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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.
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Steven Harvey
Released
Steven Harvey appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
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Hersh (Waterbury youth defendant, 1930)
Rose Ross's prison letter identifies Hersh as a fellow Waterbury youth defendant defended by the International...
C
Clifford Horton
PDF page 4 reports the ILD won the release of Horton, a twenty-eight-year-old Black worker held on a rape accu...
T
Thomas Robert Hosmer
Released
Thomas Robert Hosmer refused military induction and sought recognition as a conscientious objector. He was imp...
G
George A. Hubbell
Released
Marshall identifies Hubbell as a disabled newsboy from Bridgeport, Connecticut, who sold newspapers on the Nau...
J
Jackson (Waterbury, 1931)
Released
Jackson was a Communist speaker detained by Waterbury, Connecticut police on May 21, 1931. A worker correspond...
J
Joe Jackson (New Britain, 1931)
Joe Jackson was an Unemployed Council organizer jailed in Hartford County, Connecticut, for leading a New Brit...
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William Jackson
Released
William Jackson was 24 when Connecticut police arrested him with four Boston Black Panthers on August 7, 1969...
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Earl Jenkins
Released
Earl Jenkins appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
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Fleming Jordan
Released
Fleming Jordan was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutio...
D
David Kaplan
Released
David Kaplan was jailed thirty-six days in the 1935 Bridgeport, Connecticut student-strike case, one of the yo...
B
Brian Kavanagh
Released
Brian Kavanagh was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman'...
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Vincent Kay
Released
Vincent Kay was a house painter and poet from New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Covenant Peace Commu...
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Sylvia Kimbro
Released
Sylvia Kimbro was detained in the May 1969 New Haven raid that began the prosecution over Alex Rackley’s death...
E
Edmund Kittredge
Released
Edmund Kittredge appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
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R. S. Kling
R. S. Kling was a Communist candidate for mayor of New Haven who was jailed in New Britain, Connecticut, on Au...
G
George Kowalsky
Released
George Kowalsky was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecuti...
J
Josh Kricker
Released
Josh Kricker was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.
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Sam Krieger
Released
Sam Krieger was an unemployed Bridgeport, Connecticut worker jailed for participation in the March5,1934 snow...
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Vicki Kroon
Vicki Kroon was an anti-nuclear protester individually named in the May 9, 1981 newsletter as held over the we...
J
John Kunz
Released
John Kunz was from New Britain, Connecticut. John Kunz was convicted on May 28, 1918.
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Raymond Larson
Released
Raymond Larson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
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William Lawless
Released
William Lawless was identified in contemporary lists of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resist...
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Ronald Loomis
Ronald Loomis was a leader of the New Britain, Connecticut Unemployed Council and had been the Communist candi...
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