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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.
Omowale Clay
Released
Black liberation organizer and longtime co-founder of the December 12th Movement, charged as a New York 8+ def...
Moana Cole
Released
Moana Cole is a New Zealand peace activist and one of the four Catholic Worker members of the ANZUS (Australia...
Rosa Cortez Collazo
Released
Puerto Rican independence activist and wife of Oscar Collazo, one of the two Puerto Rican Nationalist Party me...
Robert Collier
Released
Robert Steele Collier was a longtime Harlem-based revolutionary and one of the New York Panther 21. He had bee...
Tom Cornell
Released
Thomas Charles Cornell was an American pacifist organizer, ordained Catholic deacon, longtime member of the Ca...
Ida Craddock
Released
Ida C. Craddock was an American sex educator, freethinker, and advocate of marriage reform who wrote frank ins...
George Crockett
Released
George W. Crockett Jr. was one of the defense attorneys in the 1949 Foley Square Smith Act trial of the eleven...
James Cromitie
Released
James Cromitie was a Newburgh, New York Walmart employee and convicted petty criminal at the time he was appro...
María Cueto
Released
María Cueto was the director of the National Commission on Hispanic Affairs of the Episcopal Church and a well...
Leon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, was arrested on September 6, 1901 for assassinating President William McKinley in...
Bruce Dancis
Released
On December 14, 1966, 18-year-old Cornell University SDS activist Bruce Dancis tore his draft card into four p...
Benjamin J. Davis Jr.
Released
ONE OF TWELVE COMMUNISTS SENTENCED UNDER DENNIS V. UNITED STATES:
Bejamin J. Davis Jr., a chairman of the comm...
Deyanna Davis
Drove SUV into a state trooper during Buffalo protest (2020). Sentence: 30 months state prison. Verified via p...
Dorothy Day
Released
Dorothy Day was a journalist, organizer, and the co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker Movemen...
Giovanni De Cecca
Released
Giovanni De Cecca Italian-American Bible Student responsible for foreign-language distribution of Watch Tower...
Peter DeMott
Released
Peter DeMott was a Catholic Worker, Vietnam War veteran, and prolific Plowshares activist. In December 1980, j...
Floyd Dell
Released
Greenwich Village novelist, Chicago Renaissance critic, and managing editor of The Masses (1914-17). Indicted...
Eugene Dennis
Released
Eugene Dennis was the General Secretary of the Communist Party USA. In 1947 he refused to appear before the Ho...
Dr. Rafil Dhafir
Released
Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir was an American Iraqi-born physician, who founded the charity Help the Needy, to respond t...
Andrew Dmytryshyn
Released
Andrew Dmytryshyn was a leader of the Ukrainian American Fraternal Union, a section of the International Worke...
Joseph Patrick Doherty
Released
Provisional IRA volunteer born January 20, 1955 in the New Lodge area of Belfast. Interned without charge at a...
Jack Donald
Released
Jack Donald was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unemp...
Steven Donziger
Released
Steven Robert Donziger is an American environmental and human-rights lawyer who represented Indigenous peoples...
Mackenzie Drechsler
Released
Mackenzie Drechsler, 19, of Ontario NY, charged June 30, 2020 with arson for the May 30, 2020 burning of two v...
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