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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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Edward Newhouse
Edward Newhouse is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers ar...
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Jack Newman
Jack was one of the unionists detained in the Brownsville prosecution following the police shooting of William...
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Jiri Newport
Jiri Newport was an Attica prisoner known as O.J., according to Attica News. The March 1973 Attica News descr...
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Lois Newton
Lois Newton was beaten and arrested by Port Authority police in New York on November 28, 1970, according to th...
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Phillip Nicholas
Released
Phillip Nicholas was arrested after participating in the May 26, 1934 demonstration in New York. The Daily Wor...
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Trofin Nicolaieff
Released
Trofin Nicolaieff was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Angel Nieves
Angel Nieves was an imprisoned organizer at Auburn Correctional Facility in New York, identified in contempora...
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George Nieves
George Nieves was an incarcerated Attica participant interviewed by WBAI in February 1972 among prisoners isol...
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Eugene Nigob
Eugene Nigob was named among six NorthHarlem relief delegates arrested June23,1932 while seeking help for an e...
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William Ninos
William Ninos wrote on May 11, 1929 from New York Prison while actually serving a five-day term connected with...
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Samuel North
Released
Samuel North is identified in Marshall as one of three New York State civilian agents arrested in Washington o...
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Daniel Northrup
Released
Daniel Northrup was a Delaware County, New York tenant farmer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of U...
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Raymond A. Northrup
Released
Raymond A. Northrup was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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John Noto
Released
John Noto was a Buffalo Communist Party leader arrested on August 31, 1955 under a 1954 sealed indictment char...
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Paul Novak
Paul Novak was arrested for distributing leaflets during the Food Workers Industrial Union strike at Carnival...
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Michael O'Rourke
Released
Michael O'Rourke was an Irish republican who sought to remain in the United States after escaping from impriso...
P
Pat O'Shea
Released
Pat O'Shea was named among May's Department Store strike pickets arrested February 22, 1936 at 510 Fulton Stre...
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Robert Okum
Robert Okum was a bystander in a nearby hallway whom police seized, beat and took to jail after an object thro...
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John Olden
John Olden was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
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Olms
Olms was one of four leaders arrested at a Brooklyn unemployed-relief picket at the Sixtieth Street Home Relie...
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Ramsey Orta
Ramsey was the person who filmed the police killing of Eric Garner. Filmed the police killing of Eric Garner....
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William Ortiz
Released
William Ortiz was one of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping and unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 197...
J
James Osborne
James Osborne was named as James Osborne in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The re...
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B. Osofsky
Released
B. Osofsky was arrested at 43rd Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn for distributing working-class literature...

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