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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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Lewis Knapp
Released
Lewis Knapp was one of the first Anti-Rent prisoners, prosecuted under New York's new law against appearing ar...
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Neil Knox
Named by a retrospective New York State report as a BLA associate actually arrested in the December 1973 alleg...
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Frederick Max Koal
Frederick Max Koal was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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A. Kobel
Released
A. Kobel edited Uus Ilm, an Estonian Communist weekly in the United States. The Daily Worker of March 1, 1928,...
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Hermann Klaus Koch
Hermann Klaus Koch was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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Konrad Koehler
Konrad Koehler was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Ben Koenigsberg
Ben Koenigsberg faced a felonious-assault accusation arising from picketing at 370 West 36th Street. The Febru...
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Julia Church Kolar
First-person account of arrest with Jane Craik Speed on September 7, 1935, after protesting Mussolini’s invasi...
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Oscar Kolkin
Oscar Kolkin was arrested at a 27 West 24th Street picket on disorderly-conduct and weapon accusations. The re...
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Milton Kolman
Milton Kolman was a labor activist prosecuted in New York. The June 4, 1930 Daily Worker reports that he had b...
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Edward Kowalczyk (Attica prisoner)
The March 1973 Attica News individually names Edward Kowalczyk among five prisoners in Attica HBZ or A-block s...
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Rudi Kraemer
Rudi Kraemer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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L. Kramer
Released
L. Kramer was from New York, New York. L. Kramer was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service...
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David Krasny
David Krasny, treasurer of the May’s department-store workers’ union in Brooklyn, was named with Clarina M...
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Peter Kraus
Released
Peter Kraus was a Communist Party organizer at Utica, sentenced to one and a half to three years at Auburn Sta...
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Victor Kremer
Victor Kremer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Ignatz Kriva
Released
Ignatz Kriva was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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F. Kromotis
F. Kromotis was a needle-trades worker individually identified in the June 8, 1927 Daily Worker’s report of ar...
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Joseph Kruch
Released
Joseph Kruch was one of five Ohrbach department-store pickets arrested in New York on Saturday, April 4, 1936....
A
Abraham Kublin
Abraham Kublin was a sales worker and Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Local 1268 strike picket at the Kitty Kelly shoe-...
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Richard Kuhland
Richard Kuhland was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...
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Sam Kurland
Released
Sam Kurland was a needle-trades labour activist. "Samuel" is not independently documented. A contemporary lab...
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Steve Kurtz
Released
Steve Kurtz, a University at Buffalo artist and Critical Art Ensemble cofounder, was detained by FBI agents in...
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Louis Kushman
Louis Kushman was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buff...

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