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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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Charles Collins
Released
Charles Collins, once head of the New York Hotel Trades Union, was among the foreign-born Americans facing den...
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Juanito Cordoba-Bermudez
Released
Juanito Cordoba-Bermudez, FARC 57th Front member, was extradited and pleaded guilty to material-support conspi...
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William Craig
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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Daniel Crawford
Released
Daniel Crawford was one of the Fort Worth Five, five Irish-American men jailed in Texas in 1972 for refusing t...
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James Cromitie
Released
James Cromitie was a Newburgh, New York Walmart employee and convicted petty criminal at the time he was appro...
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Carol Crooks
Released
Carol Crooks was a Black woman imprisoned at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in New York who...
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Eduardo Cruz
Released
Eduardo "Pancho" Cruz was a young Puerto Rican independence activist who became the subject of a 1972 defense...
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Manuel Cuevas Diaz
Released
Manuel Cuevas Diaz was an anti-Franco Spanish Republican veteran held since 1952 for deportation. His deportat...
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Ward Clarence Daisenberger
Released
Ward Clarence Daisenberger was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during Wo...
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William Daley
Released
William Daley was arrested at the United Nations in 1954 and committed to the Bellevue psychiatric ward for pr...
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Meredith Dallas
Released
One of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on October 16, 1940, the...
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Peter Darck
Released
Peter Darck was a militant window washer jailed on Welfare Island, New York in 1930 for strike activity, writi...
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Felton Davis
Released
Felton Davis is a New York Catholic Worker arrested at the Pentagon on August 1999 for refusing to leave the P...
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Gerald De Cessa
Released
Gerald De Cessa was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Ronald DeRisi
Released
Ronald DeRisi, age 74, of Smithtown NY, was arrested in 2018 for threatening to murder and assault two U.S. Se...
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Richard Delaney
Released
Richard Delaney was a grand jury resister jailed for civil contempt in 1982–83, one of seven people named in I...
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John Della Monica
Released
John Della Monica was an ILD leader at Utica, sentenced to one and a half to three years at Auburn State Priso...
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Hyman Denowitz
Released
Hyman Denowitz was a needle-trades union organizer framed on an assault charge arising from union activity, se...
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Ralph Di Gia
Released
Ralph Di Gia was a longtime War Resisters League figure (treasurer of the Civil Defense Protest Committee) arr...
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Ralph DiGia
Released
Ralph DiGia was a New York City accountant and lifelong pacifist who refused to register for the draft in Worl...
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Morris Dolinsky
Released
Morris Dolinsky was one of the named participants in the 1935 'March of the Cripples' — a sit-in by disabled u...
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Sean Donohue
Released
Sean Donohue is a peace activist who has been arrested for civil disobedience at U.S. military and nuclear wea...
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Tom Dostou
Released
Tom Dostou was a field marshal of the Patriot Party, the organization of anti-racist working-class white peopl...
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Michael R. Dougherty
Released
A former Roman Catholic priest and former U.S. Army paratrooper, Dougherty was one of the nine who raided the...
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