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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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Loretta Luckes
Released
Loretta Luckes was a Black Panther from Bridgeport, Connecticut who was in New Haven on a weekend visit when s...
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Liz Lynam
Liz Lynam was an anti-nuclear protester individually named in the May 9, 1981 newsletter as held over the week...
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Mary Lyons
Released
Mary Lyons was a history teacher, mother of five, and grandmother from Hartford, Connecticut. She testified at...
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Rose Markle
Rose Markle was a New Haven Communist arrested with R. S. Kling in Shelton, Connecticut, several weeks before...
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Blaine Martin
Blaine Martin was an anti-nuclear protester individually named in the May 9, 1981 newsletter as held over the...
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Donald Martin
Released
Donald Martin was a 20-year-old Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist who, with Bill Henry, swam to and bo...
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Michael McCord
Released
Michael McCord was a former Harvard divinity student and member of Germantown Meeting who was imprisoned at Da...
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Irwin Messinger
Released
Irwin Messinger was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports fro...
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David Henry Mitchell III
Released
David Henry Mitchell III was a Connecticut draft resister whose 1965 conviction became a landmark of selective...
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Lorenzo Montali
Released
Lorenzo Montali was one of the New London workers arrested after an anti-fascist demonstration during the Octo...
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Jim Noonan
Released
Jim Noonan was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's Ha...
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Agust Perroni
Released
Agust Perroni was one of the New London workers arrested after an anti-fascist demonstration during the Octobe...
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Tony Petnoshki
Released
Tony Petnoshki was a Socialist from Norwich, Connecticut. Tony Petnoshki was sentenced to twenty years in pris...
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Artro Pettinari
Released
Artro Pettinari was one of the New London workers arrested after an anti-fascist demonstration during the Octo...
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Fred Powers
Released
Fred Powers was arrested with Joe Jackson in New Britain, Connecticut in March 1931 after helping lead a demon...
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Dave Quick
Released
David E. “Dave” Quick was 16 when Connecticut police arrested him with four Boston Black Panthers on August 7,...
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Tim Quinn
Released
House painter from Hartford, CT; took part in the 1982 Trident Nein action aboard the USS Florida at Electric...
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Sidney Resnek
Released
Sidney S. Resnick was a New Haven printer prosecuted in the Connecticut Smith Act case. After an earlier indic...
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Sidney Resnick
Released
Sidney Sussman Resnick was a New Haven printer and Connecticut Labor Youth League leader prosecuted in the New...
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Nat Richards (Connecticut anti-lynching speaker, 1930)
Nat Richards was named as a speaker at the Hartford anti-lynching meeting reported August 22, 1930. The dispat...
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Victor Richman
Released
Victor Richman was a Columbia University student and anti-nuclear activist prosecuted with other Committee for...
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Rose Ross
Rose Ross signs a letter from New Haven County Jail thanking the International Labor Defense for defending you...
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Charles Sahrbacher
Released
Charles Sahrbacher was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosec...
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Ernest Schleifer
Ernest Schleifer was a New Haven railroad striker arrested after strikebreakers supplied affidavits alleging h...

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