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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.

P
Peter Gregonis
Released
Peter Gregonis participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1...
F
Frances Guzman Lago
Released
Frances Guzman Lago crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
A
Anne S. Hall
Released
Anne S. Hall was a pastor and anti-nuclear activist. She spent six days in Camden County Jail after a January...
C
Clare Marie Hanrahan
Released
Clare Marie Hanrahan crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sente...
B
Bobby Hardwick
Released
Bobby Hardwick was a Black inmate activist at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville who, The Black Panther re...
S
Sarah C. Harper
Released
Sarah C. Harper crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
D
Donald Stuart Harris
Released
Donald Stuart Harris was a SNCC worker and one of the "Americus Four", arrested with Ralph Allen and John Perd...
S
Sr. Caryl Hartjes
Released
Sr. Caryl Hartjes crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army S...
D
Don Haselfeld
Released
Don Haselfeld crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
K
Kit Havice
Released
Kit Havice participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1963.
R
Rachel Louise Hayward
Released
Rachel Louise Hayward crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sent...
W
Willa Mae Henderson
Released
Willa Mae Henderson, an Albany State College student whom the catalog describes as an innocent bystander swept...
A
Anne Herman
Released
Teacher and human-rights activist associated with the Zachaeus Catholic Worker House in Binghamton. Jailed in...
R
Rita Hohenshell
Released
Rita Hohenshell crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S....
J
John Honeck
Released
John Honeck crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
J
Jane Hosking
Released
Jane Hosking crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Arm...
W
William Houston
Released
William Houston crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced...
L
Lisa Hughes
Released
Lisa Hughes crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
F
Fr. Jim Hynes
Released
Fr. Jim Hynes crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Schoo...
J
Jackson Ingram
Jackson Ingram was a Black Georgian jailed in what his defenders called a racial frame-up on theft and false-i...
P
Paddy Inman
Released
Spokane teacher and peace activist involved in community support programs. Jailed in 1998 following the School...
T
Tyrone Jackson
Released
Tyrone Jackson participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 1...
B
Becky Johnson
Released
Becky Johnson was a Catholic Worker and School of the Americas protester. She was imprisoned in 2003 and descr...
C
Case Johnson
One of the six 'Reidsville Brothers' facing the death penalty over the July 23, 1978 Reidsville prison rebelli...

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