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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.
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.
Albert Hedar
Released
Albert Hedar was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 and...
Alison Turnbull Hopkins
Released
New Jersey NWP organizer and Silent Sentinel. Arrested in 1917 for picketing the Wilson White House for women'...
Abraham Isserman
Released
Abraham J. Isserman was a defense lawyer at the 1949 Foley Square Smith Act trial of the eleven Communist Part...
William Jasmagy
Released
William Jasmagy was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
Garrett Jones
Released
Garrett Jones was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Yū Kikumura
Released
Yū Kikumura was a member of the Japanese Red Army, an armed militant organization who while in the United Stat...
Frederick Krafft
Released
Frederick Krafft, an editor and a socialist politician from Ridgefield, New Jersey, was sentenced to five year...
Morris Langer
Released
Morris Langer was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 an...
Samuel D. Levine
Released
Samuel D. Levine was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930...
Howard Levy
Released
Captain Howard Levy was an Army dermatologist at Fort Jackson, South Carolina who in 1966 refused orders to tr...
James Lustig
Released
James Lustig was a United Electrical Workers organizer awaiting trial in 1951 for inciting to riot during the...
Ojore Lutalo
Released
Ojore Nuru Lutalo is a Black anarchist who upon his release from prison has become an acclaimed artist display...
William MacQueen
Released
William MacQueen was an anarchist editor arrested after the 1902 Paterson silk strike. He was convicted on a p...
Carlos Matchett
Released
Carlos Matchett is an Atlantic City, New Jersey man who set fire to an overturned Philadelphia police car on M...
LaMonica McIver
Awaiting Trial
LaMonica McIver is the U.S. Representative for New Jerseys 10th congressional district and the first Black wom...
Kevin McKee
Released
Kevin McKee was a co-owner of the McKee-Donato Construction Company and a member of the Restored Israel of YAH...
Abdulrahman Odeh
Released
Abdulrahman Odeh was a leader of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a United States–based Mu...
John Pado
Released
John Pado was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 and in...
Patrick Quinlan
Released
Patrick Quinlan was an Irish-American IWW orator and Socialist Party organizer who spoke alongside Elizabeth G...
Roberto Rivera
Roberto Rivera was an E.R hospital doctor who after becoming inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement began...
Jack Rubenstein
Released
Jack Rubenstein, a young picket-line leader of the 1926 Passaic textile strike, was arrested repeatedly and be...
Assata Shakur
Released
Assata Shakur (birth name Joanne Chesimard) was a leader of the BLA and the Black Panthers alleged to be the c...
Andrew Stepanian
Released
Andrew Stepanian is an American animal rights activist and one of the SHAC 7 defendants who was convicted in 2...
Bill Sutherland
Released
Bill Sutherland refused to cooperate with Second World War conscription — objecting both to war and to serving...
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