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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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Simon Silverman
Released
Simon Silverman (also known as Sid Taylor) was a Connecticut Communist Party organizer prosecuted in the New H...
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Ann Sorenson
Ann Sorenson was jailed after the May 1, 1986 anti-Trident road blockade in Norwich, Connecticut.
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Charles Sparrow
Released
Charles Sparrow was an unemployed Bridgeport, Connecticut worker jailed for participation in the March5,1934 s...
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Joseph Spell
Joseph Spell was a Black chauffeur prosecuted in Connecticut after his white employer accused him of sexual as...
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W. Srogi
W. Srogi was an unemployed young League member arrested in Granby, Connecticut while looking for work with two...
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Bill Sroka
Bill Sroka is named in the Connecticut ILD notice concerning jailed workers and the release campaign. The noti...
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Candy Stephens
Released
Candy Stephens, also known as Candy Kricker, participated in CNVA peace actions and was jailed at Albany and H...
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Jonathan Stephens
Released
Jonathan Stephens, known as John-i-thin, was a CNVA peace walker and draft resister jailed in Georgia and duri...
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Phillip Stiles
Released
Phillip Stiles appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
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John Swanson
Released
John Swanson was a conscientious objector from Connecticut imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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James Sherman Tate
Released
James S. Tate was a Hartford contractor prosecuted in the New Haven Smith Act case. A jury convicted him on Ma...
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Bill Taylor (Connecticut anti-lynching speaker, 1930)
Bill Taylor was named as a speaker at the Hartford anti-lynching meeting reported August 22, 1930. The dispatc...
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Sidney Taylor
Page 3’s September 27 New Haven report identifies Furniture Workers Industrial Union organizer Sidney Taylor a...
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Karen Topakian
Karen Topakian was held September 11–13, 1982 after the peace protest at the USS Michigan commissioning in Gro...
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Louis Torre
Louis Torre was arrested for distributing union leaflets at the Dejur-Amaco Radio Corporation in Shelton, afte...
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Marie Theresa Turgeon
Released
Marie Theresa Turgeon was a New Haven feminist imprisoned for refusing federal grand-jury testimony in 1975. T...
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James Walsh
Released
James Walsh was imprisoned at Danbury as a conscientious or antiwar resister during the 1960s.
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Carmen Jeffcoat (Ida Walston)
Released
Carmen Jeffcoat, who used the name Ida Walston, was 28 when Connecticut police arrested her with four Boston B...
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Gussie Weiner
Gussie Weiner was a Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union organizer. The Daily Worker, August 14, 1933, page...
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Joe West (Connecticut ILD secretary)
PDF page 4 identifies Joe West as ILD secretary and reports him released with Russell Danielson and Donald Wil...
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Clarence Wigfall
Released
Clarence Wigfall appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
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Donald Wiley
PDF page 4 identifies United Farmers League organizer Donald Wiley and reports his release with Russell Daniel...
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Michelle William
Michelle William was jailed after the May 1, 1986 anti-Trident road blockade in Norwich, Connecticut.
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John Williams (Hartford extradition defendant, 1930)
The August 17 Hartford dispatch reports John Williams arrested on an Alabama extradition request alleging a De...
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