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New Jersey
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.
148Documented
0In custody
133Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in New Jersey
Where New Jersey’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 25
1910s 24
1970s 23
1950s 16
1960s 14
2000s 12
Documented cases
148 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Sundiata Acoli
Released
Sundiata Acoli, born Clark Squire in Decatur, Texas in 1937, is a former NASA mathematician, member of the Har...
Ashanti Alston
Ashanti Alston organized within Black liberation politics in the early 1970s, first through the community-prog...
Amiri Baraka
Released
Everett LeRoi Jones — later the poet and playwright Amiri Baraka — was arrested and beaten by Newark police du...
Timothy Blunk
Released
Tim Blunk was a New Jersey activist arrested with Susan Rosenberg on November 29, 1984 in Cherry Hill while mo...
James Ellery Bristol
Released
James Ellery Bristol was an American peace activist and Lutheran minister who was imprisoned for conscientious...
Rubin Carter
Released
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a nationally ranked middleweight boxer when he was convicted of the Lafayette Bar...
Edward Childs
Released
Edward Childs was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 an...
Jacob Conroy
Released
Jacob Conroy was one of six SHAC USA activists indicted in May 2004 in the first federal prosecution under the...
Jake Conroy
Released
Jake Conroy is an American animal rights activist and vegan who became widely known for his role in Stop Hunti...
Inge Donato
Released
Inge Donato, known as Rose, was the bookkeeper for the McKee-Donato Construction Company and a member of the R...
Joseph Donato
Released
Joseph Donato, known as Joe, was a co-owner of the McKee-Donato Construction Company and a member of the Resto...
Father Michael Doyle
Released
Father Michael Doyle was an Irish-born Catholic priest of the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, longtime pastor a...
Michael Doyle
Released
Michael Doyle was one of the Irish coal miners hanged as a Molly Maguire in the Pennsylvania anthracite region...
Dominick Flaiani
Released
Dominick Flaiani was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930...
William Franklin
Released
William Franklin was the last royal Governor of New Jersey and the loyalist son of Benjamin Franklin. When the...
Darius Fullmer
Released
Darius Fullmer is an American animal rights activist who was also indicted and convicted as part of the SHAC 7...
Lauren Gazzola
Released
Lauren Gazzola is an American animal rights activist who served as a campaign coordinator for SHAC USA and was...
Helen Gershonowitz
Released
Helen Gershonowitz — Hinda to her Yiddish-speaking comrades, and about forty-two years old at the time of her...
Joe Gilbert
Released
Joe Gilbert was a militant leader of the 1934 New York City taxi drivers' strike. On June 2, 1935 he was arres...
Ted Goertzel
Released
Ted Goertzel was an 18-year-old visiting Antioch College student arrested at Princeton in the April 28, 1961 c...
Dozier Will Graham
Released
Dozier Will Graham was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 19...
Rudolf Grossmann
Released
Rudolf Grossmann was an anarchist arrested with William MacQueen and Luigi Galleani in connection with the 190...
Dmitriy Guzner
Released
Dimitry Guzner was charged with committing a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against the Scientolo...
Joshua Harper
Released
Joshua Harper is an American animal rights activist who was a coordinator for SHAC USA on the U.S. West Coast...
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
14 cases
Essex County JailNewark, New Jersey
9 cases
New Jersey State Prison, TrentonTrenton, New Jersey
6 cases
Passaic County JailPaterson, New Jersey
5 cases
U.S. District Court, District of New JerseyTrenton, New Jersey
3 cases
FCI Fort DixFort Dix, New Jersey
2 cases
Bergen County JailHackensack, New Jersey
2 cases