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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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Ephraim Kierty
Released
Ephraim Kierty was named as Ephraim Kierty in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The...
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Sam Kimmel
Samuel Kimmel was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing of a...
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Darryl King
Released
Darryl King was arrested on May 18, 1970. Black ex-serviceman arrested in 1970 and convicted of killing a New...
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Stanley King
Stanley King was a defendant prosecuted following the 1970 rebellion at the Manhattan House of Detention, know...
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T. R. Kinget
Released
T. R. Kinget was a physician prosecuted under the Comstock laws in the late 1880s for selling his book "Medica...
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Ottmar Kirchner
Ottmar Kirchner was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...
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Alex Kisil
Released
Alex Kisil was named as Alex Kisil in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report s...
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Sol Kitain
Sol Kitain, a secretary of Upholstery Workers International Union Local 140, was one of five defendants arrest...
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S. Kitty
S. was a worker arrested at the December 5 Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau protest. The December 7 report names t...
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Esther Kleiman
Esther Kleiman was a New York participant in a fur workers’ visit supporting the 1926 Passaic textile strike....
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Sylvia Kleiman
Sylvia Kleiman was a New York participant in a fur workers’ visit supporting the 1926 Passaic textile strike....
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Isabel Kleimon
Isabel was arrested November 7, 1929 while distributing leaflets to soldiers at the Fourteenth Street Armory....
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Dan Klein
Dan Klein was one of four May’s Department Store strikers arrested December 28, 1935 and tried on rioting char...
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Jack Klein
Released
Jack Klein was one of three labor activists jailed for speaking to workers of the Coney Island Corporation at...
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Rose Klein
Released
Rose Klein was one of three labor activists jailed for speaking to workers of the Coney Island Corporation at...
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Pearl Kleinman
Pearl Kleinman was a dress striker in New York. The Daily Worker of March 13, 1931, page 1, names Sarah Spewac...
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Max Klenner
Max Klenner was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 2...
M
Myer Klig
Released
Myer Klig was a Russian-born labor activist who had lived permanently in the United States since 1941. Immigra...
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Herbert Kline
Herbert Kline is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arre...
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Jack Kline
Jack Kline was a Fur Dyers Union Unemployment Council organizer, individually named among eight workers arrest...
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Isidore Klinghofer
Released
Isidore Klinghofer was arrested July 31, 1929 for speaking at an antiwar preparatory meeting at 27th Street an...
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Michael Klueger
Michael Klueger was charged with felonious assault in a butchers’ union dispute, according to the Daily Worker...
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Lewis Knapp
Released
Lewis Knapp was one of the first Anti-Rent prisoners, prosecuted under New York's new law against appearing ar...
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Neil Knox
Neil was named by a retrospective New York State report as a BLA associate actually arrested in the December 1...

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