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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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Peter Garmolinsky
Peter Garmolinsky was an unemployed New York worker seeking additional relief beyond thirty cents a day. The D...
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John Garrett
John Garrett was named among the Harlem Youth Federation five arrested May16,1968 and charged with conspiracie...
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Steve Garrett
Steve Garrett (printed alias El-Kareem) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica u...
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P. Gasigan
P. Gasigan was among five speakers arrested June 7, 1930 at 149th Street and Third Avenue, charged with disord...
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Murray Gassman
Murray Gassman was arrested during the All White Laundry strike at 46 West 98th Street, New York. Page 3 of th...
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Lena Gautman
Lena Gautman was a New York fur worker imprisoned in the 1927 fur-strike prosecution. The May 16, 1928 Daily W...
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Antoine Gazda
Released
Antoine Gazda was an Austrian gun inventor, reported as forty-seven in the March 19, 1942 Pampa News. Citing t...
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Anthony Gazzola
Released
Anthony Gazzola was one of six pickets arrested September 12, 1935 outside Bickford’s restaurant, 215 West For...
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William Gegner
Released
William Gegner was a Food Workers Industrial Union striker arrested while picketing Sherman Cafeterias and the...
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H. Gelber
H. Gelber was one of five pickets arrested outside London Dress Company, 245 Seventh Avenue, New York, on the...
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Abraham Gelerter
Released
Abraham Gelerter was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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W. D. Gelsleicter
W. D. Gelsleicter is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers...
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Emanuel George
Emanuel George, an Ohio striking miner, was named among five workers serving five-day sentences for the July3,...
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David A. Gersh
Released
David A. Gersh was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war res...
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Rose Gertz
Released
Rose Gertz was one of five workers arrested during a demonstration outside the North Harlem Relief Station at...
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Benjamin Gidow
Released
Benjamin Gidow was a leader of the American Socialist Party and a founder of the Communist Party from New York...
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Herbert Gierse
Herbert Gierse was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Ida Gierse
Ida Gierse was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
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Joe Gilchrist
Released
Joe Gilchrist was arrested on September 6, 1970. Known as Joe Gilchrist, a former Cornell student (there duri...
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Mario Giletti
Released
Mario Giletti was an Italian-American anti-fascist who served nine months at the Comstock (Great Meadow) priso...
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Robert Gill
Robert Gill is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants....
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Robert Gillmore
Released
Robert Gillmore was the New York secretary of the American Friends Service Committee and chairman of the local...
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William Gilroy
Released
William Gilroy was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to Ir...
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Gerna Gitter
Gerna Gitter was a striking dressmaker held on an assault accusation during the New York dress strike in March...

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