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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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Fidelis Moscinski
Released
Father Fidelis Moscinski is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal (CFR) from the Bronx, New York, a Catholic pries...
J
Jane Moses
Released
Jane Moses was a young pacifist arrested with her husband Richard in Times Square during New York City's July...
R
Richard Moses
Released
Richard Moses was a young pacifist arrested in Times Square carrying anti-war signs during New York City's Jul...
P
Petros Moutsos
Released
Petros Moutsos was a young Greek seaman and member of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions (outlawed in Gre...
D
Deane Mowrer
Released
Deane Mowrer was an associate editor of the Catholic Worker, one of ten pacifists jailed in July 1957 for refu...
E
Eugene Moy
Released
Eugene Moy was the editor of the New York China Daily News, a Chinese-American paper sympathetic to the new Pe...
J
John Mullally
Released
John Mullally was one of four members of the Irish Workers' Club in the Bronx, New York arrested defending aga...
A
Alfred J. Mungo
Released
Alfred J. Mungo was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
E
Edward Murphy
Released
Jesuit priest and NYC native, age 34 at indictment; entered the Society of Jesus in 1955, ordained 1968, taugh...
H
Harry Murray
Released
Harry Murray was a peace activist whose oral history describes custody following antiwar protests in New York,...
Y
Yusuf A. Mussadiq
Released
Yusuf A. Mussadiq was one of the four young Sunni Muslim men known as the Williamsburg Four. On January 18, 19...
T
Twymon Ford Myers
Twymon Ford Myers was a Black Liberation Army member from New York sought in connection with police shootings,...
R
Ramanan Mylvaganam
Released
Ramanan Mylvaganam helped to procure weapons and supplies for the Tamil Tigers. Case characteristics: FBI sti...
P
Piratheepan Nadarajah
Released
Piratheepan Nadarajah conspired with an undercover FBI agent to purchase $1 million worth of weapons for the T...
O
Otto Nathan
Released
Dr. Otto Nathan was an economist and the executor of Albert Einstein's estate, cited for contempt of Congress...
R
Raisa Nemikin
Released
Staff member of the Episcopal Church's National Commission on Hispanic Affairs jailed in 1977 alongside Maria...
S
Sam Nessin
Released
Sam Nessin was a member of the delegation of the unemployed that went to the New York City Board of Estimate o...
T
Trofin Nicolaieff
Released
Trofin Nicolaieff was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
D
Daniel Northrup
Released
Daniel Northrup was a Delaware County, New York tenant farmer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of U...
R
Raymond A. Northrup
Released
Raymond A. Northrup was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
J
John Noto
Released
John Noto was a Buffalo Communist Party leader arrested on August 31, 1955 under a 1954 sealed indictment char...
H
Harvey O'Connor
Released
Harvey O'Connor (March 29, 1897 – August 29, 1987) was a labor journalist and author, born in Minneapolis and...
M
Michael O'Rourke
Released
Michael O'Rourke was an Irish republican who sought to remain in the United States after escaping from impriso...
B
Baba Odinga
Released
Baba Odinga was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy case...

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