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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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Martin Robbins
Released
Martin Robbins, a World War II veteran, was arrested with Olava Skottedal in Babylon, Long Island in 1950 for...
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Harold Robins
Harold Robins was a hotel-strike defendant sentenced for second-degree assault during the winter hotel strike....
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Florence Robinson
Released
Florence Robinson was treasurer of a women shoppers’ league participating in a strike against high food prices...
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Joseph Robinson
Joseph Robinson was arrested after police attacked the mass picket line supporting AmericanFarmer marine wirel...
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Karl S. Robinson
Released
Karl S. Robinson was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
K
Keyondre Robinson
Released
Keyondre Robinson, an 18-year-old from Buffalo, New York, was among those federally prosecuted after the May 3...
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Leonard Robinson
Leonard Robinson was arrested while picketing Marcus Shoe Store at 12 East Burnside Avenue in the Bronx at abo...
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George Robles
George Robles was a Young Lords Party member prosecuted in El Barrio, New York, on a sale-of-drugs allegation....
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John Roche
Released
John Roche was convicted of murder in New York City. His defenders said the conviction rested on a confession...
C
Charles Carlton Rodolph
Released
Charles Carlton Rodolph was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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Michael Rodriguez
Released
Michael Rodriguez was arrested on June 11, 2020. In 2020 in Brooklyn, NY, Michael Rodriguez, 32, a homeless m...
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Nicole Rogers
Nicole Rogers was held at Onondaga County Jail, where she went on a hunger strike with Jeffrey Watkins. Anima...
J
Julio Roldan
Julio was an inmate reported to have died at the Tombs following the October 1970 prison rebellion. The paper...
E
Edwin Rolfe
Edwin Rolfe is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arrest...
C
Carmelo Alvarez Roman
Released
Carmelo Alvarez Roman was an officer of party juntas in New York and Puerto Rico. A federal grand jury indicte...
A
Anton Romanchuck
Anton Romanchuck was a Local 2 member for ten years prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The Ja...
J
John Rooney
Released
John Rooney was one of four Irish Workers’ Club members arrested and beaten by police on June 22, 1932, after...
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Luis Rosado
Released
Luis Rosado was detained on August 22, 1977. New York Puerto Rican independence activist and brother of Julio...
J
Jack Rose
Jack Rose was individually named among nine people arrested for street speaking at Eastern Parkway and Utica A...
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Lou Rose
Released
Lou Rose and Larry Levy were arrested Friday, May 29, 1936 while picketing the Kitty Kelly shoe store on Fourt...
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Louis Rose
Louis Rose was arrested while picketing the Kitty Kelly shoe store at 40 East Fourteenth Street on Saturday, A...
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Sara Rose
Released
Sara Rose was a picket arrested when police broke the textile-trimmers’ picket line at the LouisHornickCompany...
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Sol Roseman
Released
Sol Roseman was a Food Workers Industrial Union picket arrested outside the public market at 8615 Twentieth Av...
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Jack Rosen
Released
Jack Rosen was one of four Communist election speakers arrested at Bleecker and McDougal streets in New York o...

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