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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 Weinstein
Released
Sam Weinstein was a decorated World War veteran and leader of the 1932 Muskin Manufacturing Company furniture...
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Max Weiss
Released
Max Weiss was a Communist Party leader, formerly of Chicago, arrested in New York City on September 19, 1955 u...
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Norval D. Welch
Released
Norval D. Welch, a National Guardian staff member, was among the 42 people arrested at City Hall Plaza in the...
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Thomas Welnicki
Released
Thomas Welnicki, age 71, of Rockaway Beach NY, made multiple statements to U.S. Capitol Police and Secret Serv...
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Richard Wichlei
Released
One of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on October 16, 1940, the...
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Anthony Williams
Anthony "Tony" Williams was an Attica prisoner prosecuted after the September 1971 uprising. Attica News docum...
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David Williams
Released
David Williams was one of the four men recruited by FBI informant Shahed Hussein into the May 20, 2009 fiction...
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Onta Williams
Released
Onta Williams was one of the four men recruited by FBI informant Shahed Hussein into the May 20, 2009 fictiona...
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Suzanne Williams
Released
Known as Suzi Williams, of Rochester, NY, one of the eight arrested Sept 6, 1970. She conducted her own defens...
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J. L. Williamson
Released
J. L. Williamson was a sixty-seven-year-old Spanish–American War veteran and American Legion charter member fr...
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Robert Wolf
Released
Robert Wolf, a writer, was arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Street demonstration against U.S. military interv...
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Albert Wong
Released
Albert Wong was a former managing editor of the New York China Daily News, indicted with editor Eugene Moy in...
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Ignacy Wysycki
Released
Ignacy Wysycki was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. C...
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Nadarasa Yogarasa
Released
Sahilal Sarachandran, Nadarasa Yogarasa, Sathajhan Sarachandran, and Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam were involved...
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Nadarasa Yograrasa
Released
Nadarasa Yograrasa, 55, LTTE material-support defendant in the Long Island weapons-purchase conspiracy. 168 mo...
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Paul Yuditch
Released
Paul Yuditch was the labor editor of the Communist Yiddish daily Morning Freiheit in New York, targeted for de...
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Edward Zabo
Released
Edward Zabo, age 49, was a co-conspirator with John Ford and Joseph Mazzuchelli in the 1996 Long Island UFO Ne...
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Michael Zweig
Released
Michael Zweig, a Stony Brook economics professor, was jailed for refusing to answer grand-jury questions about...
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Nicole d’Entremont
Released
Nicole d’Entremont was a Catholic Worker editor jailed after an antiwar sit-down at New York’s Armed Forces Da...
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