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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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May Kaplan
May Kaplan was arrested at the Friday July 19, 1929 demonstration outside the Nanking consulate, 13 Astor Plac...
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Nathan Kaplan
Released
Nathan Kaplan was one of the workers arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Street demonstration against U.S. inter...
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Rose Kaplan
Rose Kaplan was a Cafeteria Workers’ Union activist in New York. During the union’s organizing and picketing c...
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Nicholas Karter
Released
Nicholas Karter was president of Hairdressers Union Local560-B in the Bronx. The Daily Worker of November12,19...
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Frances Kass
Frances Kass is individually named in Page 5 as a picket arrested the preceding week at Fairway Hat Co., 49 We...
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Harry Kasseon
Harry Kasseon was among Brooklyn shoe workers reported convicted of assault on May 6, 1930. Sentencing was ann...
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Steve Katovis
Steve Katovis was a strike picket shot on January 16, 1930. The January 24 report says he lay dying in hospita...
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L. Katowitz
L. was a demonstrator jailed after protesting Harry Eisman’s recommitment in 1930. The March 25, 1930 report...
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Tom Katsikia
Tom Katsikia was a garment striker arrested outside Needleman and Bremmer, 263 West 40th Street, New York. The...
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Harold Katz
Harold Katz is identified in the Christmas visit account as serving a sentence at Raymond Street Jail in Brook...
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Jennie Katz
Jennie Katz was arrested on August 25, 1931. The August 28 report names these workers as arrested during the...
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Julius Katz
Released
Julius Katz was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Sander Katz
Released
Sander Katz was a pacifist and anarchist associated with the postwar libertarian magazine Alternative (publish...
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Ruben Kaufman
Ruben Kaufman was a labor prisoner held at Welfare Island in New York City. Page 4 reports that a delegation o...
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Harold Keithline
Harold Keithline was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayet...
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James Kelly
Released
James Kelly was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to Irish...
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John Kelly
Released
John Kelly was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...
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Rose Kelly
Released
Rose Kelly was a New York worker jailed in connection with Solomon Harper’s anti-lynching activism in 1930. Co...
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S. Kelman
Released
S. Kelman was a labor prisoner welcomed by the Brownsville International Labor Defense branch, Jewish Workers...
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Joseph Kerensky
Joseph Kerensky was a garment worker prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The January 29, 1927...
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Ernst Herman Kerkhof
Ernst Herman Kerkhof was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
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Margaret Kerry
Margaret Kerry was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York prosecutions of 1741–1742. Th...
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Efim Kertz
Efim Kertz is named in the September 1920 One Big Union Monthly among nineteen IWW members then held at Ellis...
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William Keteltas
Released
William Keteltas was a Republican lawyer jailed by the New York Assembly in 1796 after challenging officials 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