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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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Lafi Khalil
Released
Lafi Khalil, 25, foreign national, was indicted August 28, 1997 with co-defendant Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer for a...
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Charles King
Released
Charles King, of Housing Works and formerly of ACT UP/New York's Housing Committee, was among AIDS-housing act...
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Darryl King
Black ex-serviceman arrested in 1970 and convicted of killing a New York policeman during a robbery, sentenced...
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T. R. Kinget
Released
Dr. T. R. Kinget was a physician prosecuted under the Comstock laws in the late 1880s for selling his book "Me...
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Kwando Kinshasa
Released
Kwando Kinshasa, born William King, was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Pa...
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Glenn Kissack
Released
Glenn Kissack was a Stony Brook student jailed after intervening in the arrest of campus activist Mitch Cohen.
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Myer Klig
Released
Myer Klig was a leader of the International Fur & Leather Workers Union targeted for deportation during the Mc...
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Lewis Knapp
Released
Lewis Knapp was one of the first Anti-Rent prisoners, prosecuted under New York's new law against appearing ar...
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Gerald Koch
Released
New York City anarchist and grand jury resister, commonly known as Jerry Koch, who was jailed for civil contem...
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Jerry Koch
Released
New York anarchist and grand jury resister jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify before a federa...
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L. Kramer
Released
L. Kramer, from New York, New York, was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act. Kramer w...
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Peter Kraus
Released
Peter Kraus was a Communist Party organizer at Utica, sentenced to one and a half to three years at Auburn Sta...
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Ignatz Kriva
Released
Ignatz Kriva was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
G
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze was a German American Bund official who succeeded Fritz Kuhn as the organization’s natio...
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Sam Kurland
Released
Sam Kurland was a needle-trades labour activist. "Samuel" is not independently documented. A contemporary lab...
C
Christine La Bastille
Released
Christine La Bastille was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university...
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Thomas Laffey
Released
Thomas Laffey was one of the Fort Worth Five, five Irish-American men jailed in Texas in 1972 for refusing to...
A
August Wilhelm Lahtinen
Released
August Wilhelm Lahtinen was a Finnish-born New York newspaperman, in the United States since 1914, against who...
I
Ignatz L. Lahuta
Released
Ignatz L. Lahuta was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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John Lathan
Released
John Lathan was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersh...
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Robert Lealess
Released
Robert Lealess was a member of the delegation of the unemployed that went to the New York City Board of Estima...
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Harry Lee
Released
Harry Lee was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
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David Leff
Released
David Leff was a UNESCO employee whose passport was seized over a U.S. loyalty inquiry. A bench warrant was is...
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Anna Leisman
Released
Anna Leisman, a member of the Communist Party, served a sentence in the New York Women's Prison at Auburn. She...

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