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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
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.
Leqaa Kordia
Released
Leqaa Kordia is a Palestinian woman and longtime New Jersey resident who was detained by ICE in March 2025 as...
Frederick Krafft
Released
Frederick Krafft was an editor and a socialist politician from Ridgefield, New Jersey. Frederick Krafft was se...
Morris Langer
Released
Morris Langer was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 an...
Samuel D. Levine
Released
Samuel D. Levine was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930...
Howard Levy
Released
Captain Howard Levy was an Army dermatologist at Fort Jackson, South Carolina who in 1966 refused orders to tr...
James Lustig
Released
James Lustig was a United Electrical Workers organizer awaiting trial in 1951 for inciting to riot during the...
Ojore Lutalo
Released
Ojore Nuru Lutalo is a Black anarchist who upon his release from prison has become an acclaimed artist display...
Joseph Lypsevitch
Released
Joseph Lypsevitch was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 193...
John MacKenzie
Released
Trenton Six defendant. Acquitted on retrial 1951.
William MacQueen
Released
William MacQueen was an anarchist editor arrested after the 1902 Paterson silk strike. He was convicted on a p...
Carlos Matchett
Released
Carlos Matchett is an Atlantic City, New Jersey man who set fire to an overturned Philadelphia police car on M...
Milton McGriff
Released
Milton McGriff was a Philadelphia Black Panther Party member arrested in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on July 4,...
LaMonica McIver
Awaiting Trial
LaMonica McIver is the U.S. Representative for New Jerseys 10th congressional district and the first Black wom...
Kevin McKee
Released
Kevin McKee was a co-owner of the McKee-Donato Construction Company and a member of the Restored Israel of YAH...
George Merritt Jr.
Released
George Merritt Jr. was convicted of the first-degree murder of Plainfield, New Jersey police officer John V. G...
Theodore Narusheff
Released
Theodore Narusheff was a union organizer convicted of atrocious assault in February 1951, five years after the...
William Norman Marron
Released
William Norman Marron, also known as Bill Norman, was executive secretary of the New York Communist Party and...
Charles Nusser
Released
Charles Nusser was the New Jersey Communist Party secretary arrested in early 1951 under a 1918 state anti-sub...
Abdulrahman Odeh
Released
Abdulrahman Odeh was a leader of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a United States–based Mu...
John Pado
Released
John Pado was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 and in...
Benedict Prieth
Released
Benedict Prieth was a newspaper editor from New Jersey. Benedict Prieth was convicted under the Espionage Act.
Patrick Quinlan
Released
Patrick Quinlan was an Irish-American IWW orator and Socialist Party organizer who spoke alongside Elizabeth G...
Thomas Regan
Released
Thomas Regan was one of eleven people arrested in September 1926 in the Passaic textile-strike bomb prosecutio...
Roberto Rivera
Released
Roberto Rivera was an E.R hospital doctor who after becoming inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement began...
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