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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.
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Elizabeth Ann Lentsch
Released
Elizabeth Ann Lentsch crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the...
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Sister Mary Dennis Lentsch
Released
Sister Mary Dennis Lentsch crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6...
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Philip Lester
Released
Philip Lester was one of eight Atlanta-chapter members of the Black Panther Party arrested on November 9, 1972...
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Edwin R. Lewinson
Released
Edwin R. Lewinson crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army S...
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Patrick Lincoln
Released
Patrick Lincoln crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months. Vi...
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John Patrick Liteky
Released
John Patrick Liteky was sentenced to two years in federal prison for SOA Watch protests at the Pentagon and at...
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Robin Lloyd
Released
Robin Lloyd crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army...
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Carolyn Long
Released
Carolyn Long was a 20-year-old Clark College student and a spokesman for the sit-in group seated at Rich's res...
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Sr. Kathy Long
Released
Sr. Kathy Long crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
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Rita Lucey
Released
Orlando peace activist involved in Pax Christi and the United Nations Association. Jailed in 1998 following th...
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Jason Lydon
Released
Jason Lydon crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School...
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Laura MacDonald
Released
Laura MacDonald crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Watch vigil to close th...
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Tom Mahedy
Released
Convicted in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia under 18 U.S.C. § 1382 (entering a militar...
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Carey Martin
Released
Carey Martin crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months.
Each...
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Linda Mashburn
Released
Linda Mashburn crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
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Lelia Mattingly
Released
Lelia Mattingly crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
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Gillian Rose Maurer
Released
One of seven people arrested July 29, 2022 at the unfinished Georgia State University Convocation Center while...
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Samuel Mays
Released
Samuel Mays (also spelled Mayes) was a white resident of the Cherokee Nation convicted on September 15, 1831 u...
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Pamela McBride
Released
Pamela McBride crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Scho...
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Sister Kathleen McCabe
Released
Sister Kathleen McCabe crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 mon...
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Eldson McGhee
Black Vietnam veteran sentenced to life plus five years for an alleged armed bank-robbery kidnapping despite n...
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Christopher McIntosh
Released
One of four Black protesters arrested at the Harris Neck, Georgia, land-reclamation protest against land seize...
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Elizabeth Anne McKenzie
Released
Elizabeth Anne McKenzie crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Se...
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William McLeod
Released
The Reverend William McLeod was superintendent of the Methodist mission in the Cherokee Nation. He had accompa...
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