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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.
Harry Murray
Released
Harry Murray was a peace activist whose oral history describes custody following antiwar protests in New York,...
Louis Murray
Released
Louis Murray was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...
Twymon Ford Myers
Released
Twymon Ford Myers was a Black Liberation Army member from New York sought in connection with police shootings,...
Ramanan Mylvaganam
Released
Ramanan Mylvaganam helped to procure weapons and supplies for the Tamil Tigers.
Case characteristics: FBI sti...
Raisa Nemikin
Released
Staff member of the Episcopal Church's National Commission on Hispanic Affairs jailed in 1977 alongside Maria...
Sam Nessin
Released
Sam Nessin was a member of the delegation of the unemployed that went to the New York City Board of Estimate o...
Miguel Vargas Nieves
Released
Miguel Vargas Nieves was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass...
Donald Noble
Released
Donald Noble was incarcerated at Attica in 1971 and helped establish the Attica Liberation Faction. The prison...
Paul Novick
Released
Paul Novick was the longtime editor of the Yiddish-language daily Morning Freiheit. On August 25, 1953 the fed...
Edward O'Connor
Released
Edward O'Connor was a Delaware County, New York 'Calico Indian' convicted alongside John Van Steenburgh of the...
Harvey O'Connor
Released
Harvey O'Connor (March 29, 1897 – August 29, 1987) was a labor journalist and author, born in Minneapolis and...
Ciaron O'Reilly
Released
Ciaron O’Reilly is an Australian peace campaigner and long-time Catholic Worker organizer whose activism inclu...
Joseph F. O'Rourke
Released
Joseph F. O'Rourke was one of the D.C. Nine, who entered Dow Chemical’s Washington offices on March 22, 1969 a...
Mohamed Sadeek Odeh
Mohamed Sadeek Odeh was held in federal custody in New York in the prosecution arising from the1998 United Sta...
Baba Odinga
Released
Baba Odinga was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy case...
Sekou Odinga
Released
Sekou Mgobogi Abdullah Odinga, born Nathanial Burns, helped found the Bronx chapter of the Black Panther Party...
Bill Ofenloch
Released
Bill Ofenloch is a New York Catholic peace activist whose work with the Catholic Peace Fellowship and Catholic...
Carl Ohm
Released
Carl Ohm, also printed as Karl Ohm, legally entered the United States in April 1929. He was an International L...
Therese Patricia Okoumou
Released
Therese Patricia Okoumou, age 45, scaled the Statue of Liberty pedestal on July 4, 2018 in protest of the Trum...
Edward Oquendo
Released
Edward Oquendo was a young Black anti-war activist, a member of Blacks Against Negative Dying and of Youth Aga...
Roque Orobio Lobon
Released
Roque Luis Orobio Lobon, also identified as Roque Orobio Tobon and known as Mello or Tachuela, was a Panamania...
Chi Ossé
Chi Ossé was arrested at a September 24, 2026 sit-in near United Nations headquarters in New York City opposin...
Juan Otero
Released
Juan Otero (Juan Otero Jr.) was a South Bronx Puerto Rican community activist and construction-trades anti-dis...
Carl Paivio
Released
Carl Paivio was born Karl Einar Päiviö on November 23, 1893 at Töysä in Finland. Carl Paivio was a Finnish-Ame...
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