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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.

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.

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Peter Masukas
Released
Peter Masukas was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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David Mathews
Released
David Mathews was the loyalist Mayor of New York City. In June 1776 he was arrested and accused of involvement...
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Henry Matthews
Henry Matthews, who used the alias Massio, was a 17-year-old convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death...
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Joseph Mazzuchelli
Released
Joseph Mazzuchelli, age 42, was a co-conspirator with John Ford and Edward Zabo in a 1996 plot to use radium-l...
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Louis McCabe
Released
Louis McCabe was one of the five defense lawyers for the eleven Communist leaders tried at the 1949 Foley Squa...
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Jakhi McCray
Jakhi McCray (also recorded as Jakhi Lodgson-McCray), a young activist from Brooklyn, was charged in the U.S....
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Charles T. McCumber
Released
Charles T. McCumber was a New York Anti-Renter convicted of second-degree robbery and sentenced to seven years...
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Dyshika McFadden
Released
Dyshika McFadden, Miguel Ramos, and Tindal are accused of using an aerosol can and open flame to set fire to a...
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Jared McIntyre
Released
Jared McIntyre, age 17, pleaded guilty in 2001 to one count of arson conspiracy related to ELF-claimed fires s...
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Malcom B. McJannet
Released
Malcom B. McJannet was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World W...
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Bernard J. McKeon
Released
Bernard McKeon, known as Barney, was a Leitrim-born building contractor and Irish-American activist. He was ja...
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Hugh McKiernan
Released
Hugh McKiernan was one of four members of the Irish Workers' Club in the Bronx, New York arrested defending ag...
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A. H. McMillan
Released
A. H. McMillan, from Brooklyn, New York, began serving a twenty-year prison sentence on June 21, 1918. He was...
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John McNeil
Released
John McNeil was a Black worker of Harlem, New York framed in a 1937 case the ILD took up.
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Murray Melvin
Released
Murray Melvin was a twenty-four-year-old vice-president of the Allied Printing Helpers' Union in New York, fra...
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Fred Merchawk
Released
Fred Merchawk was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Ignatz Mezei
Released
Ignatz Mezei was a Buffalo carpenter and officer of the International Workers Order’s Hungarian lodge. After r...
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Sam Milgrom
Released
Sam Milgrom was the national executive secretary of the International Workers Order. During the campaign to de...
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David J. Miller
Released
David J. Miller was a 24-year-old Catholic Worker pacifist and the first person prosecuted under the August 19...
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Jacob Miller
Released
Jacob Miller was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Leonard Miller
Released
Leonard Miller was a needle-trades worker arrested on a New York picket line during the 1932 garment strike an...
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May Miller
Released
May Miller was a young Communist arrested in New York City in 1930 for distributing anti-militarist leaflets t...
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Chin Hong Ming
Released
Chin Hong Ming was a Chinese-American convicted in federal court in New York in 1954 under the Trading With th...
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Aaron Minter
Released
Aaron Minter, an Occupy Wall Street organizer who frequently went by the alias Aaron Black, was sentenced to 1...

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