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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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Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas
Released
Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, nephew of Cilia Flores, was arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November...
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Tom Forcade
Released
Tom Forcade, also known as Thomas King Forcade and Kenneth Gary Goodson, oversaw the Underground Press Syndica...
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Jean Ford
Released
Jean Ford was a Harlem Hospital physician and political activist involved in campaigns against apartheid and p...
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Jimmy Ford
Released
Jimmy Ford was sentenced to a year in a New York reform school for leading Black children to a jim-crow swimmi...
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Clark Foreman
Released
Clark Foreman was the director of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, cited for contempt of Congress in J...
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Larry K. Freeman
Released
Larry K. Freeman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
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Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman was a Black man convicted of murder in New York City. His defenders said the conviction rested on...
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Jeanne F. Friedman
Released
Jeanne F. Friedman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Abraham Gelerter
Released
Abraham Gelerter was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Virgil Flaviu Georgescu
Released
Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, a U.S. citizen and international businessman, conspired with Italian ex-MP Massimo Ro...
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Alice Gerard
Released
Alice Gerard — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installati...
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David A. Gersh
Released
David A. Gersh was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war res...
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Benjamin Gidow
Released
Benjamin Gidow, a leader of the American Socialist Party and a founder of the Communist Party from New York Ci...
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Joseph T. Gilchrist
Released
Known as Joe Gilchrist, a former Cornell student (there during Fr. Daniel Berrigan's chaplaincy) from Ithaca,...
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Mario Giletti
Released
Mario Giletti was an Italian-American anti-fascist who served nine months at the Comstock (Great Meadow) priso...
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Robert Gillmore
Released
Robert Gillmore was the New York secretary of the American Friends Service Committee and chairman of the local...
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William Gilroy
Released
William Gilroy was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to Ir...
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Chin You Gon
Released
Chin You Gon was a Chinese-American convicted in New York in 1954 under the Trading With the Enemy Act for rem...
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Sam Gonshak
Released
Sam Gonshak was a New York Unemployed Council organizer sentenced to two years in the Welfare Island workhouse...
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Robert Good
Released
Age 22 at indictment; a former seminarian who studied five years with the Missionary Society of the Divine Wor...
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Frank Goodall
Released
Frank Goodall was a striking seaman held for trial in the 1936 East Coast seamen's strike, when 221 pickets we...
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Dennis Goodwin
Black man convicted of second-degree murder by an all-white jury in Elmira, N.Y. (arrested March 7, 1977) in a...
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June Croll Gordon
Released
June Croll Gordon was the executive secretary of the Emma Lazarus Federation of Women's Clubs and a former sec...
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Ida Gottesman
Released
Ida Gottesman of New York City was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation in a November 1953 McCarran...
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