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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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Rose Brown
Rose Brown was the local Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union organizer leading the Princess Dress Shop stri...
T
Trisha Brownlee
Awaiting Trial
Trisha Brownlee is an independent photographer and disabled military veteran arrested by New Jersey State Poli...
T
Terry Buckalew
Released
Age 21 at indictment; valedictorian of Wildwood Catholic High School, NJ, and recipient of a John F. Kennedy a...
C
Clyde Burton
Released
Clyde Burton was an Atlantic City NCCF defendant whose jail confinement was reported in 1970. The local defens...
A
Adolf Busch
Adolf Busch was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester Cit...
M
Mohammed Rafiq Butt
Released
Mohammed Rafiq Butt was a 55-year-old Pakistani national held on immigration charges during the detentions fol...
F
Frank Carlson (New Jersey YCL, 1935)
Frank Carlson, a New Jersey district organizer of the Young Communist League, was among twelve youths arrested...
B
Ben Carreathers
Ben Carreathers was named with TonyMinerich and PeteChaypa among Pennsylvania/Ohio mine leaders held at Jersey...
S
Susan Carroll
Susan Carroll is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated part...
A
Anna Catrona
Anna Catrona is individually named as a woman Passaic striker given a jail sentence in the May 1927 Labor Defe...
J
James Cherry
Released
James Cherry was an Atlantic City NCCF defendant whose jail confinement was reported in 1970. The local defens...
R
Ralph Cobb
Ralph Cobb, called Buddha by the Black Panther Party, was held through repeated jail transfers while his famil...
F
Francesco Coco
Released
Francesco Coco was individually named among seven workers actually arrested for distributing United Front leaf...
S
Samuel Cohn
Released
Samuel Cohn was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age of...
D
Daniel Cory
Released
Daniel Cory of Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested under a Secretary of State order dated September 14,...
R
Raffaele Coviella
Raffaele Coviella was individually named among seven workers actually arrested for distributing United Front l...
T
Tom Crawford
Released
Tom Crawford was a Black farm worker and union leader in the 1934 Seabrook Farms strike near Bridgeton, New Je...
J
Julian Crofton
Released
Julian Crofton was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
D
Dale Speers Cunningham
Dale Speers Cunningham was a former Rutgers University professor and translator of Spanish, French and Italian...
C
Charles Current
The January 28, 1927 Paterson dispatch names Charles Current as the non-striker sentenced with five Passaic te...
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Lief Dahl
Lief Dahl is individually named with Vivian Dahl and Donald and Elinor Henderson as seized on conspiracy accus...
V
Vivian Dahl
Vivian Dahl, an organizer of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, was reported jailed with D...
E
E. De Pico
Released
E. De Pico was a seamen’s-strike picket imprisoned at Hoboken, New Jersey in1936. The Daily Worker of July30 n...
T
Thomas DeFatzio
Released
Thomas De Fatzio was individually named among seven workers actually arrested for distributing United Front le...

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