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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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Reinhard Schuermann
Reinhard Schuermann was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Sol Schulman
Sol Schulman was a needle-trades union militant subjected to extrajudicial confinement in New York. The Daily...
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Edward Schultz
Edward Schultz was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buf...
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Gisela Schumacher
Gisela Schumacher was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Israel Schwartz
Released
Israel Schwartz was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting the...
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Joshua Schwartz
Released
Joshua Schwartz was an animal-rights activist arrested with Benjamin Persky and Jennifer Greenberg for damagin...
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Ferdinand A. Von Schwedler
Ferdinand A. Von Schwedler was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor...
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Mark Scibilia-Carver
Released
Mark Scibilia-Carver is a peace activist from Trumansburg, New York who participated in the October 2012 prote...
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Nicola Scorcia
Nicola Scorcia was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Frank Scorry
Frank Scorry, thirty-four, was a New York cafeteria striker who chose an actual ten-day jail commitment instea...
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Sylvester Scott
Released
Sylvester Scott was an International Labor Defense supporter whose release from Rikers Island on May 1, 1936 f...
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Miriam Zeitlin Seborer
In Exile
Miriam Zeitlin Seborer was a physician, former Census Bureau employee and Navy WAVES veteran. She left the Uni...
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Oscar Seborer
In Exile
Oscar Seborer was an American electrical engineer and Army veteran who worked at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos duri...
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David Segal
Released
David Segal is identified in the Nuclear Resister as imprisoned at Fort Dix in March 2006 after an anti-recrui...
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Carlos Rolando Segura
Carlos Rolando Segura was a Guatemalan student who spent time in New York’s Greenwich Village during the 1960s...
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Omar Seku
Released
Omar Seku was one of the Attica Brothers — the prisoners the state of New York prosecuted after the September...
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Leo Seligman
Leo Seligman was one of six defendants prosecuted for picketing the Empire Cafeteria at 125th Street and Lenox...
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Joseph Sgovio
Joseph Sgovio was a district organizer of the Trade Union Unity League and a member of the Unemployed Councils...
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Jack Shaffron
Jack Shaffron, also printed Shafron in the same item, was a leader of the Superior Silk Mill store strike at 4...
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Lucia Shapiro
Released
Lucia Shapiro was one of 26 demonstrators arrested at City Hall Park in New York on May 3, 1960 for refusing t...
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Sonia Shapiro
Sonia Shapiro was a striking dressmaker held on an assault accusation during the New York dress strike in Marc...
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Kyle Shaw
Released
Kyle Shaw, bombed a Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2009 and was planning a second bombing wh...
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Patrick Shean
Released
Patrick Shean was one of five Ohrbach department-store pickets arrested in New York on Saturday, April 4, 1936...
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John Sheenan
John Sheenan was named as John Sheenan in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The repo...

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