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Connecticut

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 Connecticut.

80Documented
0In custody
72Released

Eras of repression in Connecticut

Where Connecticut’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1960s 33 1910s 11 1980s 8 1950s 7 1990s 6 2000s 3

Documented cases

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

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William Boston
Released
William Boston was a house painter and peace worker living in New Haven, Connecticut at the time of Trident II...
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Frances Carter
Released
Frances Carter was secretary of the New Haven chapter of the Black Panther Party, arrested in 1969 in connecti...
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John Cheetum
Released
John Cheetum was arrested with Boston Panthers after an August 1969 New Haven rally and held on bail in a rent...
J
Jeremiah Decessa
Released
Jeremiah Decessa was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Connecticut imprisoned during World War...
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Joseph Dimow
Released
Joseph Dimow was a Connecticut Communist who held local party offices in the late 1940s and served on the part...
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Moses Dunbar
Moses Dunbar was a Connecticut farmer and Anglican convert who took the side of the Crown. Having accepted a c...
G
George Edwards
Released
George Edwards was one of the two men (with Warren Kimbro) among the New Haven Black Panthers arrested in the...
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Robert Champion Ekins
Released
Robert Champion Ekins was the Communist Party's Connecticut state secretary in the early 1950s. He was one of...
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Ludwig Evanicki
Released
Ludwig Evanicki appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
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Theodore E. Falatovitch
Released
Theodore E. Falatovitch was a conscientious objector from Connecticut imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Russell Ford
Released
First New Englander since the U.S. war in Indochina to be indicted for nonregistration. Arrested for refusal t...
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V. Gaudenzi
Released
V. Gaudenzi was an Italian-American anti-fascist held in the New London, Connecticut jail in 1928 on a charge...
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Chris Gifford
Released
Chris Gifford was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.
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Jacob Goldring
Released
Jacob Goldring was a Connecticut Communist and member of the party's state committee through the late 1940s an...
R
Rory Hithe
Released
Rory Hithe was one of the national Black Panther Party enforcers sent from the West Coast to New Haven in May...
M
Margaret Hudgins
Released
Margaret "Peggy" Hudgins was one of the six women of the New Haven Black Panther chapter arrested in 1969 in c...
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William Jackson
Released
William Jackson was arrested with Boston Panthers after an August 1969 New Haven rally and held on bail in a r...
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Fleming Jordan
Released
Fleming Jordan appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
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David Kaplan
Released
David Kaplan was jailed thirty-six days in the 1935 Bridgeport, Connecticut student-strike case, one of the yo...
B
Brian Kavanagh
Released
Brian Kavanagh was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman'...
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Vincent Kay
Released
Vincent Kay was a house painter and poet from New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Covenant Peace Commu...
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Warren Kimbro
Released
Warren Kimbro was the New Haven Black Panther in whose apartment Alex Rackley was held, and who fired the firs...
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George Kowalsky
Released
George Kowalsky appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
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Josh Kricker
Released
Josh Kricker was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.

Institutions in Connecticut

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Connecticut that appear in the census’s case files.

FCI DanburyDanbury, Connecticut
19 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, DanburyDanbury, Connecticut
12 cases
Carl Robinson Correctional InstitutionEnfield, Connecticut
4 cases
Connecticut Correctional Institution, Niantic (state prison for women)Niantic, Connecticut
4 cases
General Dynamics Electric Boat (USS Florida) — Trident Nein
3 cases
Electric Boat, Groton (USS Pennsylvania) — Kairos Plowshares
3 cases
New Haven County JailNew Haven, Connecticut
2 cases
Naval Underwater Systems Center, New London (USS Pennsylvania) — Thames River Plowshares
2 cases