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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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Michael Dell
Michael Dell was an embroidery worker arrested for talking to strike pickets in Union City, New Jersey. The Au...
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Lizzie Dhunder
Released
Lizzie Dhunder was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age...
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Diamond (Newark eviction defense, 1934)
The Daily Worker of October 13, 1934, page 3, in a Newark dispatch dated October 11, identifies Diamond among...
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Elizabeth Elsa Diez
Elizabeth Elsa Diez was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glouce...
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Friedrich Franz Otto Diez
Friedrich Franz Otto Diez was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in...
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Kadeem A. Dockery
Released
On May 31, 2020 following protests in Trenton, NJ, Kadeem Dockery, 29, threw an explosive device through the o...
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Harry Doctor
Released
Harry Doctor was listed among silk-strike pickets arrested in Clifton, New Jersey, in the Revolutionary Age of...
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Max Dreiger
Max Dreiger was a Furniture Workers Industrial Union member whose arrest in Jersey City was reported in May 19...
E
Earlja Dudley
Released
Attempted arson of a Trenton police vehicle (2020, federal civil disorder). Sentence: 30 months federal prison...
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Robert W. Dunn
Released
Robert W. Dunn of the American Civil Liberties Union was arrested on the Passaic textile-strike picket line. A...
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Tom Ennis
Released
Tom Ennis was jailed for a nonviolent anti-nuclear protest at the RCA plant in Moorestown, New Jersey, on Apri...
A
Amile Falcon
Amile Falcon was individually named among five RCA strikers indicted by a Camden grand jury on seven counts, a...
D
David Farber
Released
David Farber was arrested in Newark, New Jersey on January 29, 1936 in connection with the Lackawanna laundry...
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Myron Farber
Myron Farber was a New York Times reporter jailed in New Jersey after refusing to provide his reporting notes...
B
Barry Farmer
Released
Barry Farmer was an Atlantic City NCCF defendant whose jail confinement was reported in 1970. The local defens...
T
Theo Fedotoff
Released
Theo Fedotoff was a Socialist from Bayonne, New Jersey. Theo Fedotoff began serving a prison sentence for obst...
E
Eugene Feuchter
Eugene Feuchter was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester...
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Frank Fiorito
Frank Fiorito was vice-president of the Newark Teachers Union and was imprisoned for contempt of court arising...
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Ross Flanagan
Ross Flanagan is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated part...
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George Ford
Released
George Ford appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Peter Fordi
Released
Jesuit priest, age 35 at indictment, based at Woodstock Religious College, NYC; native of Jersey City who ente...
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Robert Foris
Released
Robert Foris appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Julia B. Forsythe
Julia B. Forsythe is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associated...
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Christian Fuhr
Christian Fuhr was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester...

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