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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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Paul August Rausch
Paul August Rausch was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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Milton Rayfield
Milton Rayfield was one of four young people arrested Tuesday, August 18, 1936 while picketing Alfred Landon a...
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Stephen Rechkoff
Released
Stephen Rechkoff was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Chris Reed
Chris Reed is identified in the Liberated Guardian as an incarcerated Attica defendant. It discusses the postr...
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Enoch Reed
Released
Enoch Reed was a Defendant in the federal prosecutions following the October 1, 1851 Jerry Rescue in Syracuse,...
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Hyman Reich
Hyman Reich was an organizer for the Food Workers Industrial Union arrested after an attack on pickets at the...
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Joan Reilly
Released
Joan was 20 at the time of indictment. From Brightwaters, Long Island, a psychology/philosophy junior at Marym...
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Matthias Reilly
Released
Matthias Reilly was one of the Fort Worth Five, five Irish-American men jailed in Texas in 1972 for refusing t...
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J. Reissman
Released
J. Reissman was a butcher-union picket arrested with two fellow pickets at Pol Roth’s shop, 4113 13th Avenue,...
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William Reside
Released
William Reside was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Unde...
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Rose Resnikoff
Released
Rose Resnikoff was a young Communist arrested in New York City in 1930 for distributing anti-militarist leafle...
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Luther F. Reynolds
Released
Luther F. Reynolds was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Eva Rezzie
Eva Rezzie, also printed Rezzi, was a 21-year-old Young Communist League member arrested in Coney Island after...
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Robert Rhodes
Robert Rhodes is identified in Page 2 as arrested Friday night, July 26, 1935 at a protest at the Forty-Sevent...
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Bev Rice
Released
Beverly “Bev” Rice is a Manhattan antiwar activist who was prosecuted after a December 1, 2009 protest at West...
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Robert Rice
Released
Robert was one of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of cloth...
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Robert Rice
Released
Robert Rice, identified as the son of playwright Elmer Rice, was arrested while picketing Ohrbach's department...
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Sarah Rice
Released
Sarah Rice was arrested on February 7, 1936 during an unemployment demonstration at Precinct 19 Home Relief Bu...
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Fred Richardson
Fred Richardson was a former New York Black Panther Party officer added as the twenty-second defendant in the...
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James 33X Richey
James 33X Richey is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defend...
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Joseph Riechenfeld
Joseph Riechenfeld was one of three striking painters arrested following a clash at Cooper Union in New York d...
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Georg Riemschneider
Georg Riemschneider was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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John Riley
Released
John Riley was an Irish-born U.S. Army soldier who defected before the Mexican-American War and founded the Sa...
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Bramlo Riviera
Bramlo Riviera, reported aged 22, was a cafeteria striker whom the April 26, 1929 newspaper individually says...

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