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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.

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Sigmund Rosenberg
Released
Sigmund Rosenberg was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary A...
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Abe Rothbaum
Abe Rothbaum was a Furniture Workers Industrial Union member whose arrest in Jersey City was reported in May 1...
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Herman Rothwell
Herman Rothwell was named among the speakers beaten and arrested when police broke up the Trenton Communist el...
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Isaiah Rowley
Released
Isaiah Rowley was a Jersey City Panther held in Hudson County Jail before trial over an alleged police-station...
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Alton Rubenstein
Released
Alton Rubenstein was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Ag...
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Joacchino Salerno
Joacchino Salerno was individually named among seven workers actually arrested for distributing United Front l...
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Lillian Sandry
Lillian Sandry was a Civil Liberties Union member jailed in the Jersey City campaign against Mayor Frank Hague...
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Madeleine Schaefer
Madeleine Schaefer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouces...
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Peter Schellbach
Released
Peter Schellbach was from Jersey City, New Jersey. Peter Schellbach began serving a prison sentence on June 14...
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Nicholas Schillaci
Released
Nicholas Schillaci was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" fram...
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Carl Schrade
Carl Schrade was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester Ci...
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Franz Schuetz
Franz Schuetz was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester C...
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Mildred Schulman
Mildred Schulman was named among six Newark leather-strike pickets held without bail after arrests reported in...
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Karl Schultes
Karl Schultes was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester C...
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Dan Schuzree
Dan Schuzree was named among six Newark leather-strike pickets held without bail after arrests reported in the...
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Mrs. Schuzree
Mrs. Schuzree was named among six Newark leather-strike pickets held without bail after arrests reported in th...
A
Abraham Schwartz
Released
Abraham Schwartz was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Tom Scott
Tom Scott was an International Labor Defense organizer prosecuted for organizing the defense of workers arrest...
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Pat Seiber
Released
Pat Seiber was jailed for a nonviolent anti-nuclear protest at the RCA plant in Moorestown, New Jersey, on Apr...
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Rick Seiber
Released
Rick Seiber was jailed for a nonviolent anti-nuclear protest at the RCA plant in Moorestown, New Jersey, on Ap...
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Nina Shafransky
The July 1926 Labor Defender Passaic strike report individually captions Nina Shafransky being arrested. The p...
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Mrs. Shapiro (Newark eviction defense, 1934)
The Daily Worker of October 13, 1934, page 3, in a Newark dispatch dated October 11, identifies Mrs. Shapiro a...
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Martha Shemeley
Released
Martha Lee Shemeley was a Camden social worker, a former diocesan teacher, a Seton Hall psychology graduate an...
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Paul Sica
Paul Sica was a fifty-six-year-old Rahway, New Jersey relief worker with a double rupture who lacked suitable...

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