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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.

280Documented
2In custody
261Released
7Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Georgia

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

2000s 125 2020s 38 1960s 29 1970s 25 1930s 17 1800s 14

Documented cases

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

Dimitri Leny
Released
Dimitri Leny is a French national who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Cent...
Adele MacLean
Awaiting Trial
Adele MacLean is the chief executive officer of the Network for Strong Communities, the nonprofit that operate...
Dashun Martin
Released
Dashun Martin, 23, was indicted June 17, 2020 in Gainesville GA along with co-defendants Jesse James Smallwood...
John Mazurek
Awaiting Trial
John Robert Mazurek, 30, was arrested February 2, 2024 in Atlanta GA and charged with first-degree arson for a...
Elizabeth McAlister
Released
Elizabeth “Liz” McAlister (born November 17, 1939) is an American peace activist and former Catholic nun, long...
Bill O'Donnell
Released
Bill O'Donnell crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil to close the...
Luke O'Donovan
Released
Luke O'Donovan is a queer anarchist from Atlanta who was sentenced for stabbing the group of men (5 to 12 men)...
Patrick O'Neill
Released
Patrick O’Neill is an American Catholic peace activist and co-founder of the Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic W...
Dorothy Parker
Released
Dorothy Parker crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. A...
Savannah Patterson
Awaiting Trial
Savannah Patterson is the secretary of the Network for Strong Communities, the nonprofit that operates the Atl...
Victor Puertas
Awaiting Trial
Victor Puertas is an Indigenous forest defender from the Andean region of South America who became one of the...
Frederique Robert-Paul
Released
Frederique Robert-Paul is a Canadian activist from Montreal with ties to the Montreal Antifa network who was a...
Jesse Smallwood
Released
Federal arson of a Gainesville GA police car (June 2020). Sentence: 21 months federal prison. Verified via pub...
Otis W. Smith
Released
Dr. Otis W. Smith was a civil rights activist and the first African-American board-certified pediatrician to p...
Alexander H. Stephens
Released
Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a Georgia politician who served as Vice President of the Confederate States of...
Bruce Thompson
Released
Bruce Thompson, 22, Gainesville GA Smallwood et al. co-defendant for the May/June 2020 police vehicle arson. P...
Carmen Trotta
Released
Carmen Trotta (born November 9, 1962) is an American pacifist and prominent activist in the Catholic Worker Mo...
Delveccho Waller
Released
Delveccho Waller Jr., 21, was indicted in Gainesville, GA with co-defendants Smallwood, Bailey, Thompson, and...
Natalie Hanna White
Released
Atlanta defendant prosecuted for the June 13, 2020 arson of the Wendy's restaurant at 125 University Avenue —...
Hosea Williams
SCLC leader and Georgia state representative whom The Black Panther Vol. 14 no.7 (1975) reports the Fulton Cou...
Reality Winner
Released
Reality Winner is a former U.S intelligence contractor who in 2017 leaked a classified intelligence report to...
Samuel Austin Worcester
Released
Samuel Austin Worcester was a Congregationalist missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign...
E
Esmond Adams
Awaiting Trial
Stop Cop City defendant indicted in August 2023 under Georgia's RICO Act along with 60+ co-defendants for oppo...
F
Fannie Aderhold
Released
Fannie Aderhold was indicted and held on $5,000 bond, charged under Georgia's insurrection law in 1934 — the s...

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