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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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Elizabeth Meuser
Elizabeth Meuser was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
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Waldemar Meuser
Waldemar Meuser was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...
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William Meyer
Released
William Meyer was a disabled Unemployed Council leader in Mineola, Long Island. The November 12, 1934 Daily Wo...
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Ignatz Mezei
Released
Ignatz Mezei was a Buffalo carpenter and officer of the International Workers Order’s Hungarian lodge. After r...
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Robert Miles
Robert Miles is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Sam Milgrom
Released
Sam Milgrom was the national executive secretary of the International Workers Order. During the campaign to de...
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Ida Miller
Ida was individually named among workers arrested during Saturday mass picketing of Brighton Beach bakeries fo...
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Jacob Miller
Released
Jacob Miller was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Julia Miller
Julia Miller was arrested April 25, 1929 while distributing May Day leaflets near Pennsylvania Station at 32nd...
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Leonard Miller
Released
Leonard Miller was a New York dressmaker prosecuted with Dave Turner during the Needleman and Bremmer strike....
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May Miller
Released
May Miller was a young Communist arrested in New York City in 1930 for distributing anti-militarist leaflets t...
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Sam Miller
Sam Miller was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette Str...
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Victoria Miller
Victoria Miller was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon...
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Chin Hong Ming
Released
Chin Hong Ming was a Chinese-American convicted in federal court in New York in 1954 under the Trading With th...
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Simon Minor
Simon Minor was a Black worker and Georgia chain-gang survivor living in Hempstead, Long Island. Police arrest...
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John Mirabel
John Mirabel is named in Page 4 as another defendant in the Adele Cafeteria strike prosecution in New York. It...
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Clara Mishkin
Released
Clara Mishkin was jailed in New York for distributing leaflets denouncing police killings and brutality. The D...
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John Mitchell
John Mitchell (printed alias the Rock) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica up...
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Robert Mitchell
Robert Mitchell, a Black International Labor Defense member, was arrested while active in the New York laundry...
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Ignatz Mizher
Released
Ignatz Mizher was a member of the Communist Party from New York City. Ignatz Mizher served a sentence in Sing...
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Gustav Mocha
Gustav Mocha was named as Gustav Mocha in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The repo...
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Morris Modin
Morris Modin was among six Zelgreen cafeteria pickets who had served disorderly-conduct terms and remained jai...
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Patrick Moley
Released
Patrick Moley was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IRA. He was h...
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Elsie Monakian
Released
Elsie Monakian was dragged from her bed and jailed at 1 a.m. by police, and was a striker with Local 1250 of t...

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