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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.
Ranjani Srinivasan
Released
Ranjani Srinivasan is an Indian national and doctoral researcher who was enrolled at Columbia University. In 2...
Suresh Sriskandarajah
Released
Suresh Sriskandarajah assisted the Tamil Tigers in researching and acquiring aviation equipment, submarine and...
Jacob Stachel
Released
Jacob Stachel was One of eleven Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States.
Jack Stachel, a leader of...
Joseph Starobin
Released
Joseph Starobin was a writer and the former foreign editor of the Daily Worker who was voted a contempt-of-Con...
Mollie Steimer
Released
Mollie Steimer was an anarchist activist in New York City whose organizing centered on opposition to war, stat...
Eleanor E. Stein
Released
Daughter of New Deal economist Arthur Stein and civil-rights organizer Annie Stein. Joined Weatherman summer 1...
Sidney Steinberg
Released
Sidney Steinberg was a Communist Party organizer indicted in the 1951 second-string New York Smith Act case wh...
Charlotte Stern
Released
Charlotte Stern was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided...
Lynne Stewart
Released
Lynne Stewart was a movement lawyer known for representing high profile figures facing charges related to poli...
Walter Stewart
Released
Felon-in-possession of the firearm in the Buffalo protest SUV incident, June 2020. Sentence: 58 months federal...
Lorenzo Stokes
Released
Lorenzo Stokes was a Black garage worker, a member of the Young Communist League and the Downtown Unemployed C...
Rose Pastor Stokes
Released
Rose Pastor Stokes was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Augustów, Russian Empire; rolled cigars in Clevela...
Milton Stone
Released
Milton Stone was an organizer of New York City's Downtown Unemployed Council. He joined the unemployed delegat...
Morris Stupnicker
Released
Morris Stupnicker was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union cloakmakers’ union organizer detained in t...
Mtayari Sundiata
Mtayari Sundiata was Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata, born Samuel Smith on February 18, 1944, and became a citizen of...
Bilal Sunni-Ali
Released
Bilal Sunni-Ali was born William R. Johnson in Harlem on July 13, 1948. A woodwind musician from childhood, he...
Iya Fulani Sunni-Ali
Released
Iya Fulani Sunni-Ali, born Cynthia Boston in New Rochelle, New York in 1948, was a singer, educator, and Minis...
Percy Sutton
Released
Percy Sutton, president of the Manhattan branch of the NAACP, was arrested with Mark Lane as a 1961 Freedom Ri...
Momodou Taal
Released
Momodou Taal is a graduate student with dual United Kingdom and Gambian citizenship who was enrolled at Cornel...
Caesar Tabib
Released
Caesar Tabib was from New York, New York. Caesar Tabib was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and s...
Michael Tabor
Released
Michael Aloysius “Cetewayo” Tabor was a Harlem organizer, writer and member of the Black Panther Party’s New Y...
Frank Tannenbaum
Released
Frank Tannenbaum was a 21-year-old Austrian-born IWW unemployed-workers' organizer in New York City during the...
Robert Taylor
Released
Robert “RT” Taylor was a New York Black liberation organizer and the son of activist Viola Plummer. He was arr...
Athos Terzani
Released
Athos Terzani was an anti-fascist worker framed in 1933 for the shooting of Anthony Fierro at a rally of the f...
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