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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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Russell Danielson
PDF page 4 reports Danielson released alongside Donald Wiley and Joe West from sedition and breach-of-peace ch...
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Geanna Dean
Geanna Dean was jailed after the May 1, 1986 anti-Trident road blockade in Norwich, Connecticut.
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Jeremiah Decessa
Released
Jeremiah Decessa was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Connecticut imprisoned during World War...
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Larry Dobie
Released
Larry Dobie was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
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Richard Dominick
Released
Richard Dominick appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft...
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Stephen Duhan
Stephen Duhan was a farmer in the Stony Hill district of Bethel, Connecticut. A January 4 dispatch printed Jan...
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Moses Dunbar
Released
Moses Dunbar was a Connecticut farmer and Anglican convert who took the side of the Crown. Having accepted a c...
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Edward E. Krieckhaus
The Militant reports that Yale psychology instructor Edward E. Krieckhaus was initially arrested during the No...
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Robert Champion Ekins
Released
Robert Champion Ekins was a Connecticut Communist Party organizer prosecuted in the New Haven Smith Act case....
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Ludwig Evanicki
Released
Ludwig Evanicki was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecuti...
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Theodore E. Falatovitch
Released
Theodore E. Falatovitch was a conscientious objector from Connecticut imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Doug Fauntleroy
Doug Fauntleroy was a member of the New Haven chapter of the Black Panther Party. A July 1, 1970 party stateme...
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Russell Ford
Released
Russell F. Ford was a Wesleyan University draft-registration resister prosecuted in Connecticut. Contemporary...
G
George Foster
George Foster was identified as a class-war prisoner in a Connecticut International Labor Defense campaign rep...
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V. Gaudenzi
Released
V. Gaudenzi was an Italian-American anti-fascist held in the New London, Connecticut jail in 1928 on a charge...
A
Angelo Giano
Released
Angelo Giano was one of the New London workers arrested after an anti-fascist demonstration during the October...
C
Chris Gifford
Released
Chris Gifford was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.
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Raymond Giustiani
Released
Raymond Giustiani was one of the New London workers arrested after an anti-fascist demonstration during the Oc...
D
David Goldberg
Released
David Goldberg was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from...
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Jacob Goldring
Released
Jacob Goldring was a Connecticut Communist Party organizer prosecuted in the New Haven Smith Act case. A jury...
C
Christopher Grannis
Christopher Grannis was an anti-nuclear protester individually named in the May 9, 1981 newsletter as held ove...
J
Jean Grossholts
Jean Grossholts was jailed after the May 1, 1986 anti-Trident road blockade in Norwich, Connecticut.
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Ellen Grusse
Released
Ellen Grusse was a New Haven feminist imprisoned for refusing federal grand-jury testimony in 1975. Two civil-...
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Peter Harris
Released
Peter Harris was imprisoned at Danbury for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960s.

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