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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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Bertha Rudd
Bertha Rudd was a National Hunger March delegate involved in the North Tonawanda, New York struggle for unempl...
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Fritz Gustav Rudolph
Fritz Gustav Rudolph was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
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Neil Russell
Neil Russell was among the Workers Unemployed Union members arrested during the Easter Sunday relief protest o...
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Lou Ruthman
Lou Ruthman, a union mattress worker, was one of five defendants arrested in the William Intner Mattress Compa...
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Sahilal Sabaratnam
Released
Sahilal Sarachandran, Nadarasa Yogarasa, Sathajhan Sarachandran, and Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam were involved...
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Jhajuan Sabb
Released
Jhajuan Sabb, of Troy NY, made several Facebook Live videos threatening to throw bricks at the Troy PD, Troy p...
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Sam Sadownick
Sam Sadownick was arrested May 9, 1930 under a shoe-strike picketing injunction and released on $50 bail, acco...
A
Asif-ur-Rehman Saffi
Released
Asif-ur-Rehman Saffi was a Pakistani visitor detained after a September 30, 2001 arrest at New York’s LaGuardi...
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Vincent Salminci
Vincent was one of the unionists detained in the Brownsville prosecution following the police shooting of Will...
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Charles Salonius
Charles Salonius was a Greek fur worker arrested on Saturday afternoon, June 11, 1927, on a felonious-assault...
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Andrea Salsedo
Andrea Salsedo was an Italian worker imprisoned in the United States Department of Justice building during the...
B
Benjamin Saltzman
Released
Benjamin Saltzman was a foreign-born resident arrested for deportation during the Cold War campaign against po...
A
Alex Sambuceto
Released
Alex Sambuceto was an organizer of the Bakery Workers Industrial Union during the fifty-five-day strike at Ang...
Y
Yasin El Sammak
Yasin El Sammak was held overnight after an August 20, 2025 Gaza-aid protest outside Egypt’s UN mission.
A
Alcee Samuels
Released
Alcee Samuels was a Black chief cook living in Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of October 3, 1933 reports that poli...
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Dora Sancoff
Dora Sancoff is named in the Brighton bread-strike court report in the February 19, 1932 Daily Worker. Five da...
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Eugene N. Sanctuary
Released
Eugene Nelson Sanctuary was a retired military officer and publisher associated with the American Christian De...
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Sam Sandberg
Sam was arrested at a permitted Young Communist League open-air meeting on June 24, 1932. SamSandberg was arr...
C
Chris Santiago
Chris Santiago is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendan...
J
John Michael Santiago
Released
John Michael Santiago was arrested on a civil-disorder charge after the 2020 Rochester protests over the killi...
J
Jose Santiago
Released
Jose Santiago was a Puerto Rican independence activist, former Communist and leader of the Provisional Organiz...
J
John Santo
Released
John Santo, also known as János Szántó and Desideriu Hammer, was a Romanian-born organizer for New York’s Tran...
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Ludwig Sardruk
Released
Ludwig Sardruk was a Russian noncitizen from Brooklyn recorded in the Swarthmore/Yoder conscientious-objector...
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Ted Sason
Ted Sason was a Fur Floor Boys Union member arrested after a reported attack while checking overtime in New Yo...

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