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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.
Michelle Duclos
Released
Michelle Duclos was a Montreal broadcaster and freelance writer associated with the Quebec independence moveme...
Anne Dunham
Released
Age 23 at indictment; native of Pelham, NY, graduate of Ursuline Academy who attended Marymount College and th...
William F. Dunne
Released
William F. Dunne was a veteran labor journalist and editor of the Daily Worker and a founding member of the Am...
Max Eastman
Released
Max Eastman was a poet, journalist, and the editor of The Masses, the radical New York socialist literary maga...
Becky Edelsohn
Released
Becky Edelsohn (born Rebecca Edelsohn) was an American anarchist agitator. Born in 1892 in Riga in the Russian...
David Eichel
Released
David Eichel was a Jewish socialist absolutist from New York's Lower East Side, one of three Eichel brothers w...
Julius Eichel
Released
Julius Eichel, David's brother, was a Jewish socialist absolutist imprisoned during World War I after refusing...
Gerhart Eisler
In Exile
Gerhart Eisler was a German-born Communist and former Comintern functionary whom the House Un-American Activit...
Harry Eisman
Released
Harry Eduardovich Eisman, born in Kishinev (Chisinau), then in the Russian Empire, was a Bronx schoolboy and Y...
Roberto Elia
Released
Roberto Elia was an Italian anarchist printer arrested in New York in early 1920 during the Palmer Raids and h...
Desmond Ellis
Released
Desmond Ellis, also known as Dessie Ellis, was detained by US authorities after attempting to enter from Canad...
Eddie Ellis
Released
Edwin "Eddie" Ellis was a former Black Panther who was targeted as part of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Prog...
Julius Emspak
Released
Founding General Secretary-Treasurer of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) 1936-...
Lonnie Epps
Released
Lonnie Epps was a teenage Black Panther Party member at the time of the April 2, 1969 Panther 21 raids. He was...
Bill Epton
Released
Bill Epton was a Harlem-born radical organizer associated with Maoist politics and leadership in the Progressi...
Linda Evans
Released
Linda Sue Evans became politicized through 1960s antiwar organizing, including activity linked to Michigan Sta...
Juan Farinas
Released
Juan Pedro Farinas was a Cuban-born member of the Trotskyist Workers League who became a Vietnam-era anti-war...
Howard Fast
Released
Howard Fast, the best-selling novelist (author of “Citizen Tom Paine” and “Freedom Road”) and a member of the...
Herman Ferguson
Released
Herman Ferguson was a New York City public-school principal, a co-founder of the Organization of Afro-American...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Released
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, a wealthy heir who broke with his class to become a radical, was a trustee of the...
Abraham Flaxer
Released
Abraham Flaxer was the president of the United Public Workers union, convicted of contempt of Congress for ref...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Released
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most consequential American radicals of the twentieth century. As a teen...
James W. Ford
Released
African-American Communist Party USA organizer and the first Black candidate for U.S. Vice President (CPUSA ti...
Joudon M. Ford
Released
Joudon M. Ford was a New York Black Panther leader and later a City College student newspaper editor, banker 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
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