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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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Pedro Zenón Encarnacíon
Released
Pedro Zenón Encarnacíon crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
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Moses Evans
One of the six 'Reidsville Brothers,' Black Georgia prisoners selectively prosecuted and facing the death pena...
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John Ewers
Released
John Ewers crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6...
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Gerhard Fischer
Released
Gerhard Fischer crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
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Kathleen Fisher
Released
Kathleen Fisher crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months. Re...
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Mary Kay Flanigan
Released
Franciscan sister and social worker active with Chicago’s 8th Day Center for Justice. Jailed in 1998 following...
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Toni Flynn
Released
Toni Flynn crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the U....
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Kate Fontanazza
Released
Kate Fontanazza crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close t...
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Vienna Forrest
Released
Georgia activist arrested in December 2022 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta. Ch...
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Dan Fortson
Released
Dan Fortson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
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Samuel Foster
Released
Samuel Foster crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
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Cliff Frazier
Released
Cliff Frazier crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months.
Eac...
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Thomas Freeman
Released
Thomas Freeman was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 197...
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Thomas Gann
Released
Thomas Gann was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 under Georgia's law fo...
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Eloy Garcia
Released
Eloy Garcia crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 3 months.
Each...
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Floyd Gardner
Released
Floyd Gardner was an Iowa student active in protests against racial discrimination. He joined the 1962 Albany,...
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Christine Gaunt
Released
Christine Gaunt crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
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Michael Lee Gayman
Released
Michael Lee Gayman crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
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Chantilly Geigle
Released
Chantilly Geigle crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close...
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Peter Gelderloos
Released
Peter Gelderloos crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close...
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Jack Gilroy
Released
Jack Gilroy crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6...
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Michele Gloor
Released
Michele Gloor participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 19...
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Bertha Gober
Released
Bertha Gober, an Albany State College student, was among those arrested in Albany, Georgia, on December 10, 19...
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George Gordon
Released
George Gordon was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 1972...
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