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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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Helen Freedwoman
Helen Freedwoman was individually named among four women arrested July 17, 1985 at Seneca Army Depot and taken...
L
Larry K. Freeman
Released
Larry K. Freeman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
P
Paul Freeman
Released
Paul Freeman was a Black man convicted of murder in New York City. His defenders said the conviction rested on...
A
Al Friedman
Al Friedman was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon acqu...
J
Jeanne F. Friedman
Released
Jeanne F. Friedman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Nathan Friedman
Nathan Friedman was arrested at an anti-Nazi demonstration in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of April 1...
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Sam Friedman
Sam Friedman was a picket during the Retail Dairy, Fruit and Grocery Clerks Union Local 338 strike against the...
F
Frimmerman
Frimmerman was a tenant brought to court on an unlawful-entry charge in May 1931. Tenant Frimmerman of 116 Ea...
J
James Frost
Released
James Frost was one of three workers jailed on disorderly-conduct charges during a protest outside Governor Le...
D
David Frothingham
Released
David Frothingham was a journeyman printer at the New York Argus, a Democratic-Republican newspaper owned and...
C
Christina Froudakis
Christina Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arre...
G
George Froudakis
George Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arreste...
K
Kiriaki Froudakis
Kiriaki Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arrest...
V
Vasilios Froudakis
Vasilios Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arres...
M
Max Rudolf Fuchs
Max Rudolf Fuchs was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
F
Fred Furek
Fred Furek was a cafeteria-strike prisoner at Welfare Island, identified in his letter as inmate 97645, cell 6...
T
Teddy Furude
Teddy Furude is individually identified as a fellow prisoner in the cafeteria-strike correspondence printed Ma...
T
Thomas Gagnon
Thomas Gagnon was one of three striking painters arrested following a clash at Cooper Union in New York during...
F
Faysal Galab
Released
Faysal Galab was identified among the Lackawanna Six in FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statemen...
P
Peter Galvin
Peter Galvin is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
J
Jerry Gambill
Jerry Gambill, identified as Rarihokwats, was the unpaid editor of Akwesasne Notes and an American-born Canadi...
G
Glenn Gan
Released
Glenn Gan was one of the UN 2 antiwar protesters prosecuted after an April 30, 1980 demonstration inside the U...
F
Fred Gardner
Fred Gardner was president of Hospital Employes Union Local 171 of the Building Service Employes International...
J
James Garfield
James Garfield is identified in Page 1 with Louis Campbell and Arthur Williams as four Black Harlem League of...

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