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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.

859Documented
24In custody
787Released
2Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1950s 137 1910s 137 1970s 87 1960s 87 1980s 81 1930s 65

Documented cases

859 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Richard Gladstein
Released
Richard Gladstein was one of the five defense lawyers for the eleven Communist leaders tried at the 1949 Foley...
John Theodore Glick
Released
John Theodore “Ted” Glick, born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, is an American antiwar, progressive and climate-j...
Ben Gold
Released
Bessarabia-born; longtime Communist president of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union. Resigned pub...
Emma Goldman
Released
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and orator who emigrated to the United States in 188...
David Gordon
Released
David Gordon was a Communist trade unionist, author, editor, and journalist. Born in Ukraine, he immigrated to...
Teresa Grady
Released
Teresa Grady is an Ithaca Catholic Worker and one of three Grady sisters (with Clare and Mary Anne) at the hea...
Mary Anne Grady-Flores
Released
Mary Anne Grady-Flores is an Ithaca Catholic Worker, photographer, and one of three Grady sisters (with Clare...
Marcus Graham
Released
Marcus Graham (the pen name of Shmuel Marcus) was an anarchist editor — of the Anarchist Soviet Bulletin (1919...
Rebecca Grecht
Released
Rebecca Grecht, a Workers Party election campaign manager, was arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Street demons...
Calogero Greco
Released
Calogero Greco, born in Sicily around 1893–1894 (a 1927 report gives his age as 33), was a Sicilian-born veter...
Gil Green
Released
ONE OF TWELVE COMMUNISTS SENTENCED UNDER DENNIS V. UNITED STATES: Gil Green, a leader of the communist Workers...
Shields Green
Shields Green was a fugitive from slavery in South Carolina who had escaped to the North and become close to F...
David Greenglass
Released
Ethel Rosenberg's younger brother; Army machinist at Los Alamos who passed plutonium-bomb sketches to Soviet c...
Priscilla Grim
Awaiting Trial
Priscilla Grim, age 48 of Brooklyn, New York, was a longtime media organizer with Occupy Wall Street in 2011-2...
Basheer Hameed
Bashir Hameed was a Black liberation activist who worked within the Black Panther Party and later became assoc...
Dashiell Hammett
Released
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was the most influential American detective novelist of the twentieth century — the cr...
Syed Fahad Hashmi
Released
Syed Fahad Hashmi is a Pakistani-American student of Brooklyn College and the London School of Economics. He w...
Ali Bey Hassan
Released
Ali Bey Hassan, born John J. Casson, was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York P...
Jacob E. Haugen
Released
Jacob E. Haugen was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Howard Gresham Hawkins III
Released
Dartmouth-educated New England construction worker in the 1970s who co-founded the Clamshell Alliance in 1976....
Teddy Heath
Teddy "Jah" Heath joined the Black Panther Party in 1968 and was associated with the Black Liberation Army. Ar...
Julian Heicklen
Released
Julian Heicklen was a Penn State professor who began political activism during the Civil Rights Movement where...
Ammon Hennacy
Released
Ammon Hennacy Hennacy was a pacifist and “Christian anarchist” whose activism emphasized nonviolence, personal...
John Boncore Hill
Released
Mohawk (Haudenosaunee) prisoner and one of the leaders of the September 1971 Attica State Prison uprising in N...

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
184 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
17 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
14 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
11 cases
MDC BrooklynBrooklyn, New York
9 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
9 cases
Blackwell's Island PenitentiaryNew York, New York
8 cases