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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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Charles H. Highley
Released
Charles H. Highley was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Philip Hilbish
Philip Hilbish was arrested on July 27, 1863.
Marshall identifies Hilbish as a Pennsylvania businessman and D...
J
Joe Hitiak
Released
Joe Hitiak was a miner in Donora, Pennsylvania, arrested during a raid on his home on December 16, 1927, and h...
W
W. W. Hitz
W. W. Hitz was a cigar-strike protester arrested after the July 26, 1934 demonstration outside the T. E. Brook...
C
Christopher Hodgkin
Released
Christopher Hodgkin was imprisoned at Allenwood as a conscientious or antiwar resister during the 1960s.
D
Donald Hoffman
Released
Donald Hoffman was imprisoned at Allenwood for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960s.
J
John Holcroft
Released
John Holcroft was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
J
Julius Hollis
Released
Julius Hollis was a Pennsylvania miner and National Miners Union striker prosecuted after the Pittsburgh-distr...
T
Thomas Holmes
Released
Thomas Holmes was a Young Communist League district organizer in Chester, Pennsylvania. He distributed unemplo...
W
Walter Holtsmith
Walter Holtsmith was an S. L. Allen Company worker and Farm Implement Workers Union striker in Philadelphia. T...
E
Edward Horacek
Released
Edward Horacek was one of ten workers arrested in a 1923 Pittsburgh red raid and indicted under Pennsylvania's...
L
Leroy Horlacher
Released
Leroy Horlacher was an IWW member and conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I. Arrested at Camp M...
D
David B. Hostetler
Released
David B. Hostetler was a Pennsylvania Mennonite conscientious objector. He did not report for induction at Cam...
G
Gerald Vincent Hoy
Released
Gerald Vincent Hoy was a Pennsylvania computer scientist involved in the Irish-American support movement. He p...
J
Jacob Hubler
Released
Jacob Hubler was a Grahampton resident arrested in December 1864, according to Marshall.
Marshall identifies...
A
A. Hudson
A. Hudson was a Marine Workers Industrial Union member arrested at a Philadelphia waterfront meeting organized...
D
D. S. Huffnel
D. S. Huffnel is named in Marshall in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsyl...
I
Israel Huffnel
Israel Huffnel is named in Marshall in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsy...
E
Earl M. Humphreys
Released
Earl M. Humphreys was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
J
John Hunt
Released
John Hunt was a Quaker minister and leader in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting who was one of the "Virginia Exi...
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Virginia Lee Hunter
Released
Virginia Lee Hunter joined the Hatfield’s Ferry smokestack protest against the Bush administration’s energy po...
J
John Husy
Released
John Husy was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in c...
J
John Hutsko
John Hutsko was arrested in June 1934 during resistance to an eviction in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. The Dail...
C
Christopher Saur II
Released
Christopher Saur II was a Germantown printer and German Baptist Brethren pacifist. Authorities imprisoned him...
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