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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.
Ericka Huggins
Released
Ericka Huggins was a leader of the New Haven, Connecticut chapter of the Black Panther Party. After the May 21...
Peter Irons
Released
Peter Irons was a civil-rights and antiwar organizer who refused induction and served federal prison time. He...
Alexander Kazem-Bek
In Exile
Alexander Kazem-Bek was a Russian-born political activist, writer and Orthodox church worker who lived and tau...
Eugene Keyes
Released
Eugene "Gene" Keyes was a 19-year-old Harvard student — not, as sometimes recorded, an NYU student — and Commi...
Warren Kimbro
Released
Warren Kimbro was the New Haven Black Panther in whose apartment Alex Rackley was held, and who fired the firs...
Cornelius Lehane
Released
Cornelius Lehane was from Cork County, Ireland. A Socialist and Irish Nationalist, Lehane worked both as a jou...
Charles "Butch" Lewis
Released
Charles "Butch" Lewis was a co-founder of the Hartford Black Panther organization and remained a neighborhood...
Steve Long
Released
Steve Long was the Free Breakfast Program coordinator for the Connecticut State Chapter of the Black Panther P...
Alfred Marder
Released
Alfred Marder was a New Haven printer, union activist, and one of the Connecticut Communists prosecuted in the...
Chuck Matthei
Released
Chuck Matthei was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.
Lonnie McLucas
Released
Lonnie McLucas was a Bridgeport, Connecticut member of the Black Panther Party and the only New Haven defendan...
Douglas Miranda
Released
Douglas Miranda was the 20-year-old defense captain of the Boston Black Panther Party when Connecticut police...
Hattie Nestel
Released
Hattie Nestel, born Hattie Axelrod in Philadelphia, is a Jewish anti-nuclear and environmental activist. Her f...
Martin Quigley
Released
Martin Peter Quigley, an Irish national from Dundalk, was arrested July 12, 1989 in the Boston weapons-export...
Cal Robertson
Released
Cal Robertson was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's...
Paul Salstrom
Released
Paul Salstrom is a historian and conscientious war resister who was imprisoned during the1960s.
George Sams Jr.
Released
George W. Sams Jr. was a national Black Panther Party "field marshal" who supervised the interrogation of Alex...
Edward Sanders
Released
Edward Sanders was a 21-year-old New York University student — not, as sometimes recorded, a Harvard student —...
Rose Marie Smith
Released
Rose Marie Smith was a sixteen-year-old member of the New Haven Black Panther Party when police arrested her o...
Aaron Stevens
Released
Aaron Stevens was a Mexican–American War veteran and one of John Brown's most experienced lieutenants. He had...
Fran Stephanie Trutt
Fran Stephanie Trutt was an opponent of animal testing arrested in Connecticut on November 11, 1988. Associate...
Landon Williams
Released
Landon Williams was a national Black Panther Party field marshal sent from the California headquarters to New...
Jeannie Wilson
Released
Jeannie Wilson was a juvenile detained in connection with the New Haven Black Panther prosecution in 1969. The...
Richard Zink
Released
Richard Zink was a 20-year-old Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist sentenced in the 1961 Polaris Action...
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