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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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Jose Santiago
Released
Jose Santiago was a Puerto Rican independence activist, former Communist and leader of the Provisional Organiz...
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John Santo
Released
John Santo, also known as János Szántó and Desideriu Hammer, was a Romanian-born organizer for New York’s Tran...
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Ludwig Sardruk
Released
Ludwig Sardruk was a Russian noncitizen from Brooklyn recorded in the Swarthmore/Yoder conscientious-objector...
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Ted Sason
Ted Sason was a Fur Floor Boys Union member arrested after a reported attack while checking overtime in New Yo...
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Otto Heinrich Gustav Sass
Otto Heinrich Gustav Sass was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Maria Sauer
Maria Sauer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 2...
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Walter Saupe
Pages 4–5 identify Walter Saupe, nineteen, an anti-Nazi refugee who left the Reliance in New York harbor in Oc...
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Henry Sazer
Henry Sazer was arrested while sympathetically picketing the Truefood Restaurant owned by his brother, despite...
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Jack Scaglione
Jack Scaglione was a Durable Tool and Die shop striker in New York. The February 25, 1932 Daily Worker reports...
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Salvatore Scata
Salvatore Scata was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing of...
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Joseph Schact
Joseph Schact was individually named among Ansonia Bootery shoe-salesmen's strike pickets arrested in New York...
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Israel Schaobers
Released
Israel Schaobers was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting th...
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Arthur Scharfman
Arthur Scharfman was a young worker arrested in the Bronx on Wednesday, October 5, 1932 for participating in a...
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Albert Schayer
Released
Albert Schayer was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and Allan S...
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Hannah Scherer
Released
Hannah Scherer was among seven workers arrested when police broke up a Communist election-campaign meeting in...
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Lena Davis Scherer
Released
Lena Davis Scherer was a Russian-born New York resident married to labor organizer Marcel Scherer. Immigration...
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Jonas Schiffman
Jonas Schiffman, reported aged 18 and a Young Workers League member, was arrested June 15, 1928, during City C...
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Aaron Schlossberg
Aaron Schlossberg was arrested at an anti-Nazi demonstration in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of April...
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Martin Kurt Schluckwerder
Martin Kurt Schluckwerder was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Abraham Schmetterling
Abraham Schmetterling was a Bronx grocery-union picket whom the August 15, 1928 Daily Worker individually name...
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Philip Werner R. Schmitt
Philip Werner R. Schmitt was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Max Schnapp
Borough Park Unemployed Council leader and Communist Assembly candidate Max Schnapp had just finished his jail...
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Willy Joseph Schnellinger
Willy Joseph Schnellinger was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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William Schnoor
William Schnoor was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...

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 CenterNew York, New York
10 cases
MDC BrooklynBrooklyn, New York
9 cases