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Pennsylvania

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 Pennsylvania.

431Documented
6In custody
377Released
2Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Pennsylvania

Where Pennsylvania’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1700s 77 1910s 73 1930s 68 2020s 41 1950s 36 1970s 30

Documented cases

431 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Nathaniel Martin
Released
Nathaniel Martin was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and march...
R
Robert Martin
Released
Robert Martin was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched...
T
Thomas Mattox
Released
Thomas Mattox was a seventeen-year-old Black youth held in Philadelphia in 1943 as a fugitive wanted in Georgi...
M
Mike Matty
Released
Mike Matty was a coal miner from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, jailed at the Allegheny County Workhouse at Blawno...
T
Thomas McComb
Released
Thomas McComb was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched...
J
James McDonnell
James McDonnell was convicted of the November 1863 murder of mine owner George K. Smith at Audenried and hange...
J
James McFarlane
Revolutionary War major (4th Pennsylvania Battalion) and Mingo Creek militia commander during the Whiskey Rebe...
G
Gerry McGeough
Released
Gerry McGeough is an Irish republican who was extradited from Germany to the United States to face weapons cha...
J
John McGill
Released
John McGill was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in...
J
James McGovern Jr.
Released
James McGovern Jr., 59, ARA/Antifa member; LOVE Park 4 co-defendant in the July 23, 2007 FBI SUV damage. No-co...
T
Terrence McGuckin
Released
Terrence McGuckin was an ACT UP/Philadelphia activist arrested during the protests surrounding the 2000 Republ...
P
Peter McHugh
Peter McHugh was convicted in the October 1868 murder of mining superintendent Alexander Rea and hanged at Blo...
J
Jessica Joyce Miller
Released
Jessica Joyce Miller joined the Hatfield’s Ferry smokestack protest against the Bush administration’s energy p...
K
Khalif Miller
Released
Khalif Miller is a North Philadelphia father and small business owner indicted in October 2020 by Trump U.S. A...
O
Oliver Miller
Western Pennsylvania farmer and Whiskey Rebellion participant. Mortally wounded by federal-tax-inspector John...
T
Thomas Miller
Released
Thomas Miller was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
J
John Mitchell
Released
John Mitchell was a western Pennsylvania participant in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 who was persuaded to rob...
C
Charles E. Mohr
Released
Charles E. Mohr was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World...
J
Julio Monge Hernández
Julio Monge Hernández was a Puerto Rican independence supporter imprisoned at Lewisburg. Executive Order 7731...
C
Charles Moore
Released
Charles Moore was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World Wa...
C
Caleb Mountz
Released
Caleb Mountz was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the W...
J
John Munn
Released
John Munn was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in c...
T
Tom Myerscough
Released
Tom Myerscough was a National Miners' Union strike leader serving two years at the Blawnox Workhouse, one of t...
T
Thomas Nabried
Released
Thomas Nabried was a Communist Party leader in the Philadelphia region and one of the nine defendants swept in...

Institutions in Pennsylvania

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Pennsylvania that appear in the census’s case files.

Allegheny County WorkhouseBlawnox, Pennsylvania
23 cases
Walnut Street JailPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
20 cases
Philadelphia GaolPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
18 cases
Butler County PrisonButler, Pennsylvania
13 cases
United States Penitentiary, LewisburgLewisburg, Pennsylvania
13 cases
FCI AllenwoodWhite Deer, Pennsylvania
12 cases
SCI DallasDallas, Pennsylvania
12 cases
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas / SCI Pennsylvania state prisonsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
9 cases