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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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Charles H. Highley
Released
Charles H. Highley was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
P
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...
V
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