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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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Ramsey Orta
Filmed the police killing of Eric Garner. A September 2019 rally announcement reproduced by Jericho reports a...
W
William Ortiz
Released
One of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping and unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 1971 rebellion were d...
J
James Osborne
Named as James Osborne in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the grou...
B
B. Osofsky
Released
B. Osofsky was arrested at 43rd Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn for distributing working-class literature...
G
Gunner Ostberg
Gunner Ostberg was a Scandinavian Workers Club member arrested at his job and taken to Ellis Island, according...
B
Barney Oster
Barney Oster was among five workers arrested when police attacked an Unemployment Councils delegation demandin...
J
Jose Antonio Otero Otero
Released
Jose Antonio Otero Otero was vice-president of the New York junta, editor of its newspaper, and the party’s mi...
M
Magnus Otterholm
Named as Magnus Otterholm in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the g...
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Ludwig Otto
Ludwig Otto was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 2...
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William Outlaw (Attica defendant)
William Outlaw is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendan...
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Daniel O’Hagan
In her obituary, Marcia O’Hagan recalled that Daniel was jailed twice alongside Dorothy Day for refusing compu...
W
William O’Neill
Released
William O’Neill was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to I...
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Pat O’Shay
Pat O’Shay was arrested among ten pickets outside May’s Department Store at 510 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, on Sa...
C
Charles P. Casey
Released
Charles P. Casey was an American able-bodied seaman arrested at Hamburg on April 10, 1936 after Hitler jokes a...
J
Joseph Pacheco
Released
Joseph Pacheco was secretary of the New Bedford branch of the International Labor Defense, a textile-strike co...
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Vincent Padula
Vincent Padula was a thirty-two-year-old Italian laborer whose deportation was stopped on Saturday, August 22,...
J
Jack Palisky
Jack Palisky was arrested May 26, 1934 during the relief demonstration at Commissioner Hodson’s office in New...
A
Andrew Papachut
Andrew Papachut was a New York cafeteria striker who chose commitment to the Tombs rather than paying a ten-do...
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Pappini (New York cafeteria picket, 1930)
Pappini was a New York cafeteria strike picket. The March 15, 1930 Daily Worker names three pickets held under...
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Wilbur Parhill
Wilbur Parhill was a local secretary of the Unemployed Council and a National Hunger March delegate involved i...
M
Milton Parish
Released
Milton Parish, also reported as Milton Parrish, was a writer jailed for refusing grand-jury testimony in the N...
S
Saul Parker
Printed page 2 reports thirty-three Workers Unemployed Union members were arrested during the Easter Sunday Fi...
R
Richard Parlen
A Black worker held in Bellevue Hospital’s prison ward after a racist mob attacked him at an East Side cafe wh...
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Nick Parras
The March 4, 1933 report says the Foltis-Fischer cafeteria picket at the Courtlandt Street store was arrested...

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