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Connecticut
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 Connecticut.
194Documented
1In custody
121Released
Eras of repression in Connecticut
Where Connecticut’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1960s 54
1980s 48
1930s 29
1970s 13
1910s 11
1950s 10
Recent dashboard entries from Connecticut
The newest published events and reporting located in Connecticut, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Immigrant-rights advocates rally outside Meriden courthouse after ICE arrest
Protest
A rally in Middletown after ICE arrests a nursing student near the courthouse
Protest
Dozens rally at City Hall against US military action in Iran
Protest
Nine climate activists arrested in a sit-in at Gov. Lamont's office
Arrest
Climate activists arrested in Gov. Lamont's office over a gas pipeline
Protest
No Kings rally gathers at the Stamford courthouse
Protest
A New Britain City Hall rally after an East Street car wash ICE raid
Protest
Katherine Hinds arrested over anti-Trump banners on Connecticut highway overpasses; all charges later dropped
Documented cases
194 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Cinque (Amistad captive)
Cinque led the African captives’ uprising aboard the Amistad. Elizabeth Lawson’s 1936 historical retrospective...
Hassan Abu-Jihaad
Released
Hassan Abu-Jihaad was a Navy signalman who disclosed the location of USS Benfold in an online forum. Authoriti...
Babar Ahmad
Released
Babar Ahmad was a political prisoner on charges of providing support to terrorist organizations due to a websi...
Syed Talha Ahsan
Released
Syed Talha Ahsan became the focus of a prolonged extradition struggle between the United Kingdom and the U.S.,...
Hillel Arnold
Released
Hillel Arnold was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's...
John M. Bach
Released
John M. Bach was imprisoned for resistance to the Vietnam-era draft. At Danbury he joined other prisoners in o...
Judith Beaumont
Released
Judith Beaumont was a Benedictine sister and teacher from Hartford/Chicago; took part in the 1982 Trident Nein...
Emma Bogush
Released
Emma Bogush is an activist from Connecticut who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Tra...
Philip Caplovitz
Released
Philip Caplovitz was from New Haven, Connecticut. Philip Caplovitz was a conscientious objector imprisoned dur...
Frances Carter
Released
Frances Carter was secretary of the New Haven chapter of the Black Panther Party, arrested in 1969 in connecti...
William Sloane Coffin
Released
William Sloane Coffin Jr. was an American clergyman and one of the most prominent liberal religious voices of...
John E. Cook
Released
John E. Cook was a Yale-educated abolitionist who served as Brown's principal advance scout, living in Harpers...
Joseph Dimow
Released
Joseph Dimow was a Connecticut Communist Party organizer prosecuted in the New Haven Smith Act case. A jury co...
Emory Douglas
Released
Emory Douglas was the Black Panther Party’s minister of culture and the artist responsible for much of its new...
George Edwards
Released
George Walter Edwards was a New Haven Black Panther and community organizer. Police arrested him without a war...
Seymour Eichel
Released
Seymour Eichel, son of Julius and Esther Eichel, opposed military service and refused draft registration. The...
Maude Francis
Released
Maude Francis was a juvenile detained in connection with the New Haven Black Panther prosecution in 1969. The...
Víctor Manuel Gerena
In Exile
Víctor Manuel Gerena was a Wells Fargo guard accused of helping Los Macheteros, the Ejército Popular Boricua,...
Ed Guerard
Released
Ed Guerard was a Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist and former Marine who repeatedly took to the water...
Dean Hammer
Released
Dean Hammer was a member of the Covenant Peace Community in New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the original Pl...
Bill Henry
Released
Bill Henry was a 27-year-old Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist who, with Donald Martin, swam to and bo...
Rory Hithe
Released
Rory Hithe was one of the national Black Panther Party enforcers sent from the West Coast to New Haven in May...
Charles Holt
Released
Charles Holt was an American printer and editor and the publisher of the Bee in New London, Connecticut, the l...
Margaret Hudgins
Released
Margaret "Peggy" Hudgins was one of the six women of the New Haven Black Panther chapter arrested in 1969 in c...
Institutions in Connecticut
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Connecticut that appear in the census’s case files.
FCI DanburyDanbury, Connecticut
21 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, DanburyDanbury, Connecticut
14 cases
New Haven County JailNew Haven, Connecticut
9 cases
Carl Robinson Correctional InstitutionEnfield, Connecticut
4 cases
Connecticut Correctional Institution, Niantic (state prison for women)Niantic, Connecticut
4 cases
General Dynamics Electric Boat (USS Florida) — Trident Nein
3 cases
Naval Underwater Systems Center, New London (USS Pennsylvania) — Thames River Plowshares
2 cases
Litchfield GaolLitchfield, Connecticut
2 cases