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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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John Lathan
Released
John Lathan was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersh...
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Robert Lealess
Released
Robert Lealess was a member of the delegation of the unemployed that went to the New York City Board of Estima...
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Harry Lee
Released
Harry Lee was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
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David Leff
Released
David Leff was a UNESCO employee whose passport was seized over a U.S. loyalty inquiry. A bench warrant was is...
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Anna Leisman
Released
Anna Leisman, a member of the Communist Party, served a sentence in the New York Women's Prison at Auburn. She...
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Denis Leyne
Released
Denis Leyne was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IRA. He was hel...
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Petros Lezos
Released
Petros Lezos was ordered deported to Greece in 1953 despite an earlier grant of asylum. His case was part of t...
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Ben Lifshitz
Released
Ben Lifshitz was given thirty days on New York's Welfare Island in 1929 after being seized in a police raid on...
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Rose Nelson Lightcap
Released
Rose Nelson Lightcap, an official of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order, was among the first people ordered d...
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Roy Lisker
Released
Writer, mathematician, and self-described Renaissance man who was one of five men who burned their draft cards...
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Eric M. Liskin
Released
Eric M. Liskin was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war res...
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Frank D. Lo Presti
Released
Frank D. Lo Presti was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Marilyn A. Lo Presti
Released
Marilyn A. Lo Presti was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university w...
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Wallace F. Logan
Released
Wallace F. Logan was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Alfredo Lopez
Puerto Rican Socialist Party Central Committee member and July 4th Coalition coordinator threatened with a gra...
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William Lovell
Released
One of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on October 16, 1940, the...
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William Lynch
Released
William Lynch was a New York longshoreman jailed for contempt in 1954 for his part in an International Longsho...
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Ronald Lyons
One of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping/unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 1971 rebellion were dismi...
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Leon Mabille
Released
Leon Mabille was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief...
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Larry Mack
Released
Larry Mack was the section leader of the Queens chapter of the Black Panther Party at the time of the April 2,...
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Calvin Madison
Released
Calvin Madison — sometimes recorded as Caleb Madison — was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned...
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Thomas Oliver Maguire
Released
Thomas Oliver Maguire was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IRA....
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Carl J. Maier
Released
Carl J. Maier was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Norman Mailer
Released
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist arrested at the October 21, 1967 March on the Pentagon for crossing an MP line...
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