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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 McNeil
Released
John McNeil was a Black worker of Harlem, New York framed in a 1937 case the ILD took up.
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Murray Melvin
Released
Murray Melvin was a twenty-four-year-old vice-president of the Allied Printing Helpers' Union in New York, fra...
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Fred Merchawk
Released
Fred Merchawk was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Ignatz Mezei
Released
Ignatz Mezei was a Buffalo carpenter and officer of the International Workers Order’s Hungarian lodge. After r...
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Sam Milgrom
Released
Sam Milgrom was the national executive secretary of the International Workers Order. During the campaign to de...
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David J. Miller
Released
David J. Miller was a 24-year-old Catholic Worker pacifist and the first person prosecuted under the August 19...
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Jacob Miller
Released
Jacob Miller was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Leonard Miller
Released
Leonard Miller was a needle-trades worker arrested on a New York picket line during the 1932 garment strike an...
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May Miller
Released
May Miller was a young Communist arrested in New York City in 1930 for distributing anti-militarist leaflets t...
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Chin Hong Ming
Released
Chin Hong Ming was a Chinese-American convicted in federal court in New York in 1954 under the Trading With th...
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Aaron Minter
Released
Aaron Minter, an Occupy Wall Street organizer who frequently went by the alias Aaron Black, was sentenced to 1...
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Ignatz Mizher
Released
Ignatz Mizher, a member of the Communist Party from New York City, served a sentence in Sing Sing and was late...
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Patrick Moley
Released
Patrick Moley was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IRA. He was h...
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Elsie Monakian
Released
Elsie Monakian was dragged from her bed and jailed at 1 a.m. by police, and was a striker with Local 1250 of t...
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Pedro Mario Monges
Pedro Mario Monges, also known as Chango Caribe and Chango Monges, was associated with the Black Liberation Ar...
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Isma-El Rahim
Released
New Afrikan political prisoner held at Auburn Correctional Facility in New York. Listed as a North American po...
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Anne Montgomery
Released
Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, of the Society of the Sacred Heart was one of the most prolific Plowshares activ...
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Donnell Moore
Former Black Panther Party member and UC Berkeley student who spent about four months in New York's Rikers Isl...
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Paschal Morahan
Released
Paschal Morahan was one of the Fort Worth Five, five Irish-American men jailed in Texas in 1972 for refusing t...
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John Morgan
Released
John Morgan, an organizer for the Marine Workers' League, served a six-month term on New York's Welfare Island...
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Martin Moriarty
Released
Martin Moriarty was one of four members of the Irish Workers' Club in the Bronx, New York arrested defending a...
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Danny Morrison
Released
Danny Morrison was a Sinn Fein publicist and later a writer. He was jailed in Buffalo with Owen Carron after a...
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Anne Morrissett
Released
Anne Morrissett was among the 26 protesters arrested at City Hall Park in New York on May 3, 1960 for refusing...
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Felix Morrow
Released
Trotskyist editor and theoretician. Edited the SWP's newspaper The Militant and its theoretical journal Fourth...
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