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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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Ellen Grady
Released
Ellen Grady, daughter of Camden 28 defendant John Grady and sister of Clare and Teresa Grady, was an aide to a...
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John Grady
Released
John Grady was an auto mechanic from Ithaca, NY and patriarch of the Grady family of Catholic radicals. He had...
A
Abner Green
Released
Abner Green was the executive secretary of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and a trustee...
J
Jennifer Greenberg
Released
Jennifer Greenberg was a 17-year-old animal-rights activist arrested with Benjamin Persky and Joshua Schwartz...
J
Julius R. Greenberg
Released
Julius R. Greenberg was a Quaker conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Steven Guerra
Released
Steven Guerra was a Puerto Rican independence activist identified by prosecutors as a leader of FALN support w...
P
Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán
Released
Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán was Minister of Information of the New York Young Lords and was arrested in the group's...
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Nancy Gwin
Released
Nancy Gwin — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installation...
D
Daniel Hamm
Released
One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...
J
Javon Hardy
Released
Javon Hardy, 24, set fire to a 32-by-8-foot mobile office at the Rochester Public Safety Building during the M...
P
Peter Harisiades
Released
Peter Harisiades was a Greek-born, long-resident American Communist and labor journalist ordered deported unde...
S
Sol Harper
Released
Sol Harper was arrested and imprisoned in New York City in 1930 for raising the anti-lynching issue against th...
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Richard Harris
Released
Richard Harris was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy c...
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Isidore Hartman
Released
Isidore Hartman was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
A
Arthur Harvey
Released
Arthur Harvey was one of a group of pacifists arrested in New York City in April 1959 for refusing to take she...
E
Elliott White Haskins
Released
Elliott White Haskins was a 25-year-old man alleged to be a member of the Black Liberation Army. He was wanted...
S
Sol Hertz
Released
Sol Hertz was a New York Farmers Union leader placed under threat of deportation under the McCarran Act for hi...
C
Carol Hill
Released
Carol Hill was listed as a Black-liberation political prisoner (held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center,...
M
Michel Holowach
Released
Michel Holowach was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Louis Holzer
Released
Louis Holzer was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union member detained in the prosecution arisin...
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Mohammed Mosharref Hossain
Released
Mohammed Mosharref Hossain was the Bangladeshi-American owner of an Albany, New York pizzeria and a founder of...
G
George Houser
Released
George Mills Houser was a Methodist minister and pacifist who in 1940, while a student at Union Theological Se...
S
Saul H. Housman
Released
Saul H. Housman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Gerard Hoy
Released
Irish republican prisoner held at FCI Ray Brook in upstate New York on federal charges relating to support for...

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