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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.
840Documented
10In custody
552Released
3Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Pennsylvania
Where Pennsylvania’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 260
1700s 79
1910s 76
1920s 73
1960s 69
1800s 61
Recent dashboard entries from Pennsylvania
The newest published events and reporting located in Pennsylvania, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
About 100 protesters rally at Philadelphia City Hall for a data-center moratorium
Arrest
Five protesters arrested for failure to disperse after an attempted flag burning at Philadelphia's July Fourth celebrations
Arrest
Former Pennsylvania state representative Todd Eachus arrested after removal from an Amazon data-center hearing
Prosecution
Former Delco woman tied to the Zizians extremist group charged with her parents' murder
Prosecution
Expelled Pitt student in limbo ahead of Gaza encampment trial
Prosecution
Swarthmore 9 protesters urge Delco DA to drop trespassing case tied to pro-Palestinian encampment
Other
Police tracked anti-data-center speech as extremism
Protest
Southwest Philadelphia residents rally to save 925 affordable-housing units
Documented cases
840 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Joe Brill
Joe was arrested while speaking at an unemployed workers’ meeting at Philadelphia’s Labor Lyceum.
The Februar...
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Edith Briscoe
Edith Briscoe was elected youth organizer at the October 18, 1931 Pittsburgh district steelworkers’ conference...
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Louis Briskey
Louis Briskey was arrested during a Pittsburgh taxi-strike clash reported January 29. No exact admission or di...
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James Brislin
James Brislin was a 28-year-old compensation secretary of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania local a...
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Emma Brletic
Released
Emma Brletic participated in the 1933 Ambridge steel strike in Pennsylvania. She was convicted of inciting to...
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Albert Brown
Released
Albert Brown was arrested with Anna Burlak in the 1929 red raid on a May-Day meeting of the Ukrainian Workingm...
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Elijah Brown
Released
Elijah Brown was a Philadelphia Quaker shopkeeper and conveyancer and the father of the novelist Charles Brock...
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George Brown
George Brown was a young Black worker in Pittsburgh. Carl Price’s account in the Daily Worker, July 25, 1931,...
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Percy Brown
Percy Brown was a Coverdale miner whom the August 17, 1931 Daily Worker names among three people arrested as s...
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Willie Brown
Released
Willie Brown, also called William Brown, was a sixteen-year-old Black youth taken into custody in Philadelphia...
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Robert Brown
Robert Brown was a Philadelphia worker. A July 11 worker’s account says police jailed Price and Brown after an...
A
Annabelle Bucar
In Exile
Annabelle Bucar was a former Office of Strategic Services employee and administrative assistant in the U.S. Em...
F
Frank J. Buck
Released
Frank J. Buck was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Herbert Buck
Herbert Buck was identified in the Daily Worker of October 23, 1934, page 3, as a target of police action afte...
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Mike Budich
Mike Budich was one of the foreign-born workers identified as jailed pending deportation in an International L...
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Mike Burich
Mike Burich was confined in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh when the International Labor Defense book...
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Thomas Burney
Released
Thomas Burney was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
A
Aida Busani
Aida Busani was a picket in the Philadelphia knitgoods strike. The Daily Worker of April 11, 1934, page 3, rep...
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Edward Bush
Released
Edward Bush was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
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Donald Butler
Released
Donald Butler appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
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Francis B. Callahan
Released
Francis B. Callahan was arrested on September 6, 1970.
Known as Frank Callahan, from Philadelphia, one of the...
B
Benjamin Candee
Released
Benjamin L. Candee, CPS worker 001450, recalled leaving the Byberry alternative-service hospital assignment to...
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Carino
Carino is identified in the June29 Pittsburgh report as serving two years in BlawnoxWorkhouse for participatin...
B
Benjamin Lowell Careathers
Released
Benjamin Lowell Careathers was a Black Communist organizer active among Pittsburgh steelworkers. Federal agent...
Institutions in Pennsylvania
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Pennsylvania that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort MifflinPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
48 cases
Allegheny County WorkhouseBlawnox, Pennsylvania
34 cases
Walnut Street JailPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
20 cases
Philadelphia GaolPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
18 cases
United States Penitentiary, LewisburgLewisburg, Pennsylvania
14 cases
Butler County PrisonButler, Pennsylvania
11 cases
FCI AllenwoodWhite Deer, Pennsylvania
10 cases
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas / SCI Pennsylvania state prisonsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
9 cases