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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 Jersey.

421Documented
2In custody
224Released
2Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New Jersey

Where New Jersey’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 160 1940s 52 1970s 46 1960s 36 1920s 30 1910s 26

Documented cases

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

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Morris Kalinsky
Released
Morris Kalinsky was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age...
A
Albert Kalzenbuch
Released
Albert Kalzenbuch was a member of the National Textile Workers Union in Paterson, New Jersey. He and four othe...
B
B. I. Kantorovitch
B. I. Kantorovitch, also printed Kantrovitch, was a former Paterson worker deported during the Palmer raids of...
M
Martin Kardin
Released
Martin Kardin was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age o...
J
John Kasper
Released
John Kasper was an organizer of the Newark Unemployed Council who helped prepare an unemployed-workers parade...
A
Albert Katzenbuch
Released
Albert Katzenbuch was a National Textile Workers Union defendant in the1931 Paterson silk-strike prosecution f...
T
Thomas Kelleher
Released
Thomas Kelleher was a seamen’s-strike picket imprisoned at Hoboken, New Jersey in1936. The Daily Worker of Jul...
W
William Kimmich
William Kimmich was individually named among five RCA strikers indicted by a Camden grand jury on seven counts...
A
Alex Kiriluk
Released
Alex Kiriluk was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
J
Julie Kohler
Julie Kohler was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester Ci...
A
Alex Kostamacha
Released
Alex Kostamacha was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" frame-u...
A
Anatoly P. Kotloby
In Exile
Anatoly P. Kotloby was a Soviet-born American chemical engineer who worked on classified solid-rocket propella...
P
Paul Kovac
Released
Paul Kovac was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" frame-up tha...
G
Gus Kreuzbainer
Gus Kreuzbainer was named among six Newark leather-strike pickets held without bail after arrests reported in...
W
Wilhelm Kusterer
Wilhelm Kusterer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouceste...
W
Wilhelm George Laege
Wilhelm George Laege was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouc...
M
Meyer Laks
Released
Meyer Laks was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age of A...
I
Ida Langer
Ida Langer, wife of Newark fur-workers leader Morris Langer, is individually named by Grover among 23 people a...
M
Marion Laughlin
Marion Laughlin was a woman Daily Worker seller arrested in August 1933 while selling the newspaper outside th...
J
Joseph Lepshivicius
Joseph Lepshivicius was a defendant in the Newark political prosecutions supported by the International Labor...
J
John Levering
Released
John Levering was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
B
Benjamin Lieb
Released
Benjamin Lieb was a forty-six-year-old veteran organizer and father of three. Benjamin Lieb was one of five Na...
H
Harry Lipschutz
Released
Harry Lipschutz, identified as an International Labor Defense lawyer, was one of nine people arrested when New...
A
Alfred Robert Loescher
Alfred Robert Loescher was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glo...

Institutions in New Jersey

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

New Jersey State PrisonTrenton, New Jersey
15 cases
Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for WomenClinton, New Jersey
10 cases
Essex County JailNewark, New Jersey
9 cases
New Jersey State Prison, TrentonTrenton, New Jersey
6 cases
Passaic County JailPaterson, New Jersey
6 cases
Bergen County JailHackensack, New Jersey
3 cases
U.S. District Court, District of New JerseyTrenton, New Jersey
3 cases
FCI Fort DixFort Dix, New Jersey
2 cases