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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

Documented cases

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

V
Victor Perez
Released
Victor Perez was a Jersey City Panther held in Hudson County Jail before trial over an alleged police-station...
P
Petroni
Petroni, whose given name is not supplied in the report, was a leading Young Communist League member involved...
J
John Piccollelli
Released
John Piccollelli was arrested at his Hoboken home on an illegal-entry accusation and was out on five-hundred-d...
M
Maggie Pitocco
Released
Maggie Pitocco was a seventeen-year-old picket in the 1926 Passaic textile strike. Maggie Pitocco was sentence...
T
Tony Pochno
Released
Tony Pochno was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" frame-up th...
W
William Pollard
William Pollard was identified among the leaders prosecuted during the RCA strike at Camden, New Jersey. A Jul...
F
Frances Pollizzo
Frances Pollizzo is individually named as a woman Passaic striker given a jail sentence in the May 1927 Labor...
E
Elizabeth C. Principe
Elizabeth C. Principe was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glou...
M
Michael Prush
Released
Michael Prush was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
N
Njeri Quddus
Released
RNA citizen from Camden NJ; wife of Offogga Quddus. One of three women among the RNA-11 (with Tamu Sana and Ai...
O
Offogga Quddus
Released
Born Wayne Maurice James of Camden NJ. RNA citizen present at the Lewis Street raid. Convicted; served prison...
C
Celeste Rauschenplat
Celeste Rauschenplat was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouc...
D
Dave Rausen
Dave Rausen was a defendant in the Newark political prosecutions supported by the International Labor Defense,...
T
Thomas Redman
Released
Thomas Redman was a Quaker jailed at Gloucester Town in 1777 for refusing support for the Revolution and a ple...
O
Otto B. Reichelt
Released
Otto B. Reichelt was from New Jersey. Otto B. Reichelt received "a severe sentence" despite Department of Just...
E
Erica Wilhelmine Reimold
Erica Wilhelmine Reimold was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in G...
S
Salvatore Ribardo
Salvatore Ribardo was individually named among seven workers actually arrested for distributing United Front l...
M
Marta Sophie Rickenberg
Marta Sophie Rickenberg was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gl...
S
Simone Riulina
Simone Riulina was a civilian internee listed at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester City, New Jersey, in...
A
A. Rivera (Jersey City mine organizer, 1933)
A. Rivera was named with TonyMinerich and PeteChaypa among Pennsylvania/Ohio mine leaders held at JerseyCity u...
R
Rocco
Rocco, whose given name is not supplied in the report, was a leading Young Communist League member involved in...
J
Joseph Rogers
Joseph Rogers is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated part...
G
Gustav Adolph Romahn
Gustav Adolph Romahn was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouc...
H
Harry Roselli
Released
Harry Roselli was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age o...

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