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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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Karl Kuold
Karl Kuold is the spelling printed in Horace B. Davis's 1933 Homestead retrospective for an anarchist prosecut...
J
Joseph Kuzma
Released
Joseph Kuzma was one of the “Philadelphia Nine” defendants targeted as part of federal efforts to disrupt Comm...
R
Roman Kuzma
Roman Kuzma was a Russian-born worker in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and a member of the United Anthracite Min...
N
Nich. G. La Casselle
Released
Nich. G. La Casselle was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
H
Harold Lackett
Harold was a blind Black worker jailed in 1926 for addressing workers against capitalism in Midland, Pennsylva...
A
Arthur Landis
Released
Arthur Landis — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installat...
D
Dan Lane
Dan Lane was an Avella coal miner jailed in Washington County for $75.35 in court costs after a grand jury ref...
T
Thomas Lapsley
Released
Thomas Lapsley was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
D
Dominic Larefice
Dominic Larefice was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective artic...
J
John Laughery
Released
John Laughery was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched...
W
William Lawrence
Released
William Lawrence was arrested during a second raid on labor and Communist offices in Scranton, Pennsylvania in...
S
Sam Layman
Sam Layman was a Philadelphia needle-trades activist whose arrest during a union meeting at headquarters and s...
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Irving Lazar
Irving Lazar was arrested at a Workers Party open-air meeting at 13th and Reed Streets in Philadelphia on an a...
C
Christian Frank Lellig
Released
Christian Frank Lellig was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
H
Herman Lemke
Released
Herman Lemke was from eastern Pennsylvania. Herman Lemke served in Atlanta Penitentiary from December 30, 1918...
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Pete Lesko
Released
Pete Lesko was a coal striker prosecuted in Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the 1931 coal strike. He w...
A
Adolph Lewis
Adolph Lewis, reported aged 39 and of North Wanamaker Street, was individually named among eleven people arres...
K
Kenneth Lewis
Released
Kenneth Lewis appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
T
Theodore Lienkiewicz
Theodore Lienkiewicz was one of five young Glen Alden Shaft 20 miners and United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylv...
M
Michael A. Lindner
In Exile
Michael A. Lindner, who later used the name Michael Sutherland, was one of the Intrepid Four. The four enliste...
T
Theodore Lincoln Linkiewicz
Theodore Lincoln Linkiewicz was a 30-year-old president of Number 20 Tunnel Local of the United Anthracite Min...
C
C. Lippa
C. Lippa was the Philadelphia organizer of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union. The Daily Worker of...
P
Peter Lisle
Released
Peter Lisle was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the Wh...
J
John Little
Released
John Little was a labor organizer arrested during July 1930 raids associated with the Pennsylvania anthracite...
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