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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.
302Documented
2In custody
283Released
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
302 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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James Collins
One of the six 'Reidsville Brothers,' Black Georgia prisoners charged with killing a guard and two inmates dur...
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Norma Collins
Released
Norma Collins, one of the Black Freedom Riders arriving by train from Atlanta, was among those arrested in Alb...
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Bud Combs
Released
Bud Combs crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 3 months.
Each ye...
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Austin Copeland
Released
Austin Copeland was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's la...
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David Corcoran
Released
David Corcoran crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced t...
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Joanne Cowan
Released
Joanne Cowan crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Arm...
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Jesse Crawford
Released
Jesse Crawford was a young Black worker repeatedly framed onto the Georgia chain gang who escaped and was reca...
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Kenneth F. Crowley
Released
Kenneth F. Crowley crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
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Anika D. Cunningham
Released
Anika D. Cunningham crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U...
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Mary Dalton
Released
Mary Dalton, a twenty-year-old National Textile Workers' Union organizer, spent six weeks in the Fulton Tower...
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Susan Daniels
Released
Susan Daniels crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the...
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Russell De Young
Released
Russell De Young crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced...
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Joseph DeRaymond
Released
Joseph DeRaymond crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sc...
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Mary Dean
Released
Mary Dean crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S...
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Edward Delosier
Released
Edward Delosier (recorded in some sources as Edward D. Losure) was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation con...
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Scott Dempsky
Released
Scott Dempsky crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
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Kathleen Desautels
Released
Kathleen Desautels crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to clos...
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Alton Deville
Released
Alton Deville was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 1972...
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Gina Dickhouse
Released
One of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation Center while...
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Mary Earley
Released
Former Presentation Sister, special-education teacher and Pax Christi activist. Jailed in 1998 following the S...
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Surry Eaton
Released
Surry Eaton was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's law fo...
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Ariel Ebaugh
Released
Georgia activist arrested December 13, 2022 during an early law enforcement raid on the Weelaunee forest in At...
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Sr. Marge Eilerman OSF
Released
Sister Marge Eilerman OSF was a Sister of St. Francis sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for SOA Watch s...
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Joyce Elwanger
Released
Joyce Elwanger crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
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