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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 New Hampshire.
49Documented
1In custody
45Released
Eras of repression in New Hampshire
Where New Hampshire’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1960s 12
1970s 10
2020s 6
1950s 6
1980s 5
2000s 4
Recent dashboard entries from New Hampshire
The newest published events and reporting located in New Hampshire, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
ACLU-NH client released from ICE detention at Strafford County jail after more than a month held
Protest
No Kings day draws thousands to the New Hampshire State House
Protest
Hundreds join a No Kings rally at Ladies Wildwood Park in Keene
Protest
More than 3,000 fill the Soldiers and Sailors Monument for No Kings
Documented cases
49 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Ian Freeman
In Custody
Ian Freeman (born Ian Bernard) is a libertarian talk-radio host and activist serving an eight-year federal sen...
Arnie Alpert
Released
Arnie Alpert participated in the Clamshell Alliance occupation of the Seabrook nuclear construction site in 19...
Paige Belanger
Released
Paige Belanger is one of the Merrimack Four. On November 20, 2023, four young women — Calla Walsh, Sophie Ross...
Homer Chase
Released
Homer Chase was a New Hampshire labor organizer and Communist Party activist who served with the Abraham Linco...
Elba Chase Nelson
Released
Elba Chase Nelson was a New Hampshire Communist organizer and the party’s 1938 candidate for governor. During...
Guy Chichester
Released
Guy Chichester was a Navy veteran who moved from Long Island to Rye, NH, and a co-founder of the Clamshell All...
Robert Reynolds Cushing Jr.
Released
Robert Reynolds Cushing Jr. was a lifelong Hampton, NH activist. Co-founded the Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and...
Aria DiMezzo
Released
Aria DiMezzo is a transgender anarchist activist from Keene, New Hampshire, and a figure in the Free Keene / F...
Paul Gunter
Released
One of the original 18 Clamshell Alliance members arrested at Seabrook on August 1, 1976 — the action that lau...
Kevin B. Jones
Released
Kevin B. Jones was a New Hampshire peace activist imprisoned at Danbury after refusing induction during the Vi...
Harold Marcuse
Released
Harold Marcuse participated in the 1977 Clamshell Alliance occupation at Seabrook while a Wesleyan student. He...
Tyler N. McFarland
Released
Tyler N. McFarland, age 27, of Dover NH, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.
Howard Morland
Released
Former U.S. Air Force C-141 pilot trained to ferry nuclear weapons who became, in 1979, the journalist who "di...
Macy Morse
Released
Macy Morse was a mother and grandmother from Nashua, NH whose three oldest sons served in the military, one in...
Victor Bruce Pacht
Released
Victor Bruce Pacht was jailed at Rockingham County Jail after the May1969 Parkhurst Hall occupation against RO...
Thea Paneth
Released
Thea Paneth was a Clamshell Alliance participant detained for twelve days after the 1977 Seabrook occupation i...
Parker Pillsbury
Released
Parker Pillsbury was a New Hampshire abolitionist lecturer and nonresistant who, with Stephen Foster and other...
Sophie Ross
Released
Sophie Marika Ross, 22, co-founder of Palestine Action US, was indicted February 23, 2024 for the November 20,...
Bridget Shergalis
Released
Bridget Irene Shergalis, 27, of Dayville CT, Palestine Action US member; co-defendant in the November 2023 Elb...
Paul Sweezy
Released
Paul Sweezy was editor of the Monthly Review who was jailed and cited for refusing the New Hampshire attorney-...
Steven E. Tozer
Released
Steven E. Tozer was jailed after the May1969 occupation of Dartmouth College’s Parkhurst Hall protesting ROTC...
Willard Uphaus
Released
Dr. Willard Uphaus was the director of World Fellowship, a religious pacifist organization, targeted by New Ha...
Calla Walsh
Released
Calla Mairead Walsh, 19, of Cambridge MA, Palestine Action US member; co-defendant in the November 2023 Elbit...
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Diane Reinhardt
Diane Reinhardt began actually serving a twenty-two-day jail sentence on November 7, 1983 after refusing a fin...
Institutions in New Hampshire
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in New Hampshire that appear in the census’s case files.
Hillsborough County House of Corrections (Nashua)Nashua, New Hampshire
3 cases
Valley Street House of CorrectionsManchester, New Hampshire
3 cases
Hillsborough County House of CorrectionsManchester, New Hampshire
1 case
New Hampshire State PrisonConcord, New Hampshire
1 case