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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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Roque Orobio Lobon
Released
Roque Orobio Lobon, age 46, FARC 57th Front member; pleaded guilty to hostage taking. 60 months federal prison...
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William Ortiz
One of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping and unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 1971 rebellion were d...
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William O’Neill
Released
William O’Neill was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to I...
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Alejandro Palacios Rengifo
Released
Alejandro Palacios Rengifo, age 32, FARC 57th Front member; convicted at trial. 180 months federal prison + su...
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Michael Palumbo
Released
Michael Palumbo was an anti-fascist arrested with Athos Terzani and framed in connection with the shooting at...
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Frank Panopoulos
Released
Frank Panopoulos has worked on peace and social justice issues since 1979. During the 1980s he lived in the Co...
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Milton Parish
Released
Milton Parish, also reported as Milton Parrish, was a writer jailed for refusing grand-jury testimony in the N...
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Polychronis Paschalidis
Released
Polychronis 'Paul' Paschalidis was the New York secretary of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions, outlawed...
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Joseph Pass
Released
Joseph Pass, a writer from New York, New York, was arrested in New York City in October 1917 for " pro-peace "...
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Vijayshanthar Patpanathan
Released
Patpanathan, along with Nachimuthu Socrates, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian, Namasivaya Vi...
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Laguerre Payen
Released
Laguerre Payen was a Haitian-born Newburgh, New York resident with documented schizophrenia and severe cogniti...
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Colette Pean
Released
Member of the 'New York 8' (sometimes the 'New York 8+'), a group of New Afrikan activists arrested October 18...
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Seymour Peck
Released
Seymour Peck, an editor on the New York Times Sunday magazine, was one of six indicted for contempt of Congres...
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William Perl
Released
William Perl was a radical physicist indicted for perjury in connection with the Rosenberg atomic-espionage ca...
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Charles Pernasilice
Released
Catawba prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility at the time of the September 1971 uprising. Indicted with Joh...
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James A.G. Perry
Released
James A.G. Perry was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Benjamin Persky
Released
Benjamin Persky was an animal-rights activist imprisoned in New York for property destruction during protests...
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Paul Pfeffer
Paul Pfeffer was convicted of murder in New York City and sentenced to 20 years. His defenders said the convic...
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John Phoenix
Released
John Phoenix was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Unders...
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Yamit Picon-Rodriguez
Released
Yamit Picon-Rodriguez, age 36, ELN member; detained in September 2020 in connection with a 20-year ELN cocaine...
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Clinton H. Pierce
Released
Clinton H. Pierce, a Socialist Party member from Albany, New York, began serving a prison sentence on November...
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Morris J. Plousker
Released
Morris J. Plousker was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Viola Plummer
Released
Black liberation organizer and co-founder of the December 12th Movement, charged as a New York 8+ defendant in...
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Otto Popovich
Released
Otto Popovich was an anti-fascist sentenced to six months for distributing Free-Thaelmann leaflets at New York...

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