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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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Antiona Mandino
Antiona Mandino was a garment worker prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The January 29, 1927...
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Paul Manko
Released
Paul Manko was a member of the Communist Party from New York City. Paul Manko served a sentence in Sing Sing S...
V
Vito Marcantonio
Vito Marcantonio was arrested during the unemployed workers’ demonstration at Madison Square Park, New York, o...
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Lazarus Marcowitz
Released
Lazarus Marcowitz was from Brooklyn, New York. Lazarus Marcowitz was drafted in 1918 and imprisoned as a consc...
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Markowitz (Vanity Knitting Mills, 1931)
Markowitz was briefly arrested with knitgoods union organizer Rapoport at Vanity Knitting Mills, 140 West21st...
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Wallace Marks (Harlem Youth Federation defendant)
Wallace Marks was named among the Harlem Youth Federation five arrested May16,1968 and charged with conspiraci...
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Michael Marsell
Michael Marsell, a union mattress worker, was one of five defendants arrested in the William Intner Mattress C...
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James Marti (Ellis Island deportee, 1933)
The June 5, 1933 issue prints an Ellis Island prisoners’ letter opposing deportation, individually signed by t...
J
James Martin (New York relief delegate, 1936)
James Martin led a delegation of eleven unemployed workers arrested while seeking relief in New York. The July...
J
Joe Martin (Red Special detainee, 1919)
Named as Joe Martin in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group l...
W
William B. Martin
Released
William B. Martin was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
C
Carlos Martinez
Released
Carlos Martinez was jailed after protesting the film Under the Texas Moon in New York in July 1930. The Daily...
P
Pedro Martinez
Page 4 identifies Pedro Martinez as organizer of the Food Workers Industrial Union's cafeteria department. He...
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Victor Martinez
Released
Victor Martinez was a member of the Inmates Liberation Front, the organization that grew out of the 1970 rebel...
G
George Mashkow
Released
George Mashkow, age 17, pleaded guilty in 2001 to one count of arson conspiracy related to ELF-claimed fires a...
P
Peter Masukas
Released
Peter Masukas was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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David Mathews
Released
David Mathews was the loyalist Mayor of New York City. In June 1776 he was arrested and accused of involvement...
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Henry Matthews
Released
Henry Matthews, born Enrique Masseo, was an eighteen-year-old Puerto Rican sentenced to death in New York afte...
J
James Matthews (Welfare Island prisoner, 1933)
James Matthews was identified as the victim of a lynch murder on Welfare Island in the October 9, 1933 Daily W...
P
Peter Matusewitch
Released
Peter Matusewitch was a draft counselor and nonviolence trainer with the Quaker Project on Community Conflict....
A
Anna May
Anna May was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon acquitt...
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Jacob Friedrich Mayer
Jacob Friedrich Mayer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
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Wm. Mayers
Wm. Mayers was named as a Black worker arrested when New York police broke up a Harlem welcome demonstration f...
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Joseph Mazzuchelli
Released
Joseph Mazzuchelli, age 42, was a co-conspirator with John Ford and Edward Zabo in a 1996 plot to use radium-l...

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