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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.

84Documented
0In custody
76Released

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 1970s 5

Documented cases

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

G
George Kowalsky
Released
George Kowalsky appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
J
Josh Kricker
Released
Josh Kricker was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.
J
John Kunz
Released
John Kunz, of New Britain, Connecticut, was convicted on May 28, 1918.
C
Cornelius Lehane
Released
Cornelius Lehane, from Cork County, Ireland. A Socialist and Irish Nationalist, Lehane worked both as a journa...
S
Steve Long
Released
Steve Long was the Breakfast Program coordinator for the Connecticut State Chapter of the Black Panther Party....
L
Loretta Luckes
Released
Loretta Luckes was a Black Panther from Bridgeport, Connecticut who was in New Haven on a weekend visit when s...
M
Mary Lyons
Released
Mary Lyons was a history teacher, mother of five, and grandmother from Hartford, Connecticut. She testified at...
R
Roberto Jose Maldonado
Released
Roberto Jose Maldonado was one of the defendants prosecuted in connection with the Los Macheteros–linked case...
A
Alfred Marder
Released
Alfred Marder, a New Haven printer, was one of the Connecticut Communists indicted in the New Haven Smith Act...
D
Donald Martin
Released
Donald Martin was a 20-year-old Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist who, with Bill Henry, swam to and bo...
C
Chuck Matthei
Released
Chuck Matthei was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.
L
Lonnie McLucas
Released
Lonnie McLucas was a Bridgeport, Connecticut member of the Black Panther Party and the only New Haven defendan...
D
Douglas Miranda
Released
Douglas Miranda was arrested with Boston Panthers after an August 1969 New Haven rally and held on bail in a r...
D
David Henry Mitchell III
Released
David Henry Mitchell III was a Connecticut draft resister whose 1965 conviction became a landmark of selective...
H
Hattie Nestel
Released
Hattie Nestel was an anti-nuclear activist who was jailed in connection with resistance to Trident submarines....
J
Jim Noonan
Released
Jim Noonan was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's Ha...
T
Tony Petnoshki
Released
Tony Petnoshki, a Socialist from Norwich, Connecticut, was sentenced to twenty years in prison. He served in A...
F
Fred Powers
Released
Fred Powers was a political prisoner in the Hartford County Jail, Connecticut in 1932, threatened with solitar...
D
Dave Quick
Released
Dave Quick was arrested with Boston Panthers after an August 1969 New Haven rally and held on bail in a rental...
T
Tim Quinn
Released
House painter from Hartford, CT; took part in the 1982 Trident Nein action aboard the USS Florida at Electric...
S
Sidney Resnek
Released
Sidney Resnek, a Connecticut printer, was one of the New Haven Smith Act defendants. After the original indict...
V
Victor Richman
Released
Victor Richman was a Columbia University student and anti-nuclear activist prosecuted with other Committee for...
C
Cal Robertson
Released
Cal Robertson was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's...
C
Charles Sahrbacher
Released
Charles Sahrbacher appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecuti...

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