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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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Lazarus Marcowitz
Released
Lazarus Marcowitz was from Brooklyn, New York. Lazarus Marcowitz was drafted in 1918 and imprisoned as a consc...
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Markowitz
Markowitz was briefly arrested with knitgoods union organizer Rapoport at Vanity Knitting Mills, 140 West21st...
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Wallace Marks
Wallace Marks was named among the Harlem Youth Federation five arrested May16,1968 and charged with conspiraci...
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Michael Marsell
Michael Marsell, a union mattress worker, was one of five defendants arrested in the William Intner Mattress C...
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James Marti
James was an Ellis Island detainee who signed a 1933 prisoners’ letter opposing deportation. The June 5, 1933...
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James Martin
James Martin led a delegation of eleven unemployed workers arrested while seeking relief in New York. The July...
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Joe Martin
Released
Joe Martin was named as Joe Martin in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report s...
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William B. Martin
Released
William B. Martin was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Carlos Martinez
Released
Carlos Martinez was jailed after protesting the film Under the Texas Moon in New York in July 1930. The Daily...
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Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez is identified in Page 4 as organizer of the Food Workers Industrial Union's cafeteria departmen...
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Victor Martinez
Released
Victor Martinez was a member of the Inmates Liberation Front, the organization that grew out of the 1970 rebel...
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George Mashkow
Released
George Mashkow pleaded guilty in 2001 to one count of arson conspiracy related to ELF-claimed fires at Long Is...
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Peter Masukas
Released
Peter Masukas was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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David Mathews
Released
David Mathews was the loyalist Mayor of New York City. In June 1776 he was arrested and accused of involvement...
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Henry Matthews
Released
Henry Matthews, born Enrique Masseo, was an eighteen-year-old Puerto Rican sentenced to death in New York afte...
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James Matthews
James Matthews was identified as the victim of a lynch murder on Welfare Island in the October 9, 1933 Daily W...
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Peter Matusewitch
Released
Peter Matusewitch was a draft counselor and nonviolence trainer with the Quaker Project on Community Conflict....
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Anna May
Anna May was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon acquitt...
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Jacob Friedrich Mayer
Jacob Friedrich Mayer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
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Wm. Mayers
Wm. Mayers was named as a Black worker arrested when New York police broke up a Harlem welcome demonstration f...
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Joseph Mazzuchelli
Released
Joseph Mazzuchelli was a co-conspirator with John Ford and Edward Zabo in a 1996 plot to use radium-laced cani...
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McCairney
McCairney is named in the July 1, 1932 court announcement with Mallalay, Rooney and Moriarity as four Irish Wo...
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Vincent McCormick
Vincent McCormick is named in Page 2, a painter, among four workers arrested during the July 26 Bremen anti-Na...
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Desmond McCoy
Desmond McCoy was among six Black Civilian Conservation Corps recruits interviewed after five days’ imprisonme...

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