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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.
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Tom Crawford
Released
Tom Crawford was a leader of the 1934 Seabrook Farms agricultural strike in New Jersey, arrested in the crackd...
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Julian Crofton
Released
Julian Crofton was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Eugene Dixon
Released
Eugene "Gene" Dixon was a Camden resident, father of four, and a longtime supervisor for a Philadelphia automo...
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Kadeem A. Dockery
Released
On May 31, 2020 following protests in Trenton, NJ, Kadeem Dockery, 29, threw an explosive device through the o...
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Earlja Dudley
Released
Attempted arson of a Trenton police vehicle (2020, federal civil disorder). Sentence: 30 months federal prison...
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Collis English
One of the Trenton Six. The Trenton Six were six young Black men arrested February 11, 1948 and charged with t...
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Barry Farmer
Barry Farmer was an Atlantic City NCCF defendant whose jail confinement was reported in 1970. The local defens...
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Theo Fedotoff
Released
Theo Fedotoff, a Socialist from Bayonne, New Jersey, began serving a prison sentence for obstructing recruitme...
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Phoenix Feeley
Released
Phoenix Feeley (legal name Jill Coccaro) is a New York City-based artist and fire-eating performer who was arr...
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Peter Fordi
Released
Jesuit priest, age 35 at indictment, based at Woodstock Religious College, NYC; native of Jersey City who ente...
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McKinley Forrest
Released
Trenton Six defendant. Acquitted on retrial 1951.
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Ernest Gellert
Ernest Gellert was a Hungarian-American socialist and conscientious objector, the younger brother of the radic...
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Howard Ay Gibbs
Camden, New Jersey Black community anti-drug organizer serving a maximum 80-year sentence at Trenton State Pri...
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Michael Giocondo
Released
Former Franciscan brother (12 years, stationed in Costa Rica and Washington DC), age 42 at indictment. Worked...
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John Grass
Released
John Grass was a conscientious objector from New Jersey imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Carole Graves
Released
Carole A. Graves was the president of the Newark Teachers Union (American Federation of Teachers Local 481) du...
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Frank Grumman
Released
Frank Grumman, a New Jersey unionist, was indicted for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer a House com...
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Louis Harris
Released
Louis Harris, who was at work in another shop at the time of the fight, was one of five National Textile Worke...
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Donald Henderson
Released
Donald Henderson was a leader of the 1934 Seabrook Farms agricultural strike in New Jersey, arrested in the cr...
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Elinor Henderson
Released
Elinor Henderson was a leader of the 1934 Seabrook Farms agricultural strike in New Jersey, arrested in the cr...
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Charles Hicks
Charles Hicks was a Jersey City Panther held in Hudson County Jail before trial over an alleged police-station...
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Alfred H. Hirsch
Released
Alfred H. Hirsch was secretary of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners — the intellec...
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Daniel Hogan
Daniel Hogan, 21, was a prisoner at Trenton State Prison in New Jersey who was to be a key witness against gua...
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Albert Kalzenbuch
Released
Albert Kalzenbuch, one of the five silk workers charged, was one of five National Textile Workers' Union membe...
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