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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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Otto Nathan
Released
Dr. Otto Nathan was an economist and the executor of Albert Einstein's estate, cited for contempt of Congress...
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Raisa Nemikin
Released
Staff member of the Episcopal Church's National Commission on Hispanic Affairs jailed in 1977 alongside Maria...
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Sam Nessin
Released
Sam Nessin was a member of the delegation of the unemployed that went to the New York City Board of Estimate o...
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Trofin Nicolaieff
Released
Trofin Nicolaieff was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Daniel Northrup
Released
Daniel Northrup was a Delaware County, New York tenant farmer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of U...
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Raymond A. Northrup
Released
Raymond A. Northrup was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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John Noto
Released
John Noto was a Buffalo Communist Party leader arrested on August 31, 1955 under a 1954 sealed indictment char...
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Harvey O'Connor
Released
Harvey O'Connor (March 29, 1897 – August 29, 1987) was a labor journalist and author, born in Minneapolis and...
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Michael O'Rourke
Released
Michael O'Rourke was an Irish republican who sought to remain in the United States after escaping from impriso...
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Baba Odinga
Released
Baba Odinga was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy case...
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Roque Orobio Lobon
Released
Roque Orobio Lobon, age 46, FARC 57th Front member; pleaded guilty to hostage taking. 60 months federal prison...
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William Ortiz
One of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping and unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 1971 rebellion were d...
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William O’Neill
Released
William O’Neill was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to I...
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Alejandro Palacios Rengifo
Released
Alejandro Palacios Rengifo, age 32, FARC 57th Front member; convicted at trial. 180 months federal prison + su...
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Michael Palumbo
Released
Michael Palumbo was an anti-fascist arrested with Athos Terzani and framed in connection with the shooting at...
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Frank Panopoulos
Released
Frank Panopoulos has worked on peace and social justice issues since 1979. During the 1980s he lived in the Co...
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Milton Parish
Released
Milton Parish, also reported as Milton Parrish, was a writer jailed for refusing grand-jury testimony in the N...
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Polychronis Paschalidis
Released
Polychronis 'Paul' Paschalidis was the New York secretary of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions, outlawed...
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Joseph Pass
Released
Joseph Pass, a writer from New York, New York, was arrested in New York City in October 1917 for " pro-peace "...
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Vijayshanthar Patpanathan
Released
Patpanathan, along with Nachimuthu Socrates, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian, Namasivaya Vi...
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Laguerre Payen
Released
Laguerre Payen was a Haitian-born Newburgh, New York resident with documented schizophrenia and severe cogniti...
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Seymour Peck
Released
Seymour Peck, an editor on the New York Times Sunday magazine, was one of six indicted for contempt of Congres...
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William Perl
Released
William Perl was a radical physicist indicted for perjury in connection with the Rosenberg atomic-espionage ca...
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Charles Pernasilice
Released
Catawba prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility at the time of the September 1971 uprising. Indicted with Joh...

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