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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.

859Documented
24In custody
787Released
2Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1950s 137 1910s 137 1970s 87 1960s 87 1980s 81 1930s 65

Documented cases

859 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Louis Miller
Released
Dr. Louis Miller was a New York physician and an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm...
Shelley Miller
Released
Shelley Miller was an anti-imperialist organizer and Puerto Rican independence activist who led the New Moveme...
Jacob Mindel
Released
Jacob Mindel was the senior member of the Foley Square Second String, the Communist Party USAs internal educat...
Robert Minor
Released
Robert Minor, the celebrated cartoonist turned communist organizer, was arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Stre...
Hector Xavier Monsegur
Released
Hector Xavier Monsegur, known online as Sabu, was a central organizer of Anonymous and its offshoot LulzSec be...
Henry Monsky
Released
Henry Monsky was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
Ricarte Montes García
Released
Member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP) jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify before...
Howard Wilbur Moore
Released
Howard Wilbur Moore New York farm laborer drafted in 1918 and sent to Camp Upton on April 29; refusing the uni...
Howard Moore
Released
Howard Wilbur Moore of Cherry Valley, New York, was an atheist and socialist absolutist who grounded his refus...
Dhoruba bin Wahad
Released
Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, born Richard Moore in The Bronx in 1944, was a leader of the New York chapter of...
William Morales
Released
FALN member severely injured in a 1978 premature bomb explosion at a Queens, NY safehouse that took both of hi...
Fidelis Moscinski
Released
Father Fidelis Moscinski is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal (CFR) from the Bronx, New York, a Catholic pries...
Johann Most
Released
Johann Most was a German-American anarchist and the editor of the newspaper Freiheit, an advocate of "propagan...
Jalil Muntaqim
Released
Jalil Muntaqim is a political activist and a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member who, after...
Louis Murray
Released
Louis Murray was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...
Paul Novick
Released
Paul Novick was the editor of the Yiddish-language daily Morning Freiheit in New York, one of dozens of foreig...
Edward O'Connor
Released
Delaware County, New York 'Calico Indian' convicted alongside John Van Steenburgh of the August 7, 1845 killin...
Ciaron O'Reilly
Released
Ciaron O’Reilly is an Australian peace campaigner and long-time Catholic Worker organizer whose activism inclu...
Joseph F. O'Rourke
Released
A Jesuit (Society of Jesus) then in formation (ordained a priest around 1971), O'Rourke joined the Jesuits in...
Sekou Odinga
Released
Odinga was a New Afrikan activist who moved through key currents of the Black Power era—beginning with the Org...
Therese Patricia Okoumou
Released
Therese Patricia Okoumou, age 45, scaled the Statue of Liberty pedestal on July 4, 2018 in protest of the Trum...
Edward Oquendo
Released
Edward Oquendo was a young Black anti-war activist, a member of Blacks Against Negative Dying and of Youth Aga...
Juan Otero
Released
Juan Otero (Juan Otero Jr.) was a South Bronx Puerto Rican community activist and construction-trades anti-dis...
Carl Paivio
Released
Carl Paivio, born Karl Einar Päiviö on November 23, 1893 at Töysä in Finland, was a Finnish-American editor, l...

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
184 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
17 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
14 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
11 cases
MDC BrooklynBrooklyn, New York
9 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
9 cases
Blackwell's Island PenitentiaryNew York, New York
8 cases