
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Tom Kline
Tom Kline is individually named in the Georgia nuclear-train report with six others as arrested at Montezuma i...
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Katy White
Katy White is individually named in the Georgia nuclear-train report with six others as arrested at Montezuma...
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Robbie Buller
Released
Robbie Buller appeared February 18, 1986 for the prior December 28 Kings Bay trespass. After a no-contest plea...
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Elisabeth Cheatham
Released
Elisabeth Cheatham was individually named among the Montezuma Five convicted of blocking a nuclear-weapons tra...
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Jack Chatfield
Jack Chatfield was a SNCC field secretary working on the Southwest Georgia Voting Project. The December 19, 19...
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Denis Joseph Adelsberger
Released
Denis Joseph Adelsberger was opposed to the Vietnam War while in the U.S. Army. After his imprisonment and und...
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Fannie Aderhold
Released
Fannie Aderhold was a Black Atlanta organizer and secretary of a local International Workers’ Order branch. Po...
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Linda Aguilar
Linda Aguilar was a University of San Francisco student who entered Fort Benning during the November 2002 Scho...
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Mrs. R. W. Alling
Mrs. R. W. Alling was one of four defendants held for a DeKalb County grand jury under Georgia’s insurrection...
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Brooks Anderson
Released
Brooks Anderson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
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Hercules Anderson
Released
Hercules Anderson was one of four Black land-reclamation protesters arrested by federal marshals at Harris Nec...
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Sonja Andreas
Released
Sonja Andreas crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to three months i...
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Sophia Aria
Released
Sophia was one of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation C...
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Carl Arnold
Released
Carl Arnold participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1963...
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Bob Barber
Released
Bob Barber was a CNVA peace-walk supporter jailed at Albany during the January 1964 solidarity vigil.
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Joyce Barrett
Joyce Barrett was detained during civil-rights demonstrations reported in May 1963.
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Mary Lou Benson
Released
Mary Lou Benson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced...
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Katherine Bjorkman
Released
Katherine Bjorkman crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
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David T. Blodgett
Released
David T. Blodgett was from Des Moines, Iowa. David T. Blodgett was indicted for circulating a speech by Senato...
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Jabez Bowen Jr.
Released
Jabez Bowen Jr. was a Georgia Superior Court judge who denounced slavery as an obstacle to the happiness and w...
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Gilmer Brady
Gilmer Brady is named in the June 1930 Labor Defender late bulletin, organizer for the American Negro Labor Co...
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Ellie Brett
Released
Ellie Melvin Brett was implicated in a series of arson incidents in metro Atlanta during 2020, including the b...
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Bo Brinson
Bo Brinson was a Black tenant farmer in Moultrie, Georgia. An October 20 report says a band deputized and led...
Institutions in Georgia
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Georgia that appear in the census’s case files.
DeKalb County JailDecatur, Georgia
39 cases
U.S. Penitentiary AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
36 cases
Lee County StockadeLeesburg, Georgia
36 cases
Fulton County JailAtlanta, Georgia
30 cases
USP AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
26 cases
Albany City JailAlbany, Georgia
18 cases
Georgia PenitentiaryMilledgeville, Georgia
11 cases
Atlanta City JailAtlanta, Georgia
8 cases