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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

Documented cases

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

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Dennis Donnelly
Released
Dennis Donnelly was convicted in the September 1875 murders of mine boss Thomas Sanger and miner William Uren...
H
Henry Drinker
Released
Henry Drinker was a Philadelphia merchant and Quaker (and husband of the diarist Elizabeth Drinker, whose jour...
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Nick Economos
Nick Economos was an unemployed worker visiting McKeesport from New York. The Daily Worker of September 8, 193...
C
Charles Eddy
Released
Charles Eddy was a Philadelphia Quaker merchant. He was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — the roughly twenty prom...
T
Thomas Todd Edwards
Released
Thomas Todd Edwards was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
A
Alfred Eisenstadt
Alfred Eisenstadt was identified as a photographer working for Fortune and Time in a July 9, 1936 McKeesport d...
S
Steven Elliott
Released
Steven Elliott appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
J
James Evans
James Evans (1933 immigration detainee) was an immigration detainee actually held in Allegheny County jail in...
H
Harry Fadel
Released
Harry Fadel was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
C
Conrad Fahnestock
Released
Conrad Fahnestock was the co-editor, with Benjamin Mayer, of the Harrisburger Morgenrothe, a Democratic-Republ...
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Richard Fallow
Released
Richard Fallow appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
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Louis Fazio
Released
Louis Fazio was listed on the ILD's 1932 winter-relief roster of Western Pennsylvania class-war prisoners — co...
L
Louis Fazzio
Louis Fazzio was named in the detailed Canonsburg coal-strike trial roster concerning the July19,1931 confront...
M
Mike Federoff
Mike Federoff was a labor prisoner held in the Allegheny County Workhouse at Blawnox after the 1931 coal strik...
S
Samuel Rowland Fisher
Released
Samuel Rowland Fisher was a Philadelphia Quaker merchant. He was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — about twenty p...
T
Thomas Fisher
Released
Thomas Fisher was a Philadelphia Quaker merchant and brother of Miers and Samuel Rowland Fisher. He was one of...
J
John Flanagan
Released
John Flanagan was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched...
D
Daniel B. Flory
Released
Daniel B. Flory was from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Daniel B. Flory was an * 'undenominational" believer and obj...
J
J. Montgomery Foster
Released
J. Montgomery Foster is named in Marshall among the four editors and proprietors of Harrisburg's Patriot and U...
M
Morris Franklin
Released
Morris Franklin was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
J
John H. Frantz
Released
John H. Frantz was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutio...
J
John Fries
Released
John Fries was a Pennsylvania Dutch auctioneer and militia veteran who led the resistance to the federal house...
A
Ann Froines
Released
Ann Rubio Froines was a civil-rights, antiwar and feminist organizer. As a Swarthmore student in November 1963...
C
Clifford “Lumumba” Futch
Released
Clifford “Lumumba” Futch was a Pennsylvania prisoner associated with Black Liberation Front prison organizing...

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