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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.
B. Ross (Buffalo unemployment defendant, 1930)
The May1930 Labor Defender identifies B.Ross in the Buffalo workers’ photograph, back row second from left, am...
Mark Rudd
Released
Chairman of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society who led the 1968 occupation o...
John Ruggles
Released
John Ruggles was prosecuted for blasphemy in New York. On September 2, 1810, John Ruggles, speaking in a loud...
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Released
Joseph Franklin Rutherford was a Missouri-born lawyer; successor to Charles Taze Russell as president of the W...
Harry Sacher
Released
Harry Sacher was a defense attorney at the 1949 Foley Square trial of the eleven Communist Party leaders. For...
Luis Salazar
Released
Luis Salazar was an ACT UP activist arrested in the same 1990 Albany state AIDS-budget action, identified by K...
Margaret Sanger
Released
Margaret Sanger was the founder of the first U.S. birth-control clinic at 46 Amboy Street, Brownsville, Brookl...
William Sanger
Released
William Sanger was an American architect and painter, and the husband of the birth-control campaigner Margaret...
Shakell Sanks
Released
Shakell Sanks, 26, helped light a piece of fabric covered in gas that’s stuffed into the gas tank of the Famil...
Jo Ann Santiago
Released
Jo Ann Santiago was born in Canada in 1922 and brought to the United States at age six. Immigration authoritie...
Michael Sapper
Released
Michael Sapper was an IWW delegate and organizer of oil field workers, from New York, New York. Michael Sapper...
Sathajhan Sarachandran
Released
Sahilal Sarachandran, Nadarasa Yogarasa, Sathajhan Sarachandran, and Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam were involved...
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon was arrested at a September 24, 2026 sit-in near United Nations headquarters in New York City o...
Alfred Sarant
In Exile
Alfred Sarant was an American electrical engineer linked by decrypted Venona messages to Julius Rosenberg’s So...
Ahmed Abdel Sattar
Released
Ahmed Abdel Sattar is described in federal case materials and contemporaneous reporting as an Egyptian-born U....
Khaleel Sultarn Sayyed
Released
Khaleel Sultarn Sayyed was a Black Liberation Front member arrested in New York on February 16, 1965, in the p...
Morris U. Schappes
Released
Morris U. Schappes was a City College of New York English tutor and Communist Party member targeted in the Rap...
Helen Schloss
Released
Helen Schloss was a socialist public-health nurse who had worked among the poor on New York City's Lower East...
Isidore Schneider
Isidore Schneider is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers...
Jack Schneider
Released
Jack Schneider was a leader of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union who was targeted during a feder...
Samuel Seabury
Released
Samuel Seabury was an Anglican clergyman in Westchester County, New York, and prominent political organizer wh...
Stuart Seborer
In Exile
Stuart Seborer, born Solomon Seborer, was an American economist, wartime Army officer and former Treasury Depa...
Pete Seeger
Released
Pete Seeger, the folk singer, was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 after refusing — on First Amendment g...
Roderick Seidenberg
Released
Roderick Seidenberg was a German-born New York architect and writer. Roderick Seidenberg was a secular absolut...
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