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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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Sam Trehonuk
Released
Sam Trehonuk was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Henry Trigos-Celon
Released
Henry Trigos-Celon, age 43, ELN member; detained in September 2020. Pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to th...
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Jerry F. Tung
Released
Jerry F. Tung was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war rese...
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Dave Turner
Released
Dave Turner was a needle-trades worker arrested on a New York picket line during the 1932 garment strike and s...
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Sidney Turoff
Released
Sidney Turoff was convicted of contempt of Congress by a federal jury in Buffalo in December 1959 for refusing...
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William Ullman
Released
William Ullman, named by Elizabeth Bentley, was the first test of the Brownell immunity law during the McCarth...
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Abraham Unger
Released
Abraham Unger was a New York attorney who refused to answer Senator McCarthy's questions during the McCarthy e...
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Joseph Valsky
Released
Joseph Valsky was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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John Van Steenburgh
Released
Delaware County, New York 'Calico Indian' convicted of the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersheriff Osman N. Ste...
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Anthony J. Vanzawaren
Released
Anthony J. Vanzawaren was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university...
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Julio Veras
Released
Puerto Rican political prisoner held at FCI Lewisburg and FCI Petersburg in the 1980s on charges connected to...
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Ioannis Viglakis
Released
Ioannis Viglakis (Pablo), a Greek arms dealer age 52, was arrested in Panama for attempting to sell rocket-pro...
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Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy
Released
Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, along with Nachimuthu Socrates, Vijayshanthar Patpanathan, Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian,...
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Cristian Vintila
Released
Cristian Vintila, a former high-ranking government minister in Romania, conspired with Italian ex-MP Massimo R...
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Jacob Vogel
Released
Jacob Vogel was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Rocco Volpe
Released
Rocco Volpe was one of the five Utica unemployed defendants in the Utica, New York unemployed-council case. Fi...
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William Vroman
Released
William Vroman belonged to the anti-rent community on Blenheim Hill, New York, where tenant farmers resisted t...
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Roger Wareham
Released
Civil rights attorney and December 12th Movement co-founder, charged as a New York 8+ defendant in the October...
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Wanda Wareham
Released
Wanda Wareham was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister and the spouse of defendant Roger Wareham. She was confine...
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John J. Warner
Released
John J. Warner was a tenant farmer in the anti-rent community on Blenheim Hill, New York. During the 1845 crac...
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Ira M. Wechsler
Released
Ira M. Wechsler was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Howard L. Weiner
Released
Howard L. Weiner was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
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Suzanne R. Weiner
Released
Suzanne R. Weiner was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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William Weiner
Released
William Weiner was the Communist Party USA's national treasurer, convicted in February 1940 on a passport-frau...

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