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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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Rubin Malin
Released
Rubin Malin was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Noureddine Malki
Released
Noureddine Malki, whose real name is not known, became a U.S. citizen using a false identity and later became...
J
John Maller
Released
John Maller was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Mae Mallory
Released
Mae Mallory was a Harlem activist and one of the 'Harlem Nine' mothers whose 1958 lawsuit against New York Cit...
B
Benjamin Mandel
Released
Benjamin Mandel (who used the party name "Bert Miller") was the business manager of the Daily Worker, jailed i...
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Paul Manko
Released
Paul Manko, a member of the Communist Party from New York City, served a sentence in Sing Sing State Penitenti...
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Lazarus Marcowitz
Released
Lazarus Baer Marcowitz of Brooklyn, New York was drafted in 1918 and imprisoned as a conscientious objector at...
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Hector Marroquin
Released
Héctor Marroquín was a Mexican-born activist whose decade-long fight against deportation became a major politi...
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William B. Martin
Released
William B. Martin was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Victor Martinez
Released
Victor Martinez was a member of the Inmates Liberation Front, the organization that grew out of the 1970 rebel...
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George Mashkow
Released
George Mashkow, age 17, pleaded guilty in 2001 to one count of arson conspiracy related to ELF-claimed fires a...
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Peter Masukas
Released
Peter Masukas was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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David Mathews
Released
David Mathews was the loyalist Mayor of New York City. In June 1776 he was arrested and accused of involvement...
H
Henry Matthews
Henry Matthews, who used the alias Massio, was a 17-year-old convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death...
J
Joseph Mazzuchelli
Released
Joseph Mazzuchelli, age 42, was a co-conspirator with John Ford and Edward Zabo in a 1996 plot to use radium-l...
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Louis McCabe
Released
Louis McCabe was one of the five defense lawyers for the eleven Communist leaders tried at the 1949 Foley Squa...
J
Jakhi McCray
Jakhi McCray (also recorded as Jakhi Lodgson-McCray), a young activist from Brooklyn, was charged in the U.S....
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Charles T. McCumber
Released
Charles T. McCumber was a New York Anti-Renter convicted of second-degree robbery and sentenced to seven years...
D
Dyshika McFadden
Released
Dyshika McFadden, Miguel Ramos, and Tindal are accused of using an aerosol can and open flame to set fire to a...
J
Jared McIntyre
Released
Jared McIntyre, age 17, pleaded guilty in 2001 to one count of arson conspiracy related to ELF-claimed fires s...
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Malcom B. McJannet
Released
Malcom B. McJannet was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World W...
B
Bernard J. McKeon
Released
Bernard McKeon, known as Barney, was a Leitrim-born building contractor and Irish-American activist. He was ja...
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Hugh McKiernan
Released
Hugh McKiernan was one of four members of the Irish Workers' Club in the Bronx, New York arrested defending ag...
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A. H. McMillan
Released
A. H. McMillan, from Brooklyn, New York, began serving a twenty-year prison sentence on June 21, 1918. He was...

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