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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.
Solomon Metz
Released
Solomon Metz was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union officer detained in the prosecution arisi...
Oscar Mileaf
Released
Oscar Mileaf was a New York fur workers union militant convicted in the 1927 Mineola prosecution arising from...
Arthur Miller
Released
Arthur Miller, the playwright, was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 (the House voted 373–9) after he ref...
David J. Miller
Released
David J. Miller was a 24-year-old Catholic Worker pacifist and the first person prosecuted under the August 19...
Louis Miller
Released
Dr. Louis Miller was a New York physician and an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm...
Shelley Miller
Released
Shelley Miller was an anti-imperialist organizer and Puerto Rican independence activist who led the New Moveme...
Jacob Mindel
Released
Jacob Mindel was the senior member of the Foley Square Second String, the Communist Party USAs internal educat...
Robert Minor
Released
Robert Minor was the celebrated cartoonist turned communist organizer. Robert Minor was arrested in the July 3...
Aaron Minter
Released
Aaron Minter, an Occupy Wall Street organizer who frequently went by the alias Aaron Black, was sentenced to 1...
Hector Xavier Monsegur
Released
Hector Xavier Monsegur, known online as Sabu, was a central organizer of Anonymous and its offshoot LulzSec be...
Henry Monsky
Released
Henry Monsky was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
Ricarte Montes García
Released
Member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP) jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify before...
Anne Montgomery
Released
Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, of the Society of the Sacred Heart was one of the most prolific Plowshares activ...
Donnell Moore
Released
Donnell Moore was a former Black Panther Party member from Oakland who graduated from the University of Califo...
Howard Wilbur Moore
Released
Howard Wilbur Moore was among about fifty-five "absolutists" transferred through Fort Riley and Camp Funston b...
Dhoruba bin Wahad
Released
Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, born Richard Earl Moore on June 30, 1944, was a leader of the New York Black Pan...
William Morales
Released
FALN member severely injured in a 1978 premature bomb explosion at a Queens, NY safehouse that took both of hi...
Antonio Herrera Moreno
Released
Antonio Herrera Moreno was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mas...
Danny Morrison
Released
Danny Morrison was a Sinn Fein publicist and later a writer. He was jailed in Buffalo with Owen Carron after a...
Felix Morrow
Released
Felix Morrow was a Trotskyist editor and theoretician. Edited the SWP's newspaper The Militant and its theoret...
Fidelis Moscinski
Released
Father Fidelis Moscinski is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal (CFR) from the Bronx, New York, a Catholic pries...
Johann Most
Released
Johann Most was a German-American anarchist and the editor of the newspaper Freiheit, an advocate of "propagan...
Nick Mottern
Released
Nick Mottern is a Vietnam-era Navy veteran, journalist, and anti-drone organizer based in New York. He co-coor...
Jalil Muntaqim
Released
Jalil Muntaqim is a political activist and a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member who, after...
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