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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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Anson K. Burrill
Released
Anson K. Burrill was one of the first Anti-Rent prisoners, prosecuted under New York's new law against appeari...
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John Burtch
Released
John Burtch was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersh...
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Carleton Campbell
Released
Carleton Campbell was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Efrain Antonio Campo Flores
Released
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, nephew of Cilia Flores and step-nephew of Nicolas Maduro, was arrested in Port-au...
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Amber Canavan
Released
Amber Canavan is an animal-rights activist and Animal Protection and Rescue League volunteer. She investigated...
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Mathilda Carman
Released
Mathilda Carman was a New York City Department of Welfare case worker convicted of perjury in November 1957 fo...
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Jack Carney
Released
Jack Carney was a class-war prisoner (No. 59755) writing to the ILD from Welfare Island, New York in 1935.
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Frank Carone
Released
Frank Carone was a one-armed Italian youth sentenced to a year in the Utica, New York unemployed-council case....
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Owen Carron
Released
Owen Carron was the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP who succeeded Bobby Sands. He was jailed in Buffalo after at...
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Lateefah Carter
Released
Black liberation activist charged as a New York 8+ defendant in the October 17-18, 1984 federal RICO indictmen...
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Ruth Carter
Released
Black liberation activist charged as a New York 8+ defendant in the October 17-18, 1984 federal RICO indictmen...
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Anderson Chamapuro Dogirama
Released
Anderson Chamapuro Dogirama, age 28, FARC 57th Front member; convicted at trial. 120 months federal prison + s...
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Roger Champen
Released
Roger Champen was one of the Attica Brothers — prisoners indicted after the September 1971 uprising at New Yor...
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Mike Charles
Released
Mike Charles was one of the five Utica unemployed defendants in the Utica, New York unemployed-council case. F...
C
Coltrane Chimurenga
Released
Black liberation organizer, December 12th Movement field marshal, and the federal government's named 'ringlead...
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Paul Cinat
Released
Paul Cinat of Clinton Corners, New York was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation in a November 1953...
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Dorie Clay
Released
Dorie Clay, also reported as Dori or Dorrie Clay, was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister and the spouse of defe...
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Omowale Clay
Released
Black liberation organizer and longtime co-founder of the December 12th Movement, charged as a New York 8+ def...
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William Clay
Released
William Clay was a one-armed dock worker clubbed unconscious and then charged with felonious assault in the 19...
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Eddie Clemens
Released
Eddie Clemens was a Pentecostal conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Charles Clodi
Released
Charles Clodi was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Ira Cobb
Released
Defendant in the federal prosecutions following the October 1, 1851 Jerry Rescue in Syracuse, NY — when a mult...
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Mitch Cohen
Released
Mitch Cohen was a Stony Brook campus activist jailed after his arrest while challenging exclusion from campus....
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Stanley Cohen
Released
Stanley L. Cohen is an American radical defense attorney known for representing politically targeted clients i...

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