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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

Documented cases

194 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Michael Drummy
Michael Drummy is individually named among the six convicted February 4, 1986 for creating a public disturbanc...
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David Granger
David Granger is individually named among the six convicted February 4, 1986 for creating a public disturbance...
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Roger Aarons
Released
Roger Aarons was a New York pacifist associated with the Committee for Nonviolent Action. He participated in i...
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Isaac Abraham
Isaac Abraham was a leader of the New Britain, Connecticut Unemployed Council. A November 3 dispatch printed i...
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Genevieve Allen
Released
Genevieve “Mickey” Allen participated in resistance to Trident submarines. She described spending five days in...
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Chris Allen-Doucot
Released
Chris Allen-Doucot participated in a Good Friday protest at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut, r...
J
Jackie Allen-Doucot
Released
Jackie Allen-Doucot was 22 and working as a nursery-school teacher in Hartford when she joined the Griffiss Pl...
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Citti Allsup
Released
Citti Allsup was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.
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Bennett Andrews
Released
Bennett W. Andrews was a Philadelphia musician whose opposition to war included refusing noncombatant service...
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Sunshine Appleby
Released
Sunshine Appleby was jailed for ten days after a May 22, 1984 anti-nuclear protest at Electric Boat in Groton,...
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Michele Backs
Michele Backs refused to identify herself after the September 11, 1982 USS Michigan peace protest in Groton. T...
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Frank Baldino
Frank Baldino was a union organizer arrested in Norwalk during the bathrobe strike on August 22, 1934. The Dai...
D
David Bell
Released
David Bell was imprisoned at Danbury as a conscientious or antiwar resister during the 1960s.
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Ronald Bessey
Released
Ronald Bessey appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
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Harry C. Bloom
Released
Harry C. Bloom was imprisoned in Connecticut following a garment-strike prosecution. He pleaded guilty on Janu...
B
Borgris (Waterbury youth defendant, 1930)
Rose Ross's letter from New Haven County Jail identifies Borgris as a fellow Waterbury defendant who was bruta...
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William Boston
Released
William Boston was a house painter and peace worker living in New Haven, Connecticut at the time of Trident II...
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Eugene Burruss
Eugene Burruss was taken into police custody in New Haven on November 11, 1969 after questioning the arrest an...
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Regina Burruss
Regina Burruss was arrested in New Haven on November 11, 1969 after asking why police had arrested a woman put...
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John Campolucci
John Campolucci was arrested with Sam Krieger and Charles Sparrow during an early-March Bridgeport demonstrati...
J
John L. Cheatham
Released
John L. Cheatham was the 19-year-old lieutenant of information for the Boston Black Panther Party when Connect...
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Thomas Comar
Released
Thomas Comar appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Vicki Combs
Vicki Combs was jailed after the May 1, 1986 anti-Trident road blockade in Norwich, Connecticut.
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Eugene Sanger Daniell III
Released
Eugene Sanger Daniell III was imprisoned after refusing induction into the U.S. armed forces and seeking consc...

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