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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.

Samuel Austin Worcester
Released
Samuel Austin Worcester was a Congregationalist missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign...
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Esmond Adams
Awaiting Trial
Stop Cop City defendant indicted in August 2023 under Georgia's RICO Act along with 60+ co-defendants for oppo...
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Fannie Aderhold
Released
Fannie Aderhold was indicted and held on $5,000 bond, charged under Georgia's insurrection law in 1934 — the s...
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Ralph W. Allen
Released
Ralph W. Allen was a SNCC worker and one of the "Americus Four", arrested on August 8, 1963 after a demonstrat...
B
Brooks Anderson
Released
Brooks Anderson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
H
Hercules Anderson
One of four Black protesters arrested at the Harris Neck, Georgia, land-reclamation protest; released on recog...
J
Joan Anderson
Released
Joan Anderson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
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W. G. Anderson
Released
Dr. W. G. Anderson was the leader of the Albany Movement, the broad desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia....
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Sonja Andreas
Released
Sonja Andreas crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months. Eac...
S
Sophia Aria
Released
One of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation Center while...
C
Carl Arnold
Released
Carl Arnold participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1963...
J
Judah Coleman Bailey
Released
Judah Coleman Bailey, 20, was indicted in Gainesville, GA with co-defendants Smallwood, Waller, Thompson, and...
E
Edith Balot
Released
Edith Balot crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
B
Bob Barber
Released
Bob Barber was a CNVA peace-walk supporter jailed at Albany during the January 1964 solidarity vigil.
K
Kevin Benderman
Released
Sergeant Kevin Benderman was a U.S. Army mechanic with the 3rd Infantry Division who served in the 2003 invasi...
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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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Ozone Bhaguan
Released
Ozone Bhaguan crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
J
Judy Bierbaum
Released
Judy Bierbaum crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
K
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, from Des Moines, Iowa, was indicted for circulating a speech by Senator Thomas E. Watson of...
C
Charles Booker-Hirsch
Released
Charles Booker-Hirsch crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to c...
W
William Borders
Released
The Rev. William Holmes Borders was a prominent Atlanta minister and president of the Love, Law and Liberation...
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Thomas Bottolene
Released
Thomas Bottolene crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...
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Kathleen Boylan
Released
Kathleen Boylan crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close t...

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