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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.

Robert E. Edmondson
Released
Robert Edward Edmondson was a journalist and publisher of antisemitic pamphlets through the Edmondson Economic...
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 was a Jewish socialist absolutist imprisoned during World War I after refusing military service....
Hannah Einbinder
Hannah Einbinder was arrested at a September 24, 2026 sit-in near United Nations headquarters in New York City...
Gerhart Eisler
Released
Gerhart Eisler was a German-born Communist whom the House Un-American Activities Committee portrayed as the se...
Harry Eisman
Released
Harry Eisman was born in Kishinev (Chisinau), then in the Russian Empire. Harry Eisman was a Bronx schoolboy a...
Roberto Elia
Released
Roberto Elia was an Italian anarchist printer born in Catanzaro on July 29, 1871. Active as a socialist in Ita...
Desmond Ellis
Released
Desmond “Dessie” Ellis is an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician born in Ballymun, Dublin, on September...
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
Julius Emspak was the Founding General Secretary-Treasurer of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers...
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...
Judy Erickson
Released
Judy Erickson was a Patriot Party leader arrested with the organization’s national leadership in New York on F...
Esteban Quinones Escute
Released
Esteban Quinones Escute was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal ma...
Concepcion Estrada Correa
Released
Concepcion Estrada Correa was a seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican sentenced to death in New York after a felony-...
Linda Evans
Released
Linda Sue Evans was an antiwar and anti-imperialist organizer associated with Students for a Democratic Societ...
Mujahid Farid
Released
Mujahid Farid was a New Afrikan activist who spent 33 years in New York State prisons following a 1978 convict...
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...
Dianne Feeley
Released
Dianne Feeley participated in Catholic Worker antiwar actions before joining the Young Socialist Alliance in 1...
Irving Feiner
Released
Irving Feiner was a Syracuse University student arrested for a sidewalk speech publicizing a Young Progressive...
Ronald Felder
Released
One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...
Herman Ferguson
Released
Herman Ferguson was a New York City public-school principal, a co-founder of the Organization of Afro-American...
Antonio Fernandez
Released
Antonio Fernandez, known as King Tone, led the New York Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation and promoted comm...

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