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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
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.
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Daniel Bennett
Released
Daniel Bennett appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
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William Betsch
William Betsch, a representative of the AFL Woodcutters Association, was arrested at Journal Square, Jersey Ci...
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Carl Eugen Betzler
Carl Eugen Betzler was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouces...
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Tony Bezich
Released
Tony Bezich was a Communist candidate for state legislator in New Jersey in 1932. He served a 90-day jail sent...
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Milo Billman
Released
Rev. Milo Billman, a Lutheran minister ordained in 1958, was the only Protestant clergyman among the Camden 28...
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Sarah Blecher
Sarah Blecher was a Furniture Workers Industrial Union member jailed in the Jersey City campaign against Mayor...
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Sarah Bleeker
Released
Sarah Bleeker was arrested for picketing during the 1934 furniture-workers' strike in Jersey City, New Jersey,...
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Blokesberg (Newark eviction defense, 1934)
The Daily Worker of October 13, 1934, page 3, in a Newark dispatch dated October 11, identifies Blokesberg amo...
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Essie Bloomen
Essie Bloomen was named among six Newark leather-strike pickets held without bail after arrests reported in th...
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Sylvia Bloomen
Sylvia Bloomen was named among six Newark leather-strike pickets held without bail after arrests reported in t...
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Kathe Cohen Bluhdorn
Kathe Cohen Bluhdorn was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouc...
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O. Blumenburg
Released
O. Blumenburg was a member of the Communist Party’s New Jersey state election campaign committee. The Daily Wo...
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Sam Blumenthal
Sam Blumenthal was sentenced to three months in jail by Judge Simondle in Newark First Precinct Court on March...
A
Albert Adu Boampong
Albert Adu Boampong, a Ghanaian asylum seeker and father of two, was detained at Elizabeth Detention Center fr...
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Ernst Herman Boehm
Ernst Herman Boehm was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouces...
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Heinrich F. Boller
Heinrich F. Boller was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouces...
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R. Bonton
R. Bonton was arrested at 4 p.m. Friday September 26,1930 outside the Standard Oil plant in Bayonne, New Jerse...
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Frederick Sumner Boyd
Released
Frederick Sumner Boyd was a British-born IWW soapboxer and former Socialist Party speaker who traveled to Pate...
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Rebecca Brodkin
Rebecca Brodkin was a Newark Communist activist and wife of carpenters-union leader Samuel Brodkin. Grover ide...
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Samuel Brodkin
Samuel Brodkin was a leader of Newarks Communist carpenters local, husband of Rebecca Brodkin and father of Lu...
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Donald Brown
Donald Brown was a Pacific Coast Marine Firemen’s Union member imprisoned with Edward Woodworth following the...
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John Brown (Fort Dix organizer, 1969)
John Brown was a Black soldier held at Fort Dix while awaiting proceedings for an alleged two-year absence wit...
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Lawrence Brown
Lawrence Brown was an eighteen-year-old defendant in the prosecution of twelve Black residents after the 1967...
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Paul Brown (Bayonne, 1931)
Released
Paul Brown was an unemployed-workers organizer detained at the Bayonne, New Jersey police station after asking...
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