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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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Joseph Harris
Joseph Harris was arrested at Lafayette Square in Buffalo on October 25, 1930 while trying to announce the mee...
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Richard Harris
Released
Richard Harris was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy c...
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George Hart
George Hart, International Labor Defense district secretary involved in the Niagara Falls defense of Alphonse...
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J. Hart
J. Hart, identified only by the printed initial and surname, was one of six protesters against Harry Eisman’s...
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Isidore Hartman
Released
Isidore Hartman was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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S. Harvey
S. Harvey, identified as the Buffalo district secretary of the TUUL, was one of four workers arrested distribu...
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Elliott White Haskins
Released
Elliott White Haskins was a twenty-five-year-old man whom authorities alleged was associated with the Black Li...
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Isaiah Hawkins
Isaiah Hawkins was an Attica prisoner and member of its prisoner liaison committee, working to improve conditi...
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Max Hein
Max Hein was among Brooklyn shoe workers reported convicted of assault on May 6, 1930. Sentencing was announce...
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Otto Heinemann
Otto Heinemann was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Irving Heinman
Irving Heinman was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buf...
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Walter Herman Heinrich
Walter Herman Heinrich was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
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William Richard Heller
William Richard Heller was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
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George Fritz Hellinger
George Fritz Hellinger was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
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Milton Helpern
Milton Helpern was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s...
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Axel Hendrickson
Released
Axel Hendrickson was named as Axel Hendrickson in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster....
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Leon Herald
Leon Herald is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arrest...
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William Herbert
William Herbert was arrested distributing leaflets at the Donner Steel works in Buffalo. The May 12 report giv...
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Milton Herndon
Released
Milton Herndon was one of six defendants prosecuted for picketing the Empire Cafeteria at 125th Street and Len...
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Sol Hertz
Released
Sol Hertz was a New York labor activist and Communist Party organizer. Police arrested him on a picket line on...
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Tommie Hicks
Tommie Hicks is named in the March 1973 Attica News with Sam Melville and L.D. Barkley as prisoners allegedly...
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Joseph Highkin
Joseph Highkin was arrested on the rent-strike picket line at 128 East 111th Street in New York after helping...
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Carol Hill
Released
Carol Hill was a Black grand-jury resister and paralegal who worked for William Kunstler on Christopher King's...
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Oscar Hill
Oscar Hill was arrested after police attacked the mass picket line supporting AmericanFarmer marine wireless o...

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