Skip to content
Learn More → State by State

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.

R
Raymond Sumter
Released
One of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping/unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 1971 rebellion were dropp...
T
Tom Sung
Released
Tom Sung was a Chinese-American prosecuted in New York in 1954 under the Trading With the Enemy Act for sendin...
S
Sam Suskin
The November 21 report names him as a defendant in the prosecution over policeman R. P. Smith’s death at Seven...
H
Herbert Sussbach
Herbert Sussbach was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
A
Alice J. Swartz
Released
Alice J. Swartz was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
P
Patricia Swinton
Released
Patricia "Pat" Swinton was a New Left radical charged in connection with a wave of bombings of corporate and g...
S
Samuel Sánchez
Released
Samuel Sánchez, a 28-year-old mental-health worker, was held in civil contempt on January 24, 1989 by Judge Eu...
L
Leon Taback
Leon Taback was a New York worker arrested after a delegation from the Allerton Avenue Unemployed Neighborhood...
L
Leon Tabeck
Named as arrested at a Bronx Home Relief Bureau demonstration and facing prosecution. No exact arrest or disch...
J
Jessie Taft
Jessie Taft was a Young Pioneer organizer seized during the May 18, 1929 demonstration against police brutalit...
Y
Yasein Taher
Yasein Taher was identified among the Lackawanna Six in FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statemen...
H
Hanjiro San Takeuchi
Hanjiro San Takeuchi was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
S
Sam Taplitsky
Sam Taplitsky was named in a report of arrests during the Remington-Rand strike at Tonawanda. The paper report...
M
Manuel Tarazona
Released
Manuel Tarazona was one of the 39 foreign-born radicals re-arrested when the Civil Rights Congress bail fund w...
D
Doretta Tarmon
Doretta Tarmon was a Brooklyn mother of two arrested during the May 1933 campaign by unemployed workers for re...
J
John Taylor (New York cafeteria striker)
A bus boy and waiter prosecuted repeatedly for picketing in the 1929 New York cafeteria strike. Pages 1–2 prin...
M
Merjella Taylor
Released
Merjella Taylor was a Black woman arrested while supporting the National Shoe strike at 114 West 125th Street...
M
Marthe Teichman
Marthe Teichman was the Communist candidate opposing Representative O’Connor in New York’s Sixteenth Congressi...
H
Henry Tense
Henry Tense was arrested June 16, 1933 at Coney Island beach after protesting police beating a peddler. The Da...
A
Alfred Terry
Alfred Terry was a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 in New York. The Daily Wo...
E
Erwin Tewelcit
Erwin Tewelcit was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
T
Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam
Released
Sahilal Sarachandran, Nadarasa Yogarasa, Sathajhan Sarachandran, and Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam were involved...
P
Pratheepan Thavaraja
Released
Pratheepan Thavaraja, Nachimuthu Socrates, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, Vijayshanthar Patpanathan, Gaspar Raj Mar...
M
M. Theos
M. Theos was arrested in New York while distributing shop papers and leaflets calling for the August 1, 1930 a...

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