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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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Dave Turner
Released
Dave Turner was a New York dressmaker and labor organizer who served as vice-chairman of the garment workers'...
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Verdell Turner
Verdell Turner (printed alias Zuri) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica upris...
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Sidney Turoff
Released
Sidney Turoff was convicted in December 1959 for refusing to give the House Un-American Activities Committee t...
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John Ujick
John Ujick wrote from room 213 at Ellis Island in the November 12, 1934 Daily Worker. His first-person account...
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William Ullman
Released
William Ullman, identified in the DOJ bulletin as William Ludwig Ullmann, was the subject of the first Supreme...
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Abraham Unger
Released
Abraham Unger was a New York attorney who refused to answer Senator McCarthy's questions during the McCarthy e...
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John Ury
John Ury was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York prosecutions of 1741–1742. He was a...
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Karoku Utsumi
Karoku Utsumi was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Shirley Uzin
Shirley Uzin was a Young Communist League member arrested with another young woman on February 23, 1936 while...
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Emanuel Vajtauer
Released
Emanuel Vajtauer was an editor of Obrana involved in a deportation prosecution. The May 11, 1925 Daily Worker...
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Juan Hernandez Valle
Released
Juan Hernandez Valle was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass...
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Joseph Valsky
Released
Joseph Valsky was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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John Van Steenburgh
Released
John Van Steenburgh was a Delaware County, New York 'Calico Indian' convicted of the August 7, 1845 killing of...
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Anthony J. Vanzawaren
Released
Anthony J. Vanzawaren was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university...
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Jimmy Vardy
Jimmy Vardy was a Miller shoe striker taken from strike headquarters by a detective, according to the Daily Wo...
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Pedro Aviles Vargas
Released
Pedro Aviles Vargas was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass t...
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David Varker
David Varker was a fruit-strike organizer arrested at Bathgate in New York in the July 26, 1928 Daily Worker a...
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Robert Vickers
Robert was a prisoner in New York named in a May 30, 1975 prisoner statement. The newsletter’s prisoner state...
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Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy
Released
Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, along with Nachimuthu Socrates, Vijayshanthar Patpanathan, Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian,...
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John Visaritis
Released
John Visaritis was a labor defendant whom the June 8, 1927 Daily Worker describes as having received a ninety-...
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Jacob Vogel
Released
Jacob Vogel was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Max Vogel
Max Vogel was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29,...
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Rocco Volpe
Released
Rocco Volpe was one of the five Utica unemployed defendants in the Utica, New York unemployed-council case. Fi...
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Sebastian Vonderbank
Sebastian Vonderbank was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...

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