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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.

2,077Documented
25In custody
1,084Released
7Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 715 1940s 176 1970s 173 1910s 169 1920s 165 1950s 161

Documented cases

2,077 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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John Berg
Released
John Berg was named as John Berg in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report say...
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Sadie Berge
Sadie Berge was one of four young Communists sentenced by Magistrate Mark Rudich in Coney Island Court on May...
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Rubin Berger
Rubin Berger was prosecuted for assault arising from his activities in the Needleman and Bremmer garment strik...
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Leopold Bergman
Released
Leopold Bergman was a New York anarchist — very likely the Yiddish-language anarchist writer and editor of tha...
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Sol Berkowitz
Sol Berkowitz was a Fur Floor Boys Union member arrested after a reported attack while checking overtime in Ne...
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Samuel Berland
Samuel Berland was manager of Laundry Workers International Union Local 280 during the Hotel Albert Laundry st...
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Abe Berlin
Abe Berlin signed the joint letter headed Solidarity Behind the Bars in the October 1934 Labor Defender. He an...
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Jacqueline Bernard
Released
Jacqueline Bernard, also reported as Jackie Bernard, was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister. She spent months i...
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Arnold Bernardini
Released
Arnold Bernardini was a union picketer arrested in Brooklyn in November 1954 on a disorderly-conduct charge. T...
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David Bernet
David was arrested May 19, 1933 following the Home Relief Bureau protest at West 47th Street near Sixth Avenue...
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Sarah Bernstein
Sarah Bernstein is individually named in Page 5 among eleven pickets arrested the previous morning, December 2...
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Thomas Berry
Released
Thomas Berry was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy cas...
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Joseph Bevilacqua
Released
Joseph Bevilacqua was one of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on...
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Friedrich Beyerbach
Friedrich Beyerbach was a refugee from Nazi Germany whose freedom was sought through habeas corpus proceedings...
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Paul Biggins
Released
Paul Biggins was one of five workers arrested during a demonstration outside the North Harlem Relief Station a...
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Richie Bilello
Richie Bilello is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendan...
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Ernest Bixby
Ernest Bixby is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Phil Black
Phil Black was among three unemployed relief delegates arrested after visiting Emergency Relief Bureau No. 60...
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John Black
John Black was individually named among Purity bakery pickets arrested on suspicion in New York during the nig...
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George Blackwell
George Blackwell is named in Page 2, a painter, among four workers arrested during the July 26 Bremen anti-Naz...
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Arthur Blair
Arthur Blair is identified in Page 2 as severely beaten and arrested in the July 26, 1935 Bremen anti-Nazi dem...
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A. Blanca
A. Blanca was among six Zelgreen cafeteria pickets who had served disorderly-conduct terms and remained jailed...
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Bill Blank
Bill Blank was individually named among nine people arrested for street speaking at Eastern Parkway and Utica...
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Mannie Blier
Mannie Blier wrote from actual confinement at Welfare Island, New York, in a letter printed under the headline...

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
215 cases
Fort LafayetteNew York, New York
201 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
21 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
20 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
15 cases
Ellis IslandNew York, New York
15 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
10 cases