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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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Stanley Tomkins
Stanley Tomkins was secretary of the Non-Partisan Unemployed League in Bayonne, New Jersey. The Daily Worker o...
S
Sarah Tosi
Released
Sarah Tosi, from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, was twenty at the Camden 28 indictment. A 1969 graduate of Immaculate...
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William Troublefield
William Troublefield was a vice president of the Newark Teachers Union. The Daily Register of February 14, 197...
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Tom Tuck
Tom Tuck was a Black soldier and American Servicemen’s Union member held in the Fort Dix stockade. Reporting o...
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Jeremy Tupper
Released
Jeremy Tupper appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
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F. Ursenye
F. Ursenye was named among the speakers beaten and arrested when police broke up the Trenton Communist electio...
R
Ralph Vacca
Ralph Vacca was an organizer for the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union. An August 22 Red Bank dispatch in the...
A
Anthony Valentino
Released
Anthony Valentino was a United Electrical Workers figure convicted of falsely signing a Taft-Hartley non-Commu...
J
James Veeny
James Veeny was a Black Newark worker denied relief for his family. After a failed attempt to send the family...
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Werner H. W. Vendt
Werner H. W. Vendt was a civilian internee listed at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester City, New Jersey...
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Hildegard Voigt
Hildegard Voigt was a civilian internee listed at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester City, New Jersey, i...
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Rudolph J. Vrena
Rudolph J. Vrena was a drafted man held at Camp Dix, New Jersey, for refusing military orders on international...
B
Basil Wahib
Released
Basil Wahib was a dye worker arrested during the Paterson, New Jersey strike on October 20, 1933. Police attac...
C
Charles C. Walker
Charles C. Walker is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated...
R
Royal Warren
Released
Royal Warren appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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George Weicz
George Weicz was individually reported jailed under heavy bond at Clifton in connection with an alleged strike...
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Leopold Weinstein
Released
Leopold Weinstein was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Eugene Wells
Released
Eugene Wells was a Philadelphia Black Panther Party member arrested in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on July 4, 1...
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David R. Weyeneth
David R. Weyeneth is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated...
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Hans Wiers
Hans Wiers was a civilian internee listed at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester City, New Jersey, in the...
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Margaurete Lydia Wilhelm
Margaurete Lydia Wilhelm was a civilian internee listed at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester City, New...
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Lillian Willoughby
Lillian Willoughby is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated...
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Maria Willumeit
Maria Willumeit was a civilian internee listed at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester City, New Jersey, i...
A
Alice Wilson
Released
Alice Wilson was a young worker arrested in Newark, New Jersey, for distributing leaflets to employees of Ohrb...

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