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New Hampshire
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 Hampshire.
30Documented
1In custody
29Released
Eras of repression in New Hampshire
Where New Hampshire’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1970s 9
2020s 6
1950s 6
2000s 3
1910s 3
2010s 1
Documented cases
30 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Ian Freeman
In Custody
Ian Freeman (born Ian Bernard) is a libertarian talk-radio host and activist serving an eight-year federal sen...
Paige Belanger
Released
Paige Belanger is one of the Merrimack Four. On November 20, 2023, four young women — Calla Walsh, Sophie Ross...
Homer Chase
Released
Homer Chase was a Communist and the son of Elba Chase Nelson, prosecuted under New Hampshire's 1951 anti-subve...
Aria DiMezzo
Released
Aria DiMezzo is a transgender anarchist activist from Keene, New Hampshire, and a figure in the Free Keene / F...
Tyler N. McFarland
Released
Tyler N. McFarland, age 27, of Dover NH, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.
Macy Morse
Released
Macy Morse was a mother and grandmother from Nashua, NH whose three oldest sons served in the military, one in...
Parker Pillsbury
Released
Parker Pillsbury was a New Hampshire abolitionist lecturer and nonresistant who, with Stephen Foster and other...
Sophie Ross
Released
Sophie Marika Ross, 22, co-founder of Palestine Action US, was indicted February 23, 2024 for the November 20,...
Bridget Shergalis
Released
Bridget Irene Shergalis, 27, of Dayville CT, Palestine Action US member; co-defendant in the November 2023 Elb...
Paul Sweezy
Released
Paul Sweezy was editor of the Monthly Review who was jailed and cited for refusing the New Hampshire attorney-...
Calla Walsh
Released
Calla Mairead Walsh, 19, of Cambridge MA, Palestine Action US member; co-defendant in the November 2023 Elbit...
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Arnie Alpert
Released
Arnie Alpert participated in the Clamshell Alliance occupation of the Seabrook nuclear construction site in 19...
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Elba Chase Nelson
Released
Elba Chase Nelson was the 1938 Communist gubernatorial candidate in New Hampshire, prosecuted under the state'...
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Guy Chichester
Released
Navy veteran who moved from Long Island to Rye, NH, was a co-founder of the Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and a p...
R
Robert Reynolds Cushing Jr.
Released
Lifelong Hampton, NH activist. Co-founded the Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and was among the more than 1,400 pro...
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Hugo DeGregory
Released
Hugo DeGregory was a one-time Communist candidate for lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, jailed for civil c...
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Court Dorsey
Released
Court Dorsey joined the Clamshell Alliance occupation at Seabrook with the Crumbs of Bliss affinity group in 1...
P
Paul Gunter
Released
One of the original 18 Clamshell Alliance members arrested at Seabrook on August 1, 1976 — the action that lau...
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Otto Inglehardt
Released
Otto Inglehardt, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was prosecuted at Concord, New Hampshire for violating the espi...
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Harold Marcuse
Released
Harold Marcuse participated in the 1977 Clamshell Alliance occupation at Seabrook while a Wesleyan student. He...
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Ruth McKay
Released
Ruth McKay was arrested December 4, 2000 for trespass / disorderly conduct at the British Aerospace plant in N...
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Howard Morland
Released
Former U.S. Air Force C-141 pilot trained to ferry nuclear weapons who became, in 1979, the journalist who "di...
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Hattie Nestle
Released
Hattie Nestle was arrested December 4, 2000 for trespass / disorderly conduct at the British Aerospace plant i...
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Irma Otto
Released
Irma Otto was the Progressive Party state chairman in New Hampshire, subpoenaed under the state's 1951 anti-su...
Institutions in New Hampshire
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in New Hampshire that appear in the census’s case files.
Hillsborough County House of Corrections (Nashua)Nashua, New Hampshire
3 cases
Valley Street House of CorrectionsManchester, New Hampshire
3 cases
Hillsborough County House of CorrectionsManchester, New Hampshire
1 case
New Hampshire State PrisonConcord, New Hampshire
1 case