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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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Sadie Mondell
Sadie Mondell was one of the fur-market workers individually named as actually arrested in the July 26, 1928 D...
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Pedro Mario Monges
Released
Pedro Mario Monges, also known as Chango Caribe and Chango Monges, was associated with the Black Liberation Ar...
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Elsie Monokian
Released
Elsie Monokian was a May’s department store striker in Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of January 31, 1936 reports...
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Isma-El Rahim
Released
Alfred was a New Afrikan political prisoner held at Auburn Correctional Facility in New York. Listed as a Nort...
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Martin Mooney
Martin Mooney was a New York reporter who began a thirty-day jail sentence on Friday, January 17, 1936 for ref...
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Adelene Moore
Adelene Moore was one of six defendants prosecuted for picketing the Empire Cafeteria at 125th Street and Leno...
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Laverne Moore
Laverne was an inmate reported to have died at the Tombs following the October 1970 prison rebellion. The pap...
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Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore was arrested after police attacked the mass picket line supporting AmericanFarmer marine wireles...
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Warren Moore
Warren Moore was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buffa...
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Paschal Morahan
Released
Paschal Morahan was one of the Fort Worth Five, five Irish-American men jailed in Texas in 1972 for refusing t...
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Crawford Morgan
Crawford Morgan was among five workers arrested when police attacked an Unemployment Councils delegation deman...
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John Morgan
Released
John Morgan was an organizer for the Marine Workers' League. John Morgan served a six-month term on New York's...
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John Morgan
Released
John Morgan was named as John Morgan in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report...
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D. Morgenstern
D. Morgenstern was arrested after helping lead a Bronx protest, according to his own signed letter. In a sign...
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Martin Moriarty
Released
Martin Moriarty was one of four Irish Workers’ Club members arrested and beaten by police on June 22, 1932, af...
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Sid Morris
Sid Morris was one of four May’s Department Store strikers arrested December 28, 1935 and tried on rioting cha...
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Louise Morrison
Louise Morrison was individually named among nine people arrested for street speaking at Eastern Parkway and U...
A
Anne Morrissett
Released
Anne Morrissett was among the 26 protesters arrested at City Hall Park in New York on May 3, 1960 for refusing...
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Shafal Mosed
Released
Shafal Mosed was identified among the Lackawanna Six in FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statemen...
J
Jane Moses
Released
Jane Moses was a young pacifist arrested with her husband Richard in Times Square during New York City's July...
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Richard Moses
Released
Richard Moses was a young pacifist arrested in Times Square carrying anti-war signs during New York City's Jul...
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Harry Moskowitz
Released
Harry Moskowitz, a former Gran Laundry Service employee, was jailed for contempt after breaching an injunction...
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Petros Moutsos
Released
Petros Moutsos was a young Greek seaman and member of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions (outlawed in Gre...
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Deane Mowrer
Released
Deane Mowrer was an associate editor of the Catholic Worker, one of ten pacifists jailed in July 1957 for refu...

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