New Jersey

Tariq MaQbool

In Custody

Tariq MaQbool is a Pakistani American incarcerated writer and prison-journalism advocate. Inquest reported in...

Kory McClary

In Custody

Kory McClary is an incarcerated New Jersey writer and contributor to Prison Journalism Project. He has also pu...

Héctor García Mendoza

Released

Héctor García Mendoza was detained at Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey and became a plaintiff in litig...

Sundiata Acoli

Released

Sundiata Acoli, born Clark Squire in Decatur, Texas in 1937, is a former NASA mathematician, member of the Har...

Ashanti Alston

Released

Ashanti Alston organized within Black liberation politics in the early 1970s, first through the community-prog...

John Artis

Released

John Artis was a 19-year-old with no criminal record, convicted alongside Carter; he stood by Carter's innocen...

Amiri Baraka

Released

Amiri Baraka was the poet and playwright formerly known as Everett LeRoi Jones who was arrested and beaten by...

Ras Baraka

Released

Ras Baraka was the mayor of Newark when federal agents arrested him outside the Delaney Hall immigration deten...

Alfred M. Bingham

Released

Alfred Mitchell Bingham was an editor of Common Sense and a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. In J...

Timothy Blunk

Released

Tim Blunk was a New Jersey activist arrested with Susan Rosenberg on November 29, 1984 in Cherry Hill while mo...

Bill Brakefield

Released

Bill Brakefield appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...

George Breitman

George Breitman was a Newark unemployed-workers organizer and a state leader of the Workers Alliance. A March...

James Ellery Bristol

Released

James Ellery Bristol was an American peace activist and Lutheran minister who was imprisoned for conscientious...

Jeff Burkitt

Released

James F. “Jeff” Burkitt was a magazine salesman and outspoken opponent of Jersey City mayor Frank Hague. He wa...

James Carey

Released

James B. Carey was the first national president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America...

Rubin Carter

Released

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a nationally ranked middleweight boxer when he was convicted of the Lafayette Bar...

Edward Childs

Released

Edward Childs was a Newark, New Jersey worker arrested when police raided an unemployed-workers meeting at 93...

Jake Conroy

Released

Jake Conroy is an American animal rights activist and vegan who became widely known for his role in Stop Hunti...

Ralph Cooper

Released

Trenton Six defendant. Pleaded guilty at retrial — life imprisonment; paroled 1954. The May 23, 1951 National...

Eugene Dixon

Released

Eugene "Gene" Dixon was a Camden resident, father of four, and a longtime supervisor for a Philadelphia automo...

Inge Donato

Released

Inge Donato, known as Rose, was the bookkeeper for the McKee-Donato Construction Company and a member of the R...

Joseph Donato

Released

Joseph Donato, known as Joe, was a co-owner of the McKee-Donato Construction Company and a member of the Resto...

Father Michael Doyle

Released

Father Michael Doyle was an Irish-born Catholic priest of the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, longtime pastor a...

Michael Doyle

Released

Michael Doyle was one of the Irish coal miners hanged as a Molly Maguire in the Pennsylvania anthracite region...