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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.
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Ignatz Mizher
Released
Ignatz Mizher, a member of the Communist Party from New York City, served a sentence in Sing Sing and was late...
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Patrick Moley
Released
Patrick Moley was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IRA. He was h...
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Elsie Monakian
Released
Elsie Monakian was dragged from her bed and jailed at 1 a.m. by police, and was a striker with Local 1250 of t...
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Pedro Mario Monges
Pedro Mario Monges, also known as Chango Caribe and Chango Monges, was associated with the Black Liberation Ar...
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Isma-El Rahim
Released
New Afrikan political prisoner held at Auburn Correctional Facility in New York. Listed as a North American po...
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Donnell Moore
Former Black Panther Party member and UC Berkeley student who spent about four months in New York's Rikers Isl...
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Paschal Morahan
Released
Paschal Morahan was one of the Fort Worth Five, five Irish-American men jailed in Texas in 1972 for refusing t...
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John Morgan
Released
John Morgan, an organizer for the Marine Workers' League, served a six-month term on New York's Welfare Island...
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Martin Moriarty
Released
Martin Moriarty was one of four members of the Irish Workers' Club in the Bronx, New York arrested defending a...
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Anne Morrissett
Released
Anne Morrissett was among the 26 protesters arrested at City Hall Park in New York on May 3, 1960 for refusing...
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Felix Morrow
Released
Trotskyist editor and theoretician. Edited the SWP's newspaper The Militant and its theoretical journal Fourth...
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Jane Moses
Released
Jane Moses was a young pacifist arrested with her husband Richard in Times Square during New York City's July...
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Richard Moses
Released
Richard Moses was a young pacifist arrested in Times Square carrying anti-war signs during New York City's Jul...
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Petros Moutsos
Released
Petros Moutsos was a young Greek seaman and member of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions (outlawed in Gre...
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Deane Mowrer
Released
Deane Mowrer was an associate editor of the Catholic Worker, one of ten pacifists jailed in July 1957 for refu...
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Eugene Moy
Released
Eugene Moy was the editor of the New York China Daily News, a Chinese-American paper sympathetic to the new Pe...
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John Mullally
Released
John Mullally was one of four members of the Irish Workers' Club in the Bronx, New York arrested defending aga...
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Alfred J. Mungo
Released
Alfred J. Mungo was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Edward Murphy
Released
Jesuit priest and NYC native, age 34 at indictment; entered the Society of Jesus in 1955, ordained 1968, taugh...
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Harry Murray
Released
Harry Murray was a peace activist whose oral history describes custody following antiwar protests in New York,...
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Yusuf A. Mussadiq
Released
Yusuf A. Mussadiq was one of the four young Sunni Muslim men known as the Williamsburg Four. On January 18, 19...
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Twymon Ford Myers
Twymon Ford Myers was a Black Liberation Army member from New York sought in connection with police shootings,...
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Ramanan Mylvaganam
Released
Ramanan Mylvaganam helped to procure weapons and supplies for the Tamil Tigers.
Case characteristics: FBI sti...
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Piratheepan Nadarajah
Released
Piratheepan Nadarajah conspired with an undercover FBI agent to purchase $1 million worth of weapons for the T...
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