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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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Vincent Cantone
Released
Vincent Cantone was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and Allan...
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Ignacio Capuani
Ignacio Capuani was an organizer of unemployed workers in Westchester County, New York. The Daily Worker of De...
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Elaine Carberry
Released
Elaine Carberry, 36, with Corey Smith set fire to an NYPD Homeless Outreach van on July 15, 2020 in NYC. Charg...
B
Bill Carini
Bill Carini was taken to a police station after an October 22, 2025 Palestine-solidarity congressional-office...
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Hermann Albert Carle
Hermann Albert Carle was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New...
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Mathilda Carman
Released
Mathilda Carman was a New York City Department of Welfare case worker convicted of perjury in November 1957 fo...
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Sam Carmen
Sam Carmen was arrested among ten pickets outside May’s Department Store at 510 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, on Sa...
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Jack Carney
Released
Jack Carney was a class-war prisoner (No. 59755) writing to the ILD from Welfare Island, New York in 1935. Th...
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Frank Carone
Released
Frank Carone was an unemployed Italian worker in Utica, New York who had lost an arm. He was prosecuted with P...
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Ralph Carpenter
Ralph Carpenter was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Bu...
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Walter Carpenter
Jorge’s page 4 column identifies unemployed twenty-year-old Walter Carpenter as sentenced by Judge Weil to six...
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Esther Carroll
Released
Esther Carroll was among seven workers arrested when police broke up a Communist election-campaign meeting in...
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Lateefah Carter
Released
Black liberation activist Ruth (Lateefah) Carter was a New York 8+ defendant arrested in the October 18, 1984...
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Conor Cash
The FBI’s 2000–2001 report records Conor Cash’s February 14, 2001 indictment in the Long Island environmental-...
J
Joe Casta
Joe Casta was charged with assaulting a policeman on a May’s Department Store picket line on Washington’s Birt...
B
Bruno Catalani
Bruno Catalani was individually named among Ellis Island detainees in a signed letter published by the Daily W...
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Marinu Cercelam
Released
Marinu Cercelam was a Romanian immigrant arrested without a warrant and held for deportation in February 1936,...
M
Mike Charles
Released
Mike Charles was one of five unemployed workers prosecuted after a relief demonstration in Utica, New York. Th...
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Tony Chiami
Tony Chiami was named among workers facing court proceedings in the grocery-strike report published May 24, 19...
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Kevin Chianella
Released
Kevin Chianella is a U.S. anarchist who participated in the June 26, 2010 protests against the G20 summit in T...
R
Rose Chinitz
Page 5 individually names Rose Chinitz among eleven pickets arrested the previous morning, December 27, 1929,...
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Nick Chitila
Nick Chitila was named among workers facing court proceedings in the grocery-strike report published May 24, 1...
C
Chester Chore
Chester Chore was arrested outside Ohrbach's department store at Union Square, New York, during the May 16, 19...
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Aaron Chorover
The July 22 issue reports arrest at the Friday July 19, 1929 demonstration outside the Nanking consulate, 13 A...

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