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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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Edward Drolette
Released
Edward Drolette was one of the anti-fascists arrested in the 26 July 1935 demonstration aboard the German line...
A
Adam Durand
Released
Adam Durand is an animal-rights advocate and videographer who documented conditions at Wegmans Egg Farm and pa...
M
Moses Earle
Released
Elderly tenant farmer at whose Andes, Delaware County, New York farm Undersheriff Osman N. Steele was killed o...
M
Marc Edelman
Released
A cabinetmaker who was one of five men who publicly burned their draft cards at Union Square, New York City, o...
P
Pearl Edison
Released
Pearl Edison was a striker with Local 1250 of the Department Store Employees Union in the December 1935 strike...
H
Harry Eiseman
Released
Harry Eiseman was a teenage Young Pioneer leader sentenced to a reformatory for his part in the March 6, 1930...
B
Bertha Elkins
Released
Bertha Elkins was a picket in the 1909 New York shirtwaist strike. Contemporary newspapers describe her releas...
D
Desmond Ellis
Released
Desmond Ellis, also known as Dessie Ellis, was detained by US authorities after attempting to enter from Canad...
C
Concepcion Estrada Correa
Concepcion Estrada Correa was a 17-year-old Puerto Rican convicted of felony murder by a 'blue-ribbon' jury in...
J
Jacob Falek
Released
Jacob Falek was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
M
Morris Falk
Released
Morris Falk was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
M
Mujahid Farid
Released
Mujahid Farid was a New Afrikan activist who spent 33 years in New York State prisons following a 1978 convict...
D
Dianne Feeley
Released
Dianne Feeley participated in Catholic Worker antiwar actions before joining the Young Socialist Alliance in 1...
I
Irving Feiner
Released
Irving Feiner was a Syracuse University student arrested for a sidewalk speech publicizing a Young Progressive...
R
Ronald Felder
Released
One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...
C
Carlos Feliciano
Released
Carlos Feliciano was a veteran Puerto Rican independence militant arrested in New York in May 1970 and accused...
C
Cecilia Ferguson
Released
Cecilia "Chui" Ferguson is a former Black Panther who was convicted of accessory charges and sentenced to twel...
A
Antonio Fernandez
Released
Antonio Fernandez, known as King Tone, led the New York Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation and promoted comm...
E
Emmanuel Paul Fernandez
Released
Emmanuel Paul Fernandez was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World...
G
Gustav P. Fernquist
Released
Gustav P. Fernquist was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
J
Julius Firestone
Released
Julius Firestone was inducted into the army in 1917. Because of his strong public stance against the war, Fire...
W
William Fisher
Released
William Fisher was a Black worker the ILD held was the victim of a legal lynching behind a murder charge — one...
E
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Released
Edward J. Fitzgerald was a former New Deal government official, named by the informer Elizabeth Bentley, who w...
E
Ernestina Fleischman
Released
Ernestina Fleischman was an official of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee jailed for contempt of Congre...

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