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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.

2,078Documented
40In custody
1,023Released
12Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 714 1940s 176 1970s 171 1920s 166 1910s 166 1950s 159

Documented cases

2,078 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Lloyd Barenblatt
Released
Lloyd Barenblatt was a psychology instructor at Vassar College who in June 1954 was subpoenaed by the House Un...
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Arthur Majid Barnes
Released
Arthur Majid Barnes, also reported as Arthur Majeed Barnes, was a member of the Black Men’s Movement Against C...
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Charles Barnett
Named as Charles Barnett in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the gr...
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Helen Barno
Released
Helen Barno was a picket arrested when police broke the textile-trimmers’ picket line at the LouisHornickCompa...
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William Barnshal
William Barnshal was a seaman arrested after a confrontation at the Seamen’s Institute in New York in late Jul...
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Harold Baron
Harold Baron was a member of the Young Communist League arrested on Sunday, February 16, 1936, outside St. Seb...
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Gearge Barron
Gearge Barron was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buff...
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Arthur Barry
Arthur Barry was one of six pickets arrested September 12, 1935 outside Bickford’s restaurant, 215 West Forty-...
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Phil Bart
Released
Phil Bart was a former general manager of the Daily Worker who was convicted of contempt of Congress after ref...
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Joseph Baskerville
Joseph Baskerville was a seventeen-year-old Black Panther reportedly handcuffed, beaten and taken away by poli...
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Scott L. Bassoff
Released
Scott L. Bassoff was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
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Fletcher Bay
Fletcher Bay was a Black man reported killed during police questioning in the Brooklyn Hammer Man investigatio...
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Adolph Bayer
Released
Adolph Bayer was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting the Ed...
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Carlos Bayon
Released
Carlos Bayon was a Grand Island, New York resident arrested on August 1, 2018 after leaving threatening voicem...
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Jane Be
Jane Be was individually named among women arrested at Seneca Army Depot during August 1984. The report expres...
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Frieda Meta Becker
Frieda Meta Becker was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New Yo...
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Morris Becker
Released
Morris Becker was an anarchist and a vegetarian from New York, New York. Morris Becker was sentenced to a year...
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Frederick Beijerbach
Released
Frederick Beijerbach was a baker and member of the Heidelberg Bakers’ Union who fled Nazi Germany in June 1934...
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John J. Belford
Released
John J. Belford was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Mary Beatrice Belfrage
Released
Mary Beatrice Belfrage was a British journalist and former wife of National Guardian editor Cedric Belfrage. I...
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John Bell (Ellis Island deportee, 1933)
The June 5, 1933 issue prints an Ellis Island prisoners’ letter opposing deportation, individually signed by t...
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Josephine Bell
Released
Josephine Bell was a Poet and Masses contributor. Indicted in November 1917 along with editor Max Eastman, Joh...
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D. Benjamin (Wall Street protest defendant, 1928)
D.Benjamin was arrested at the July3,1928 WallStreet anti-imperialist demonstration. MagistrateSimpson dismiss...
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D. Benjamin (Wall Street protest, 1928)
The July 3 dispatch, continued on page 2, named these participants among those arrested in the Wall Street ant...

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
215 cases
Fort LafayetteNew York, New York
202 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
21 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
20 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
15 cases
Ellis IslandNew York, New York
15 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
10 cases