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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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Gunner Ostberg
Gunner Ostberg was a Scandinavian Workers Club member arrested at his job and taken to Ellis Island, according...
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Barney Oster
Barney Oster was among five workers arrested when police attacked an Unemployment Councils delegation demandin...
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Jose Antonio Otero Otero
Released
Jose Antonio Otero Otero was vice-president of the New York junta, editor of its newspaper, and the party’s mi...
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Magnus Otterholm
Released
Magnus Otterholm was named as Magnus Otterholm in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster....
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Ludwig Otto
Ludwig Otto was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 2...
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William Outlaw
William Outlaw is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendan...
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Daniel O’Hagan
Daniel O’Hagan was jailed twice alongside Dorothy Day for refusing to participate in compulsory air-raid drill...
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William O’Neill
Released
William O’Neill was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to I...
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Pat O’Shay
Pat O’Shay was arrested among ten pickets outside May’s Department Store at 510 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, on Sa...
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Charles P. Casey
Released
Charles P. Casey was an American able-bodied seaman arrested at Hamburg on April 10, 1936 after Hitler jokes a...
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Joseph Pacheco
Released
Joseph Pacheco was secretary of the New Bedford branch of the International Labor Defense, a textile-strike co...
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Vincent Padula
Vincent Padula was a thirty-two-year-old Italian laborer whose deportation was stopped on Saturday, August 22,...
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Jack Palisky
Jack Palisky was arrested May 26, 1934 during the relief demonstration at Commissioner Hodson’s office in New...
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Andrew Papachut
Andrew Papachut was a New York cafeteria striker who chose commitment to the Tombs rather than paying a ten-do...
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Pappini
Pappini was a New York cafeteria strike picket. The March 15, 1930 Daily Worker names three pickets held under...
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Wilbur Parhill
Wilbur Parhill was a local secretary of the Unemployed Council and a National Hunger March delegate involved i...
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Milton Parish
Released
Milton Parish, also reported as Milton Parrish, was a writer jailed for refusing grand-jury testimony in the N...
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Saul Parker
Saul Parker was among the Workers Unemployed Union members arrested during the Easter Sunday relief protest on...
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Richard Parlen
Richard was a Black worker held in Bellevue Hospital’s prison ward after a racist mob attacked him at an East...
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Nick Parras
Nick was a Foltis-Fischer cafeteria picket held in the Tombs on bail. The March 4, 1933 report says the Folti...
P
Polychronis Paschalidis
Released
Polychronis 'Paul' Paschalidis was the New York secretary of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions, outlawed...
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Joseph Pass
Released
Joseph Pass was a writer from New York, New York. Joseph Pass was arrested in New York City in October 1917 fo...
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Vijayshanthar Patpanathan
Released
Patpanathan, along with Nachimuthu Socrates, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian, Namasivaya Vi...
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John Paul
John Paul was named among workers facing court proceedings in the grocery-strike report published May 24, 1930...

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