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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.
Shavone Torres
Released
Shavone Torres, age 39, of Pennsauken NJ, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.
James W. Wall
Released
James W. Wall was a New Jersey Democratic politician and newspaper editor arrested in September 1861 for his a...
Arthur Lee Washington Jr.
Arthur Lee Washington Jr. was a Black Liberation Army-associated activist wanted for allegedly shooting at and...
Albert Weisbord
Released
Albert Weisbord, the young Harvard-trained organizer who led the great 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strike...
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Jayma Abdoo
Released
Jayma A. Abdoo (1951 – August 2006) was the youngest documented member of the Camden 28, twenty at the 1971 in...
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Americo V. Alexander
Released
Americo V. Alexander was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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William Anderson
Released
Dr. William A. Anderson was an osteopathic physician in Westmont, New Jersey, thirty-six at the Camden 28 indi...
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John Artis
Released
John Artis was a 19-year-old with no criminal record, convicted alongside Carter; he stood by Carter's innocen...
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Martha Stone Asher
Released
Martha Stone Asher was a New Jersey Communist seized from the Party's underground in 1954 during the McCarthy...
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Joseph Baker
Released
Joseph Baker was among the roughly ninety strikers arrested during the June–July 1936 RCA-Victor strike at Cam...
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Lewis Bart
Released
Lewis Bart, a father of three who was several blocks from the scene, was one of five National Textile Workers'...
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Joseph Bellene
Released
Joseph Bellene was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" frame-up...
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Milo Billman
Released
Rev. Milo Billman, a Lutheran minister ordained in 1958, was the only Protestant clergyman among the Camden 28...
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Alfred M. Bingham
Released
Alfred M. Bingham was the editor of the independent-radical magazine Common Sense who was arrested with Corlis...
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Sarah Bleeker
Released
Sarah Bleeker was arrested for picketing during the 1934 furniture-workers' strike in Jersey City, New Jersey,...
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Frederick Sumner Boyd
Released
Frederick Sumner Boyd was a British-born IWW soapboxer and former Socialist Party speaker who traveled to Pate...
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Terry Buckalew
Released
Age 21 at indictment; valedictorian of Wildwood Catholic High School, NJ, and recipient of a John F. Kennedy a...
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Jeff Burkitt
Released
Jeff Burkitt was jailed for six months for attempting to speak in Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey, in...
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Clyde Burton
Clyde Burton was an Atlantic City NCCF defendant whose jail confinement was reported in 1970. The local defens...
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Mohammed Rafiq Butt
Mohammed Rafiq Butt was a 55-year-old Pakistani man swept up in the post-September 11 dragnet on September 19,...
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James Carey
Released
James B. Carey was the national president of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America (CIO), arreste...
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James Cherry
James Cherry was an Atlantic City NCCF defendant whose jail confinement was reported in 1970. The local defens...
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Kevin Chianella
Released
Kevin Chianella is a New Jersey activist who traveled to Toronto, Canada as a teenager to protest the G-20 Sum...
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Ralph Cooper
Released
Trenton Six defendant. Pleaded guilty at retrial — life imprisonment; paroled 1954.
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