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New York

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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Patsy Augustine
Released
Patsy Augustine was a member of the Cafeteria Workers' Union in New York City arrested on a trumped-up charge...
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Khalid Awan
Released
Khalid Awan, 50, Pakistani foreign national, was indicted October 25, 2006 for providing material support to K...
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Wallace Baker
Released
One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...
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Arthur Barber
Bronx man ordered released or retried after nearly 10 years when Judge Constance Baker Motley ruled his murder...
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Lloyd Barenblatt
Released
Lloyd Barenblatt was a psychology instructor at Vassar College who in June 1954 was subpoenaed by the House Un...
A
Arthur Majid Barnes
Arthur Majid Barnes, also named Arthur Majeed Barnes, was a member of the Black Men's Movement Against Crack....
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Luis Barrios
Released
Father Luis Barrios is a Puerto Rican-born Episcopal priest, professor of psychology at John Jay College of Cr...
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Phil Bart
Released
Phil Bart was a former general manager of the Daily Worker cited for contempt of Congress after refusing, on c...
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Philip Bart
Released
Philip Bart was the general manager of the Communist Daily Worker, convicted of contempt of Congress in 1951 (...
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Scott L. Bassoff
Released
Scott L. Bassoff was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
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Jamie Bauer
Released
Jamie Bauer is a New York activist and direct-action trainer involved in Women's Pentagon Action and ACT UP. T...
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Carlos Bayon
Released
Carlos Bayon, age 63, of Buffalo NY, was charged with interstate communication of threats for calling the offi...
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Morris Becker
Released
Morris Becker, an anarchist and a vegetarian from New York, New York, was sentenced to a year and eight months...
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John J. Belford
Released
John J. Belford was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Mary Beatrice Belfrage
Released
Mary Beatrice Belfrage was arrested in 1953 for deportation over alleged Communist activity years earlier, in...
J
Josephine Bell
Released
Poet and Masses contributor. Indicted in November 1917 along with editor Max Eastman, John Reed, and the staff...
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Judy Bello
Released
Judy Bello is a peace activist from Rochester, New York and member of Upstate Drone Action, a coalition that o...
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Haydée Beltrán Torres
Released
Marie Haydée Beltrán Torres was a member of the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional), the clandestine...
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Don Benedict
Released
One of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on October 16, 1940, the...
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Lori Berenson
Released
U.S. activist arrested in Lima, Peru in 1995 and convicted by a hooded military tribunal of treason for allege...
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Leopold Bergman
Released
Leopold Bergman was a New York anarchist — very likely the Yiddish-language anarchist writer and editor of tha...
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Jacqueline Bernard
Released
Jacqueline Bernard, also reported as Jackie Bernard, was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister. She spent months i...
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Arnold Bernardini
Released
Arnold Bernardini was arrested for disorderly conduct while picketing in Brooklyn in November 1954 — one of th...
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Edilberto Berrio Ortiz
Released
Edilberto Berrio Ortiz, age 34, FARC 57th Front member; convicted at trial. 204 months federal prison + superv...

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