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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.
Mae Mallory
Released
Mae Mallory was a Harlem activist and one of the 'Harlem Nine' mothers whose 1958 lawsuit against New York Cit...
Hector Marroquin
Released
Héctor Marroquín was a Mexican-born activist whose decade-long fight against deportation became a major politi...
George Marshall
Released
George Marshall was a civil-liberties activist, economist and conservationist — later a president of the Sierr...
Robert J. Martin
Released
Robert J. Martin was beginning to serve a prison sentence on June 21, 1918. Amember of the IBSA, Martin was co...
Maximino Pedraza Martinez
Released
Maximino Pedraza Martinez was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal...
Benno Martini
Released
Benno Martini was secretary of the Federation of German Worker Clubs. The Daily Worker of February 6, 1936 rep...
Carl Marzani
Released
Carl Aldo Marzani was an Italian-American immigrant radical, OSS veteran, and former State Department employee...
Connie Matthews
Released
Connie Matthews was a Danish-Jamaican activist who served as the Black Panther Party’s international coordinat...
Colinford Mattis
Released
Colinford Mattis, 32, attorney, with Urooj Rahman attempted to use Molotov cocktails to damage NYPD vehicles d...
Louis McCabe
Released
Louis McCabe was one of the five defense lawyers for the eleven Communist leaders tried at the 1949 Foley Squa...
Jakhi McCray
Awaiting Trial
Jakhi McCray (also recorded as Jakhi Lodgson-McCray), a young activist from Brooklyn, was charged in the U.S....
Edward McGowan
Released
Edward McGowan was a Jesuit (13 years), age 36 at indictment, resident of Woodstock College and a Bronx native...
Olive McKeon
Released
Olive McKeon was an Irish-American activist jailed for refusing a federal grand jury demand during an investig...
Cecily McMillan
Released
Cecily McMillan emerged as a prominent figure associated with Occupy Wall Street after her 2012 arrest during...
David McReynolds
Released
David McReynolds was a pacifist, democratic socialist, and longtime War Resisters League organizer. Police arr...
Joseph E. McWilliams
Released
Joseph E. McWilliams, commonly known as Joe McWilliams, was a New York far-right organizer who founded the Chr...
Juan Francisco Ortiz Medina
Released
Juan Francisco Ortiz Medina was president of the New York junta in 1953, whose home served as party headquarte...
Julio Flores Medina
Released
Julio Flores Medina was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass t...
Gabriel Megahey
Released
Irish republican activist convicted in federal court in the 1982 "Brooklyn Five" case for conspiring to ship s...
Sam Melville
Released
Sam Melville, born Samuel Joseph Grossman in 1934, was a New York City anti-war activist who, with the small a...
Murray Melvin
Released
Murray Melvin was a vice-president of New York's Allied Printing Helpers' Union who helped organize the 1935 s...
Murry Melvin
Released
Murry Melvin was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...
Samuel Mencher
Released
Samuel Mencher was one of the New York fur workers convicted in the 1927 Mineola trial — the Long Island prose...
Jorge Rodríguez Mendieta
Released
Jorge Enrique Rodríguez Mendieta, also known as Iván Vargas, commanded the 24th Front of the Revolutionary Arm...
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