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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.
867Documented
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
867 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Mary Beatrice Belfrage
Released
Mary Beatrice Belfrage was arrested in 1953 for deportation over alleged Communist activity years earlier, in...
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Josephine Bell
Released
Poet and Masses contributor. Indicted in November 1917 along with editor Max Eastman, John Reed, and the staff...
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Judy Bello
Released
Judy Bello is a peace activist from Rochester, New York and member of Upstate Drone Action, a coalition that o...
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Leopold Bergman
Released
Leopold Bergman was a New York anarchist — very likely the Yiddish-language anarchist writer and editor of tha...
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Jacqueline Bernard
Released
Jacqueline Bernard, also reported as Jackie Bernard, was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister. She spent months i...
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Arnold Bernardini
Released
Arnold Bernardini was arrested for disorderly conduct while picketing in Brooklyn in November 1954 — one of th...
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Edilberto Berrio Ortiz
Released
Edilberto Berrio Ortiz, age 34, FARC 57th Front member; convicted at trial. 204 months federal prison + superv...
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Lee Berry
Released
Lee Berry was a Vietnam War veteran and Black Panther Party member who was hospitalized at Bronx Veterans Affa...
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Thomas Berry
Released
Thomas Berry was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy cas...
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Joseph Bevilacqua
Released
One of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on October 16, 1940, the...
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Hyman Bloch
Released
Hyman Bloch was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Leon Blum
Released
Leon Blum was secretary of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union in the Bronx, imprisoned at Great Meadow Priso...
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Herbert X. Blyden
Released
Herbert X. Blyden was one of the chief negotiators and spokesmen for the rebelling prisoners during the Septem...
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Herman Blyden
One of the 'Attica Brothers' rebellion leaders charged with kidnapping and murder of hostages during the 1971...
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Taras Bojarchuk
Released
Taras Bojarchuk was an ex-merchant-marine officer jailed for deportation over alleged Communist Party membersh...
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Wayne Bonekemper
Released
A Rochester, NY resident and one of the eight arrested Sept 6, 1970 for the draft-board and FBI-office raid. C...
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Donna Joan Borup
Donna Joan Borup was a member of the May 19th Communist Organization arrested at the September 26, 1981 anti-a...
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Andre Boutin
Released
Andre Boutin, of Onondaga County, New York, circulated the antiwar pamphlet "Pure Common Sense". The federal c...
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Harold Bowers
Released
Harold Bowers was a New York ILA longshore leader jailed for six months for contempt in 1954 over his role in...
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Pasquale Branca
Released
Pasquale Branca was a former teacher prosecuted for contempt for refusing to answer the House Un-American Acti...
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Gerard Anthony Brannigan
Released
Gerard Anthony Brannigan was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IR...
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Oscar E. Brex
Released
Oscar E. Brex was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Frederick Briehl
Released
Frederick "Fred" Briehl, of Brooklyn, New York, was a conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I at...
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William Brisbane
Released
William Brisbane was an Anti-Rent lecturer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersheriff Osman N...
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