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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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Frank Sonosky
Frank Sonosky was individually named by National Miners Union secretary-treasurer Pat Toohey in the December 1...
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Kate Sorensen
Released
Kate Sorensen was an activist with ACT UP/Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Direct Action Group, arrested arou...
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Dennis Southward
Released
Dennis Southward appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
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William Spang
Released
William Spang was president of Fort Dukane lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers...
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Michael Sparks
Michael Sparks was among three workers arrested at the February 10, 1931 unemployment-relief demonstration in...
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Orlando Spartaco
Orlando Spartaco was sentenced that day by Judge McLevitt to two years in county prison after jumping on visit...
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Francis Spicer
Released
Francis Spicer was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from...
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Charles Spinak
Charles Spinak was a Union of Russian Workers member prosecuted under Pennsylvania's Sedition Act for distribu...
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Henry Stacey
Henry Stacey was among the coal-strike defendants named in the July 24 Pittsburgh bulletin published in the Da...
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Stephen Stanley
Released
Stephen Stanley was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
M
Mike Stanovich
Released
Mike Stanovich was arrested while speaking or carrying an antiwar banner at the National Tube Company demonstr...
K
Ken Stapel
Released
Ken Stapel was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 197...
H
Henry Stark
Released
Henry Stark was a coal-strike prisoner in western Pennsylvania. In November 1931 he was confined at the Allegh...
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Charles Starocarski
Released
Charles Starocarski was arrested with three other speakers at a strike meeting in Manayunk, Philadelphia, on M...
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Edward A. Starr
Released
Edward A. Starr was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Jacob Stauffer
Released
Jacob Stauffer was imprisoned at Allenwood for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960s.
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Marvin Stauffer
Released
Marvin Stauffer was imprisoned at Allenwood for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960s.
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Raymond Stauffer
Released
Raymond Stauffer appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft...
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Ernest A. Stephens
Released
Ernest A. Stephens was serving a prison sentence from July 30, 1918, to June 21, 1920, in McNeil Island Penite...
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M. Stern
M. Stern was district organizer of the International Labor Defense in Philadelphia. The June 25 dispatch repor...
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Charles Stevenson
Charles Stevenson was sentenced to one to three years after the Brenner Fur Shop strike confrontation.
The Ap...
J
James Stewart
Released
James Stewart was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
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Burdtt W. Stine
Released
Burdtt W. Stine was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Kate Stone
Kate Stone was a knitgoods worker prosecuted for picketing during a Philadelphia knitgoods strike. The Daily W...
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