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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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Sam Suskin
Sam was a defendant in the prosecution over policeman R. P. Smith’s death at Seventh Street and Avenue A. The...
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Herbert Sussbach
Herbert Sussbach was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
A
Alice J. Swartz
Released
Alice J. Swartz was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
P
Patricia Swinton
Released
Patricia "Pat" Swinton was a New Left radical charged in connection with a wave of bombings of corporate and g...
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Samuel Sánchez
Released
Samuel Sánchez, a 28-year-old mental-health worker, was held in civil contempt on January 24, 1989 by Judge Eu...
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Leon Taback
Leon Taback was a New York worker arrested after a delegation from the Allerton Avenue Unemployed Neighborhood...
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Leon Tabeck
Leon was named as arrested at a Bronx Home Relief Bureau demonstration and facing prosecution. No exact arrest...
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Jessie Taft
Jessie Taft was a Young Pioneer organizer seized during the May 18, 1929 demonstration against police brutalit...
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Yasein Taher
Yasein Taher was identified among the Lackawanna Six in FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statemen...
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Hanjiro San Takeuchi
Hanjiro San Takeuchi was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
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Sam Taplitsky
Sam Taplitsky was named in a report of arrests during the Remington-Rand strike at Tonawanda. The paper report...
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Manuel Tarazona
Released
Manuel Tarazona was one of the 39 foreign-born radicals re-arrested when the Civil Rights Congress bail fund w...
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Doretta Tarmon
Doretta Tarmon was a Brooklyn mother of two arrested during the May 1933 campaign by unemployed workers for re...
J
John Taylor
John Taylor was a busboy and waiter prosecuted for picketing during the 1929 New York cafeteria strike. A bus...
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Merjella Taylor
Released
Merjella Taylor was a Black woman arrested while supporting the National Shoe strike at 114 West 125th Street...
M
Marthe Teichman
Marthe Teichman was the Communist candidate opposing Representative O’Connor in New York’s Sixteenth Congressi...
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Henry Tense
Henry Tense was arrested June 16, 1933 at Coney Island beach after protesting police beating a peddler. The Da...
A
Alfred Terry
Alfred Terry was a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 in New York. The Daily Wo...
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Erwin Tewelcit
Erwin Tewelcit was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam
Released
Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam was arrested on August 19, 2006. Sahilal Sarachandran, Nadarasa Yogarasa, Sathajha...
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Pratheepan Thavaraja
Released
Pratheepan Thavaraja, Nachimuthu Socrates, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, Vijayshanthar Patpanathan, Gaspar Raj Mar...
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M. Theos
M. Theos was arrested in New York while distributing shop papers and leaflets calling for the August 1, 1930 a...
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Rudolf Theune
Rudolf Theune was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Heinrich Thewes
Heinrich Thewes was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...

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