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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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Sam Grossman
Sam Grossman was a garment worker prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The January 29, 1927 Dai...
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Samuel Groushak
Samuel Groushak was a young worker arrested in the Bronx on Wednesday, October 5, 1932 for participating in a...
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Caesar Sartiano Grugnola
Caesar Sartiano Grugnola was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Sophie Grunin
Released
Sophie Grunin was a Fordham Workers Alliance member arrested at a Bronx Home Relief Bureau during an unemploye...
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Charles Guardino
Released
Charles Guardino was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and Allan...
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Johann H. Guenther
Johann H. Guenther was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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Ubaldo Guido-Buttrini
Ubaldo Guido-Buttrini was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
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Jennie Guter
Jennie Guter was named among dress-strike pickets arrested in connection with the Jerry Dress injunction in Ne...
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T. H. Li
T. H. Li was a Chinese student held by US immigration authorities for deportation to China. A page headed May...
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Louis Haas
Louis Haas was the Westchester County secretary of the Communist Party and an Assembly candidate arrested at M...
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William Haas
William Haas was a seamen’s-strike prisoner held in Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn. The June 3, 1936 Daily Work...
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Wladislaw Haberski
Wladislaw Haberski, also printed as Franciszek Haberski, was arrested in the Buffalo deportation investigation...
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Helene Sophie K. Hackenberg
Helene Sophie K. Hackenberg was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbo...
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Thoams Hagen (Attica defendant)
Thoams Hagen is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Michael Hagopa
Released
Michael Hagopa was an unemployed Armenian member of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. E. Lansky’s le...
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Mujahid Abdul Halim
Mujahid Abdul Halim, also known as Talmadge Hayer and Thomas Hagan, admitted taking part in the assassination...
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Anna Hall (Brooklyn relief protest, 1933)
The report names Anna Hall as a worker arrested at a Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau demonstration and facing pros...
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Otto Hall
Otto Hall was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buffalo...
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Albert Halper
Albert Halper is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arre...
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Phillip Hamlock
Phillip Hamlock was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s...
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Erich Walter Hamm
Erich Walter Hamm was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Bif Hanlon (Long Beach anti-war leafleter)
The paper prints the name as Bif Hanlon in reporting his arrest for distributing leaflets announcing the Ameri...
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Charles Hanson
Charles Hanson was one of six defendants prosecuted for picketing the Empire Cafeteria at 125th Street and Len...
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Walter John Hanson
Walter John Hanson was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...

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