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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 York.
859Documented
24In custody
787Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in New York
Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1950s 137
1910s 137
1970s 87
1960s 87
1980s 81
1930s 65
Documented cases
859 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer
In Custody
Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, 25, Palestinian foreign national, was indicted August 28, 1997 for plotting to detonat...
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Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi
In Custody
Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi, age 62, was Monzer Al Kassars associate in the 2007 DEA-FARC arms-dealer sting. Convicte...
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Sam Brown
In Custody
Samuel Brown, who took the New Afrikan name Sekou Abdullah Mtetezi in prison, was a Black Liberation Army memb...
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John J. Ford
In Custody
John J. Ford, age 47, was president of the Long Island UFO Network. He and two co-conspirators were arrested i...
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Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy
In Custody
Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, a Chilean national age 60, was Monzer Al Kassars associate in the 2007 DEA-FARC arms...
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Karrem Nasr
In Custody
Karrem Nasr, 23, of New Jersey, was charged in late December 2023 by SDNY with attempting to join and provide...
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Irving Aarons
Released
Irving Aarons was an organizer for Local 1250 of the Department Store Employees Union and one of five leaders...
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Farouk Abdel-Muhti
Released
Palestinian human-rights activist and longtime WBAI radio programmer in New York City, born in Ramallah in 194...
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Shuaib Abdur Raheem
Released
Shuaib Abdur Raheem was the eldest of the four young Sunni Muslim men known as the Williamsburg Four. On Janua...
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Dawud Abdur Rahman
Released
Dawud Abdur Rahman is one of the four young Sunni Muslim men known as the Williamsburg Four. On January 18, 19...
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Hyman Abramowitz
Released
Hyman Abramowitz was one of the named participants in the 1935 'March of the Cripples' — a sit-in by disabled...
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Wil Ackalitis
Released
Wil Ackalitis was a New York longshoreman jailed for contempt in 1954 for his part in leading an International...
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Salvatore Adalchi
Released
Salvatore Adalchi was a needle-trades worker arrested on a New York picket line during the 1932 garment strike...
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Mark Adams
Released
Mark Adams, a long-term Occupy Wall Street organizer, was widely identified by the movement as OWS's first sen...
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Timothy Adams
Released
Timothy Adams was a 25-year-old man from Bennettsville, South Carolina, alleged to be a member of the Black Li...
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Nasser Ahmed
Released
Nasser Ahmed became a prominent figure in late-1990s civil-liberties disputes over the use of “secret evidence...
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Akil Al-Jundi
Released
Akil Al-Jundi (born Herbert Scott Dean in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) was sentenced to life for murder in...
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Clyde Allen
Released
Clyde Allen was framed as the Brooklyn tabloid "Hammer Man" and sentenced to thirty-five years before the ILD...
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Gus Alonen
Released
Gus Alonen, an IWW officer from the Bronx, served a sentence in Clinton and Comstock Prisons for violating New...
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Jose Gabriel Alvarez-Ortiz
Released
Jose Gabriel Alvarez-Ortiz, age 26, ELN member; detained in late 2020. Extradited and prosecuted in the Southe...
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Joseph Anderson
Released
Joseph Anderson was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Yassin Aref
Released
Yassin Aref is a Kurdish Iraqi imam who came to the United States as a UN refugee in 1999. He was the imam of...
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Olive Armstrong
Released
Olive Armstrong was one of the New York 8+ grand-jury resisters jailed for refusing to testify in the investig...
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Walter Armstrong
Released
Walter Armstrong was an ACT UP/New York activist. During the July 14, 1992 AIDS march in New York City he repo...
Institutions in New York
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in New York that appear in the census’s case files.
Ellis Island Immigration StationNew York, New York
184 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
17 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
14 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
11 cases
MDC BrooklynBrooklyn, New York
9 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
9 cases
Blackwell's Island PenitentiaryNew York, New York
8 cases