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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.
2,076Documented
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
Recent dashboard entries from New York
The newest published events and reporting located in New York, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Hundreds rally against ICE in Herald Square after Marble Hill shooting
Arrest
Five protesters arrested outside hospital after New York ICE shooting
Other
ICE officer shoots man during New York arrest operation
Other
Federal judge blocks ICE from arrests in New York courthouses
Arrest
Anti-Zionist Hasidic man faces deportation to Israel after US protest arrest
Arrest
Eight people arrested during an Evict ICE demonstration in downtown Buffalo
Arrest
NYPD arrests 104 people during protests against Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance at the United Nations
Other
Court imposes permanent protections against abusive ICE detention conditions at 26 Federal Plaza
Documented cases
2,076 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer
In Custody
Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, 25, Palestinian foreign national, was indicted August 28, 1997 for plotting to detonat...
Monzer Al Kassar
In Custody
Monzer Al Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, age 63, was caught in a 2007 sting by DEA agents posing as FARC rebels...
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi
In Custody
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi was transferred into United States custody and arrested on May 15, 2026. F...
Cliver Antonio Alcala Cordero
In Custody
Cliver Antonio Alcala Cordero, retired Venezuelan major general, was charged March 26, 2020 in SDNY with narco...
Mufid Fawaz Alkhader
In Custody
Mufid Fawaz Alkhader, a United States citizen born in Iraq and living in Schenectady, New York, was 28 when he...
Jessica Bowie
In Custody
Jessica Bowie was arrested on August 19, 2026 after taking possession of what she believed was an explosive de...
Grailing Brown
In Custody
Kojo Bomani Sababu, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army. He was arrested during an attempted bank...
Hugo Carvajal
In Custody
Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, former director of Venezuelan military intelligence under Hugo Chavez, was char...
Alexander Stokes Contompasis
In Custody
Alex Stokes Contompasis was a journalist and artist from Albany, New York. Since 2014, Contompasis was a frequ...
Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier
In Custody
Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, a 55-year-old dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced August 17, 20...
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro
In Custody
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, attorney and former Venezuelan National Assembly president, is the wife of ex-pr...
John J. Ford
In Custody
John J. Ford, age 47, was president of the Long Island UFO Network. He and two co-conspirators were arrested i...
Eric Hafner
In Custody
Eric G. Hafner (born 1991, New Jersey) is a perennial political candidate serving a twenty-year federal senten...
Faouzi Jaber
In Custody
Faouzi Jaber, an Ivorian national, was arrested in Prague on April 5, 2014 in a DEA operation involving inform...
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan
In Custody
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan was arrested in Canada on September 4, 2024 while allegedly traveling toward the United...
Luigi Mangione
In Custody
Luigi Mangione, 26 at the time of his arrest and originally of Maryland, is accused of fatally shooting United...
Mansuri Manuchekhri
In Custody
Mansuri Manuchekhri was arrested in Brooklyn on February 26, 2025. Federal prosecutors allege that he facilita...
Hadi Matar
In Custody
Hadi Matar was arrested on August 12, 2022 after stabbing author Salman Rushdie onstage at the Chautauqua Inst...
Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy
In Custody
Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, a Chilean national age 60, was Monzer Al Kassars associate in the 2007 DEA-FARC arms...
Nicolas Maduro Moros
In Custody
Nicolás Maduro Moros (born November 23, 1962, in Caracas) is the de facto president of Venezuela. A former Car...
Karrem Nasr
In Custody
Karrem Nasr, 23, of New Jersey, was charged in late December 2023 by SDNY with attempting to join and provide...
Joseph Neumeyer
In Custody
Joseph Neumeyer was arrested in Israel on May 19, 2025 after prosecutors alleged that he brought a backpack co...
Yehonatan Ovadia
In Custody
Yehonatan Ovadia is an Israeli-born Satmar Hasidic religious teacher and father of five who moved to the Unite...
Dwight Parker
In Custody
Dwight Parker is a Troy, New York man convicted by jury and sentenced to prison for throwing Molotov cocktails...
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