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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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David Lock
Released
David Lock was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in...
J
Joe Lorie
Joe Lorie was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective article in t...
F
Fred Lubrisky
Fred Lubrisky was one of three workers named on page 3 of the Daily Worker, October 15, 1931, as arrested and...
G
George Lucas
Released
George Lucas was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the W...
D
Dorthy Luciasano
Dorthy Luciasano was named among three people arrested at the Creighton coal-strike picket line in the June 19...
B
Bram Luckom
Released
Bram Luckom was a conscientious resister imprisoned at Allenwood during the 1960s.
W
William James Lyles
Released
William James Lyles was a Philadelphia defendant in the 1967 RAM-related conspiracy prosecution. Contemporary...
H
Henry Lynch
Released
Henry Lynch was a Marietta, Pennsylvania, resident arrested during the election-period operation described by...
A
Anna Lynn
Anna Lynn was a young member of the Young Communist League in Philadelphia. The Daily Worker of April 17, 1931...
V
Violet Lynn
Released
Violet Lynn was arrested on May 3, 1932, after speaking at a strike meeting in Manayunk, Philadelphia. She and...
T
Thomas C. MacDowell
Released
Thomas C. MacDowell is named in Marshall among the four editors and proprietors of Harrisburg's Patriot and Un...
J
James MacNabb
Released
James MacNabb appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
W
Will MacQueen
Released
Will MacQueen was a Black miner serving a year at the Blawnox Workhouse, one of the National Miners' Union str...
A
Andrew Magers
Released
Andrew was a White anti-imperialist activist imprisoned at FCI Lewisburg in the 1980s on charges related to an...
W
Wilbur Maheney
Released
Wilbur Maheney was a Philadelphian who admitted past Communist Party membership but refused to name others bef...
W
W. Makedes
W. Makedes was an Unemployed Council leader in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, reported arrested in a June 20, 1934...
P
Patrick Mangan
Patrick Mangan of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, was identified as a militant leader in the Glen Alden coal strike in...
D
Dominic Mangini
Dominic Mangini was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective articl...
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Pete Mangini
Pete Mangini was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective article i...
J
Joe Mankin
Joe Mankin was a Pittsburgh unemployment organizer and Daily Worker representative. The April 14, 1931 issue r...
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Mike Marakowich
Mike Marakowich was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective articl...
T
Tom Marsden
Released
Tom Marsden was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
N
Nathaniel Martin
Released
Nathaniel Martin was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and march...
R
Robert Martin
Released
Robert Martin was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched...
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