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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

Documented cases

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

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Camelia Crempa
Camelia Crempa was detained after deputy sheriffs killed her mother Sophie and wounded her father John during...
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John Crempa Jr.
John Crempa Jr. was arrested at work during the September 1935 public-utility dispute involving his family in...
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Romain Johnson
Romain Johnson was a farmhand held in Cumberland County, New Jersey, in 1935, initially on an alleged technica...
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Clarence Hill
Clarence Hill appears in a prisoner-aid committee list published by Laisvė on December 19, 1953. The article i...
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Jayma Abdoo
Released
Jayma A. Abdoo (1951 – August 2006) was the youngest documented member of the Camden 28, twenty at the 1971 in...
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Sylvia After
The February 11 Newark dispatch identifies these workers among nine arrested at the unemployed meeting, 93 Mer...
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Rizza Jane Guanao Aganan
Rizza Jane Guanao Aganan, a Filipina immigrant and mother of two, was held at Elizabeth Detention Center begin...
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Americo V. Alexander
Released
Americo V. Alexander was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Michael Alexander
Released
Michael Alexander was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary A...
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Kurt Allen
Released
Kurt Allen was a young worker arrested in Newark, New Jersey, for distributing leaflets to employees of Ohrbac...
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William Anderson
Released
Dr. William A. Anderson was an osteopathic physician in Westmont, New Jersey, thirty-six at the Camden 28 indi...
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Robert L. Anthony
Robert L. Anthony is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated...
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Cliff Arnesen
Cliff Arnesen, a U.S. Army veteran and later president of New England Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Veterans, descri...
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Martha Stone Asher
Released
Martha Stone Asher was a labor organizer in the 1926 Passaic textile strike and later chaired the New Jersey C...
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Sarah Jean Avery
Sarah Jean Avery is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated p...
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Joseph Baker
Released
Joseph Baker supported the 1936 RCA-Victor strike in Camden, New Jersey. Police arrested him while he sat in h...
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Luther Baldwin
Released
Luther Baldwin was an army veteran and garbage boat captain who in July of 1798, was drinking at a tavern in N...
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Jonathan Bart
Released
Jonathan Bart was identified in contemporary rosters of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resist...
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Lewis Bart
Released
Lewis Bart was a member of the National Textile Workers Union charged with first-degree murder during the 1931...
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Louis Bart
Released
Louis Bart was a National Textile Workers Union defendant in the1931 Paterson silk-strike prosecution followin...
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William Christian Bauerle
William Christian Bauerle was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in...
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Hans Joseph Baum
Hans Joseph Baum was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouceste...
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Joseph Behemer
Joseph Behemer, whose surname is retained as printed, was a member of the union legal committee during the Cam...
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Joseph Bellene
Released
Joseph Bellene was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" frame-up...

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