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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.

B
Brian Hynes
Released
Brian Hynes is a Bronx peace activist associated with Upstate Drone Action. On October 25, 2012, he joined a n...
C
Carlo Ilminski
Carlo Ilminski was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buf...
B
B. Iritrator
B. was arrested during an outdoor protest at the Schlom and Deutsch bakery. The June 9 report individually na...
I
Isadore Izen
Isadore Izen was arrested June 16, 1933 at Coney Island beach after protesting police beating a peddler. The D...
A
Albert Jackson
Albert Jackson was one of three Black young men, reported as twenty-one to twenty-two years old, picked up at...
C
Charles Jackson
Released
Charles Jackson was named as Charles Jackson in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. Th...
F
Freda Jackson
Freda Jackson was a member of the unemployment-relief delegation beaten and arrested at New York City Hall on...
R
Raymond Jackson
Raymond Jackson is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defenda...
F
Frieda Jackson
Frieda Jackson, organizer of the Upper Harlem Unemployment Council, was beaten and jailed during the June 30,...
A
Anne Jacobs
Anne was arrested November 7, 1929 while distributing leaflets to soldiers at the Fourteenth Street Armory. Je...
F
Felix Jahnke
Felix Jahnke was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
W
William Oral James
Released
William Oral James was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
N
Nazmi Jamiel
Nazmi Jamiel was an anti-fascist worker arrested while picketing the German consulate in a Free Thaelmann demo...
J
Jelapis
Jelapis was a New York cafeteria strike picket. The March 15, 1930 Daily Worker names three pickets held under...
D
David Jenkins
David Jenkins was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette...
S
Susan Jenkins
Susan Jenkins is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arre...
L
Louis Joell
Louis Joell was a Communist League member jailed for organizing leaflet distribution demanding free food for w...
F
Friedrich Johanning
Friedrich Johanning was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
A
Armstrong John
Armstrong John (printed alias Bif) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprisi...
P
Paul Willi Heinz John
Paul Willi Heinz John was listed in INS custody as a civilian internee on February 29, 1944. INS recorded Pau...
C
C. L. Johnson
Released
C. L. Johnson was named as C. L. Johnson in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The re...
A
A. Johnson
A. Johnson was among five speakers arrested June 7, 1930 at 149th Street and Third Avenue, charged with disord...
A
Augustus J. Johnson
Released
Augustus J. Johnson was a New York City subway motorman and an official of the Motormen's Benevolent Associati...
J
John Earl Johnson
Released
John Earl Johnson was found with CDs containing terrorism information / explosive-making instructions and was...

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