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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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Edith Sherr
Released
Edith Sherr was a millinery worker jailed for picketing in New York. The December 13, 1928 Daily Worker report...
M
Martin Sherr
Martin Sherr was a Socialist Party member whose arrest was reported in the contemporary account. Printed page...
N
N. Shiek
N. Shiek is named in the Brighton bread-strike court report in the February 19, 1932 Daily Worker. One day imp...
M
Morris Shiffman
Morris Shiffman was a Bronx laundry-strike picket arrested on Wednesday, May 29, 1929, at Starlight Laundry, 2...
B
Bernard Shipman
Bernard Shipman (printed alias Iron Mike) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica...
F
Fannie Shook
Fannie Shook was a garment striker arrested outside Needleman and Bremmer, 263 West 40th Street, New York. The...
B
Bessie Siegel
Bessie Siegel was named among dress-strike pickets arrested in connection with the Jerry Dress injunction in N...
F
Frank Siegel
Frank Siegel is identified in the White Plains notice, district organizer of the Friends of the Soviet Union,...
F
Fred Siems
Fred Siems was a Socialist Party member whose arrest was reported in the contemporary account. Printed page 3...
G
Gus Sikorsky
Gus Sikorsky was a tenant arrested at his landlord’s request after unemployed workers restored his belongings....
B
Bernard Silber
Released
Bernard Silber was a New York unionist prosecuted for refusing to answer House Un-American Activities Committe...
E
Elly Margarethe Silberhorn
Elly Margarethe Silberhorn was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor...
H
Hyman Silkowitz
Hyman was a tailor arrested during the August 8, 1932 police attack on a clothing-worker demonstration in New...
A
Albert Sills
Albert Sills was arrested on the rent-strike picket line at 128 East 111th Street in New York after helping pr...
E
Emanuel Silver
Released
Emanuel Silver was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
M
Marcia Silver
Released
Marcia Silver was a May’s Department Store striker in Brooklyn and a member of the retail-clerks union. The st...
M
Morris Silver
Morris Silver was a Bronx grocery-union picket whom the August 15, 1928 Daily Worker individually names among...
M
Murray Silver
Murray Silver was arrested Saturday July 20, 1929 at the Young Pioneer demonstration against the militarist Bo...
S
Samuel Silver
Samuel Silver was a New York taxi driver arrested after asking to speak at a Bronx Taxi Drivers Union meeting...
H
Harriet Silverman
Released
Harriet Silverman, secretary of the NewYork AllAmerica AntiImperialist League, was named among five workers se...
W
William Silverman
William Silverman was arrested while picketing the Kitty Kelly shoe store at 40 East Fourteenth Street on Satu...
H
H. Silverstein
H. Silverstein was a fur worker arrested while picketing on Friday afternoon, June 10, 1927. The June 14 Daily...
H
Homer Simmers
Homer Simmers was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buff...
I
Israel Simon
Released
Israel Simon was a needle-trades organizer imprisoned on an assault charge arising from union organizing. The...

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