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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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John Mitchell
Released
John Mitchell was a western Pennsylvania participant in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 who was persuaded to rob...
S
Shabaka Mnombatha
Shabaka Mnombatha was arrested on March 19, 2009. Defenestrator reported the arrests of Uhuru organizers Diop...
C
Charles E. Mohr
Released
Charles E. Mohr was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World...
J
Julio Monge Hernández
Released
Julio Monge Hernández was a Puerto Rican independence supporter imprisoned at Lewisburg. Executive Order 7731...
D
Dave Monosson
Released
Dave Monosson was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from...
C
Charles Moore
Released
Charles Moore was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World Wa...
F
Frances Moore
Frances Moore, union organizer in the Rosenau shirt-factory strike at Red Hill, was held in Montgomery County...
P
Peter Moretti
Peter Moretti was one of the ten Cheswick defendants individually named in Vern Smith’s retrospective article...
E
Ercole Morreti
Released
Ercole Morreti was one of the Cheswick protest defendants whose Oakmont hearing before Justice of the Peace Bl...
A
Aaron Morton
Released
Aaron Morton was arrested on November 7, 1864. Marshall identifies Morton as a Maytown, Lancaster County bric...
C
Caleb Mountz
Released
Caleb Mountz was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the W...
B
Benjamin Moye
Released
Benjamin Moye was a co-editor of the Harrisburger Morgenrothe, also recorded as Benjamin Moyer or Benjamin May...
F
Frank Mozer
Frank Mozer was a Communist candidate for governor arrested at a Philadelphia waterfront meeting organized by...
J
John Munn
Released
John Munn was one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and marched in c...
J
Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy was the Communist Party section organizer in Washington County, Pennsylvania, for about six months...
T
Tom Myerscough
Released
Tom Myerscough, also known as Thomas Myerscough, was born in Wigan, Lancashire, England. He worked in coal min...
T
Thomas Nabried
Released
Thomas Nabried was one of nine Communist Party organizers prosecuted in the Philadelphia Smith Act case. A jur...
C
Charles Nemitz
Charles Nemitz was a striking miner from Nanticoke. The Daily Worker, February 21, 1935, page 2, continuing a...
S
Santiago Nieves Marzán
Released
Santiago Nieves Marzán was a Puerto Rican Nationalist prosecuted with Julio Pinto Gandía and other independenc...
X
Xavier Nolley-Hall
Released
Xavier Nolley-Hall was with Raphael Shaw entering the West Philadelphia Wells Fargo with intent to steal money...
J
John Novak
John was arrested for speaking to unemployed workers outside shipbuilding plants in Chester. The Chester Febr...
S
Samuel Nye
Released
Samuel Nye was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the Whi...
C
Casper Oberstadt
Released
Casper Oberstadt was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecut...
A
Andy Ogando
Released
Andy Ogando was a union steelworker arrested during the 1937 Little Steel strike against Bethlehem Steel's Cam...

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