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New Jersey
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
Recent dashboard entries from New Jersey
The newest published events and reporting located in New Jersey, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
LaMonica McIver faces rehearing deadline in ICE-visit prosecution
Arrest
Five people arrested during an anti-ICE protest outside the Atlantic City Public Safety Building
Prosecution
Rep. LaMonica McIver urges appeals court to toss federal assault charges
Other
FBI Tried to Flip Anti-ICE Protesters Into Informants
Other
Bearing Witness to ICE Abuses at Delaney Hall
Arrest
What to know about the protests and arrests outside a New Jersey detention center
Arrest
Arrests Continue at Delaney Hall After ICE Drawdown – But They're Slowing Down, NJ Mayor Says
Prosecution
Brooklyn man Nicholas Scelfo was charged with threatening to assault and murder an ICE officer and his family after a confrontation at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark
Documented cases
421 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
N
Nat London
Nat London was a Newark teacher and reporter who personally described imprisonment at the Essex County Peniten...
E
Esther Lowell
Esther Lowell was a credentialed Federated Press reporter arrested for disorderly conduct during the Passaic t...
J
J. Ludin
J. Ludin was sentenced to 60 days in jail by Judge Simondle in Newark First Precinct Court on March 4, 1931, a...
J
John Lyding
Page 1’s May 7 Paterson dispatch identifies John Lyding as vice-president of Local 1733, Dyers, United Textile...
F
Francis Mel Madden
Released
Francis Melvin "Mel" Madden, a Boston native, was ordained a Franciscan priest in 1965 and founded Liberty Vil...
G
Gail Madden
Released
Gail Madden was a co-defendant convicted of the first-degree murder of Plainfield, New Jersey police officer J...
M
Magibol (embroidery union secretary, 1933)
Released
Magibol is the surname printed for the secretary of the Schiffli Embroidery Workers Union, affiliated with the...
G
Gottlob Christian Maier
Gottlob Christian Maier was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gl...
P
Paul Majocchi
Released
Paul Majocchi was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age o...
A
Anthony Malanto
Released
Anthony Malanto was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age...
V
Vincent Malatesta
Released
Vincent Malatesta was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary A...
G
Gus Malone
Released
Gus Malone was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age of A...
D
Dominick Mantel
Dominick Mantel was an organizer for the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union. An August 22 Red Bank dispatch in...
G
George John Maunz
George John Maunz was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucest...
C
Charles McCray
Released
Charles McCray was one of two co-defendants tried with the poet LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) for unlawful posses...
J
John McKenzie
Released
John McKenzie was one of the "Trenton Six," six Black men arrested in Trenton, New Jersey in 1948 and charged...
J
Joseph Meak
Joseph Meak, an International Upholsterers union member from Passaic, was arrested Monday, July 9, 1934 while...
V
Vincent Mehl
Released
Vincent Mehl was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age of...
K
Killian F. Melecio
Released
On May 31, 2020 following protests in Trenton, NJ, Killian Melecio, Kadeem Dockery, and Justin Spry were seen...
C
Carl Miller (Trenton election defendant, 1930)
Carl Miller was named among the speakers beaten and arrested when police broke up the Trenton Communist electi...
C
Charles Miller
Released
Charles Miller was arrested with Anna Burlak and Arthur Brown at an International Labor Defense meeting in Ben...
M
Mark Miller
Released
Mark Miller was a Quaker jailed at Gloucester Town in 1777 for refusing support for the Revolution and a pledg...
R
Ruth Miller
Ruth Miller was among twelve workers prosecuted after an August 25, 1932 Communist election rally at Charlton...
T
Theodore Miller
Theodore Miller was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester...
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