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Massachusetts

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 Massachusetts.

351Documented
1In custody
196Released
3Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Massachusetts

Where Massachusetts’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 102 1920s 38 1970s 30 1980s 27 1800s 27 1910s 24

Documented cases

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

A
Alphonse Lameiras
Alphonse Lameiras was arrested on a disturbing-the-peace allegation during the Monday picketing described by W...
J
Jean Lanthier
Jean Lanthier was among seven anti-fascist demonstrators prosecuted after protesting Nazi propagandist Ernst H...
E
Etienne Lebrun
Page 3 reports Etienne Lebrun arrested with TUUL organizer Bill Dunne on vagrancy charges November 9 in Lawren...
M
Marie Legrand
Pages 1 and 3's November 10 Lawrence report identifies Marie Legrand as an NTWU member and United Front Rank a...
J
John S. Lillie
Released
John S. Lillie was the editor of the Boston Constitutional Telegraphe, a small Democratic-Republican weekly th...
S
Sidney Lipshires
Released
Sidney Lipshires was a Communist Party member who joined the Communist Party in 1939 and in 1947 ran for city...
J
James W. Livingston
Released
James W. Livingston was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
D
Daniel Ludington
Released
Daniel Ludington was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason...
C
Carol Markarian
Released
Carol Markarian was jailed following an anti-nuclear protest at the GTE research facility in Westboro, Massach...
H
Harry Marks
Harry Marks, reported as 24 years old, was arrested in Boston for distributing leaflets to marine workers. The...
F
Flora Martin
Flora Martin was arrested while picketing a north-end New Bedford mill gate on the night before an August 14,...
G
Granville Martin
Released
Granville Martin was arrested and convicted with William Monroe Trotter after the same July 30, 1903 Boston co...
S
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was imprisoned on a witchcraft accusation during the Salem prosecutions in Massachusetts in 16...
J
Joseph Maschetti
The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike report individually lists this worker among those actually arrested betwe...
M
Mark McCarthy
Mark McCarthy was individually named in the April 5, 1985 GTE peace witness. The GTE account individually iden...
H
Henry McCulloch
Released
Henry McCulloch was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason o...
D
Daniel J. McIntosh
Daniel J. McIntosh organized the Cape Cod Cranberry Pickers Union during the September 1933 cranberry strike....
G
Germina Medieros
Germina Medieros was a New Bedford strike-committee member arrested on a warrant while going to a union meetin...
I
Irwin Miller
Irwin Miller was among seven anti-fascist demonstrators prosecuted after protesting Nazi propagandist Ernst Ha...
S
Shadrach Minkins
Released
Shadrach Minkins was a Black man held in Boston federal custody under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 after esc...
L
Lianne Moccia
Released
Lianne Moccia, from Revere, Massachusetts, was twenty-one at the Camden 28 indictment, a part-time senior at F...
W
William Montgomery
William Montgomery was a Socialist student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Paul Porter’s January 9,...
J
John Morrison
Released
John Morrison was jailed in Boston in the aftermath of the May 1854 attempt to rescue Anthony Burns from being...
F
Frank Motulis
The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike report individually lists this worker among those actually arrested betwe...

Institutions in Massachusetts

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Massachusetts that appear in the census’s case files.

Fort WarrenBoston, Massachusetts
75 cases
Norfolk County Jail Dedham, Massachusetts
10 cases
Boston Court House
3 cases
Charlestown State PrisonBoston, Massachusetts
2 cases
Deer Island PrisonBoston, Massachusetts
2 cases
Boston JailBoston, Massachusetts
2 cases
Hampshire County Jail (Northampton)Northampton, Massachusetts
1 case
Salem, MA federal jailSalem, Massachusetts
1 case