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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.
Maliki Shakur Latine
Released
Maliki Shakur Latine is a person who has consistently acted, studied, and worked for the betterment of his com...
Juan Bernardo Lebron
Released
Juan Bernardo Lebron was a member of the party’s New York junta. A federal grand jury indicted the party leade...
Jim Lechay
Rose Lechay’s first-person article reports that police arrested her and Jim Lechay on May 27, 1934 after clear...
Rose Lechay
Rose Lechay’s first-person article reports that police arrested her and Jim Lechay on May 27, 1934 after clear...
Bob Lederer
Released
Bob Lederer is a New York writer, editor and longtime anti-imperialist and AIDS activist, a member of the New...
Ruth Leider
Released
Ruth Leider was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided ref...
Clara Lemlich
Released
Clara Lemlich was a labor organizer who helped spark the 1909-1910 New York shirtwaist strike, known as the Up...
Otto Lenhart
Released
Otto Lenhart was one of the New York fur workers convicted in the 1927 Mineola trial — the Long Island prosecu...
Joseph Leston
Released
Joseph Leston, also spelled Lesten, was a seaman and one of five delegates chosen by the March 6, 1930 unemplo...
Tao Li
Released
Tao Li, also known as Tao Hsuan Li, was a Chinese student and anti-imperialist activist in New York. Labor Dep...
Samuel Lipman
Released
Samuel Lipman was 21 at the time of his arrest; the lone Marxist socialist (rather than anarchist) among the A...
Roy Lisker
Released
Roy Lisker was a writer, mathematician, and self-described Renaissance man who was one of five men who burned...
Alfredo Lopez
Released
Alfredo Lopez was a Puerto Rican Socialist Party Central Committee member and a coordinator of the July 4th Co...
M. Lopez
M. Lopez, a Food Workers Industrial Union baker, was arrested June 7, 1930 at a meeting outside Schlom Deutsch...
Vladimir Lossieff
Released
Vladimir Lossieff was a New York editor and Industrial Workers of the World member convicted in the 1918 Chica...
Frank Lott
Released
Frank Lott was incarcerated at Attica in 1971 and helped establish the Attica Liberation Faction. The prisoner...
Mattia Luini
Released
Mattia Luini is a dual Italian-American citizen from New York who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta...
Alexander H. Macmillan
Released
Alexander H. Macmillan was a Canadian-born senior Watch Tower official; one of eight defendants indicted May 7...
Calvin Madison
Released
Calvin Madison was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Unde...
Manuel Magaña
Released
Manuel Magaña was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided r...
Andy Mager
Released
Of Syracuse, NY, was indicted in 1984 and sentenced Feb. 4, 1985 in federal court in Syracuse to 6 months in p...
Norman Mailer
Released
Norman Mailer was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist arrested at the October 21, 1967 March on the Pentagon for...
Abdul Majid
Released
Abdul Majid was a native of Queens New York and had been imprisoned for two decades. In the 1960s, he worked i...
Maurice Malkin
Released
Maurice Malkin was a founding member of the American communist movement and a furriers' union militant. Mauric...
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