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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
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
2,078 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Kate Gitlow
The July 4, 1928 front-page caption identified Rebecca Grecht, Robert Minor and Kate Gitlow among fourteen arr...
Richard Gladstein
Released
Richard Gladstein was one of the five defense lawyers for the eleven Communist leaders tried at the 1949 Foley...
John Theodore Glick
Released
John Theodore “Ted” Glick, born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, is an American antiwar, progressive and climate-j...
Ben Gold
Released
Ben Gold was born in Bessarabia and was the longtime Communist president of the International Fur and Leather...
Michael Gold
Michael Gold is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arres...
Emma Goldman
Released
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and orator who emigrated to the United States in 188...
Sam Gonshak
Released
Sam Gonshak was a New York organizer with the Unemployed Councils who resisted evictions and campaigned for re...
Mariano Gonzalez
Released
Mariano Gonzalez, identified as Dalou Asahi by the Attica Brothers Legal Defense, was an Attica prisoner and o...
Robert Good
Released
Age 22 at indictment; a former seminarian who studied five years with the Missionary Society of the Divine Wor...
David Gordon
Released
David Gordon was a Communist trade unionist, author, editor, and journalist. Born in Ukraine, he immigrated to...
Ellen Grady
Released
Ellen Grady, daughter of Camden 28 defendant John Grady and sister of Clare and Teresa Grady, was an aide to a...
Teresa Grady
Released
Teresa Grady is an Ithaca Catholic Worker and one of three Grady sisters (with Clare and Mary Anne) at the hea...
Mary Anne Grady-Flores
Released
Mary Anne Grady-Flores is an Ithaca Catholic Worker, photographer, and anti-drone activist. Police arrested he...
Marcus Graham
Released
Marcus Graham was an anarchist editor — of the Anarchist Soviet Bulletin (1919), later Free Society and The Ro...
Rebecca Grecht
Released
Rebecca Grecht was a Workers Party election campaign manager. Rebecca Grecht was arrested in the July 3, 1928...
Calogero Greco
Released
Calogero Greco was born in Sicily around 1893–1894 (a 1927 report gives his age as 33). Calogero Greco was a S...
Abner Green
Released
Abner Green was the executive secretary of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and a trustee...
Gil Green
Released
Gil Green was One of twelve Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States.
Gil Green, a leader of the com...
Shields Green
Released
Shields Green was a fugitive from slavery in South Carolina who had escaped to the North and become close to F...
David Greenglass
Released
David Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's younger brother; Army machinist at Los Alamos who passed plutonium-bomb...
Priscilla Grim
Awaiting Trial
Priscilla Grim, age 48 of Brooklyn, New York, was a longtime media organizer with Occupy Wall Street in 2011-2...
Steven Guerra
Released
Steven Guerra was a Puerto Rican independence activist identified by prosecutors as a leader of FALN support w...
Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán
Released
Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán was Minister of Information of the New York Young Lords and was arrested in the group's...
Nancy Gwin
Released
Nancy Gwin — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installation...
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