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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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Beatrice Mash
Beatrice Mash was one of six anti-fascist pickets jailed after a Free Thaelmann demonstration before the Germa...
F
Frank Maskaluskas
Frank Maskaluskas was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective arti...
T
Thomas Mattox
Released
Thomas Mattox was a seventeen-year-old Black youth held in Philadelphia in 1943 as a fugitive wanted in Georgi...
G
George Matty
George Matty was individually named by National Miners Union secretary-treasurer Pat Toohey in the December 13...
M
Mike Matty
Released
Mike Matty was a coal miner from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, jailed at the Allegheny County Workhouse at Blawno...
M
Meredith Mauk
Meredith Mauk was arrested in June 1934 during resistance to an eviction in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. The Da...
T
Thomas McComb
Released
Thomas McComb was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched...
J
James McDonnell
Released
James McDonnell was convicted of the November 1863 murder of mine owner George K. Smith at Audenried and hange...
J
John McGill
Released
John McGill was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in...
J
James McGovern Jr.
Released
James McGovern Jr., ARA/Antifa member; LOVE Park 4 co-defendant in the July 23, 2007 FBI SUV damage. No-contes...
T
Terrence McGuckin
Released
Terrence McGuckin was an ACT UP/Philadelphia activist arrested during the protests surrounding the 2000 Republ...
P
Peter McHugh
Released
Peter McHugh was convicted in the October 1868 murder of mining superintendent Alexander Rea and hanged at Blo...
W
Will McQueen
Will McQueen was a National Miners Union strike prisoner listed at the Allegheny County Workhouse.
The Novemb...
B
Bob Meli
Released
Bob Meli was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1971.
A
Abby Mellon
Abby Mellon was arrested in mid-May 1991 in the Nava-sink anti-development arson prosecution, according to Dav...
J
Joel Meyers
Released
Joel Meyers was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
M
Michael Michalen
Michael Michalen was a miner imprisoned at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania for activity in the 1921 miners' strike. T...
J
John Midi
John Midi was individually named by National Miners Union secretary-treasurer Pat Toohey in the December 13, 1...
G
Gust Mikades
Gust Mikades was a participant in a workers’ demonstration at McKeesport on September 1, 1930. The Daily Worke...
A
Andrew Miller
Released
Andrew Miller appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
A
Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller is named in Marshall in his list of people arrested and confined from Clearfield County, Pennsyl...
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Eli Miller
Released
Eli Miller appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and co...
J
Jessica Joyce Miller
Released
Jessica Joyce Miller joined the Hatfield’s Ferry smokestack protest against the Bush administration’s energy p...
T
Thomas Miller
Released
Thomas Miller was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
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