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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.

E
Edgar H. Furlong
Edgar H. Furlong, age 34, was a striking relief worker in Nutley, New Jersey. The September 13 news entry repo...
G
Giuseppe Gardellin
Giuseppe Gardellin was a civilian internee listed at the US Immigration Station in Gloucester City, New Jersey...
E
Ernest Gellert
Released
Ernest Gellert was a Hungarian-American socialist and conscientious objector, the younger brother of the radic...
L
Letty Gennet
Letty Gennet was named among the speakers beaten and arrested when police broke up the Trenton Communist elect...
H
Howard Ay Gibbs
Released
Camden, New Jersey Black community anti-drug organizer serving a maximum 80-year sentence at Trenton State Pri...
M
Michael Giocondo
Released
Michael Giocondo was a former Franciscan brother (12 years, stationed in Costa Rica and Washington DC), age 42...
P
Phillip Goguen
Released
Phillip Goguen appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
B
Ben Golden
Ben Golden was stage director of the New Theatre Group. The Daily Worker of June 3, 1935, page 2, names him am...
J
Joseph Goldstone
Released
Joseph Goldstone was a seamen’s-strike picket imprisoned at Hoboken, New Jersey in1936. The Daily Worker of Ju...
L
Lillian Gordon
Page 2 reports Paterson police arrested Lillian Gordon while distributing a union strike leaflet to throwsters...
I
Ina Nina M. A. Gotthelf
Ina Nina M. A. Gotthelf was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Gl...
I
Irene Alexandra Gotthelf
Irene Alexandra Gotthelf was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in G...
J
Jack Grabinski
Released
Jack Grabinski was individually named among seven workers actually arrested for distributing United Front leaf...
M
Mary Ellen Grafflin
Mary Ellen Grafflin is individually named in the September 1, 1972 Friends Journal among Friends and associate...
E
Elijah Graham
Released
Elijah Graham was a Philadelphia Black Panther Party member arrested in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on July 4,...
E
Edward Grand
Released
Edward Grand was a striking seaman imprisoned in the 1936 maritime labor struggle in New Jersey. Contemporary...
J
John Grass
Released
John Grass was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
D
Donald Bruce Grumbles
Donald Bruce Grumbles was imprisoned for civil contempt after refusing testimony in a Camden federal grand-jur...
P
Patricia Grumbles
Patricia Grumbles was imprisoned for civil contempt after refusing testimony in a Camden federal grand-jury in...
F
Frank Grumman
Released
Frank Grumman was a New Jersey unionist prosecuted for refusing to answer House Un-American Activities Committ...
G
George Erich Guenther
George Erich Guenther was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at the US Immigration Station in Glou...
R
Riaglia Gugliucci
Riaglia Gugliucci was individually named among seven workers actually arrested for distributing United Front l...
A
A. Hader
The February 11 Newark dispatch identifies these workers among nine arrested at the unemployed meeting, 93 Mer...
P
Peter Halonen
Released
Peter Halonen appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...

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