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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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Otto Bremer
Otto Bremer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, on...
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Oscar E. Brex
Released
Oscar E. Brex was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Julius Broader
Julius Broader, a Brownsville Unemployed Council organizer, was arrested June 11, 1934 at the relief station a...
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J. Brofman
J. was a demonstrator jailed after protesting Harry Eisman’s recommitment in 1930. The March 25, 1930 report...
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Anna Brooks
Anna Brooks helped lead the strike at Spear Underwear Company, 134 Spring Street, with Sol Hertz. The November...
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Raissa Browder
Released
Raissa Browder was the Russian-born wife of former Communist leader Earl Browder, arrested with him in Yonkers...
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George Brown
George Brown is identified in Page 1 with Louis Campbell and Arthur Williams as four Black Harlem League of St...
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Harold Brown
Harold Brown was arrested on November 10, 1931. Page 2 reports twelve-year-old Harold Brown beaten and arrest...
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James Brown
James Brown (printed alias Alsayah) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica upris...
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John Brown
John was a Central Grievance Committee delegate arrested after refusing to leave a relief administrator’s offi...
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Sam Brown
Sam Brown was a Black Harlem worker arrested and held in the Tombs under $10,000 bail on robbery, grand larcen...
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Sam Brown
Sam Brown was arrested with the other people named in the page 1 Harlem report when police attacked an Unemplo...
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Samuel Brown
Samuel Brown was a Black New York worker whom the Daily Worker of October 21, 1932, page 2, says was jailed fo...
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J. Brucher
J. Brucher was among six Zelgreen cafeteria pickets who had served disorderly-conduct terms and remained jaile...
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Eugenio Bruno
Eugenio Bruno was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing of a...
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Oscar Buchanan
Oscar was a worker arrested at the August 25 Hunger March demonstration at the Albany Capitol. The August 28...
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Nate Buckley
Nate Buckley was arrested during a 2011 Buffalo antiwar protest.
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Aisha Buckner
Released
Aisha Deborah Buckner, whose name appears in the federal court record as Aiysha Buckner, was one of the New Yo...
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Adolph Chas. F. Buehler
Adolph Chas. F. Buehler was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, N...
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Janie Bugg
Janie Bugg was a WPA teacher whom an eyewitness letter identifies as beaten and arrested by a police officer w...
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J. Buitenkant
Released
J. Buitenkant was a lawyer for the needle-trades industrial union. On Saturday morning, July 30, 1932, Judge T...
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Ernest J. Bumann
Ernest J. Bumann was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York...
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Daniel Burgevin
Released
Daniel Burgevin, a Trumansburg, New York peace activist, participated in the October 25, 2012 Hancock Field dr...
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Isaac L. Burhans
Released
Isaac L. Burhans was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Un...

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