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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.
Walter Thomas
Released
One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...
Willie Thomas
Released
Willie Thomas was a Black man held in Albany, New York in 1951 for extradition back to an Alabama chain gang,...
Eric Thompson
Released
Eric Thompson was one of the Attica Brothers — the prisoners the state of New York prosecuted after the Septem...
Robert Thompson
Released
Robert Thompson was the CPUSA NY State chairman; WWII Distinguished Service Cross (New Guinea); Spanish Civil...
Lureida Torres
Released
Lureida Torres was a twenty-six-year-old New York City schoolteacher and a member of the Puerto Rican Socialis...
Marie Haydée Beltrán Torres
Released
Marie Haydée Beltrán Torres is a Puerto Rican nationalist whose case is closely linked to the clandestine grou...
Alexander Trachtenberg
Released
Alexander Trachtenberg was the founder and longtime publisher of International Publishers, the principal U.S....
William Trajer
Released
William Trajer was a marine worker prosecuted with Thomas Bunker and John Soderberg during the Independent Tid...
Carlo Tresca
Released
Carlo Tresca was an Italian-American anarchist, syndicalist, orator, and newspaper editor who became one of th...
Henry Trigos-Celon
Released
Henry Trigos-Celon, age 43, ELN member; detained in September 2020. Pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to th...
Sojourner Truth
Released
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree. Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's r...
Jerry F. Tung
Released
Jerry F. Tung was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war rese...
George Tyne
Released
George Tyne, a New York actor, was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 after refusing to tell the House Un-...
William E. Van Amburgh
Released
William E. Van Amburgh was secretary-treasurer of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and one of eight Wat...
Harry Van Arsdale Jr.
Released
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. was business manager of New York City electrical workers’ Local 3. He was arrested after...
Peter Van Schaack
Released
Peter Van Schaack was a distinguished New York lawyer who, though sympathetic to many American grievances, cou...
Angel Luis Arzola Velez
Released
Angel Luis Arzola Velez was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal ma...
Julio Veras
Released
Dominican revolutionary and supporter of Puerto Rican independence, also known as Julio Veras Delgadillo and J...
George Sylvester Viereck
Released
George Sylvester Viereck was a German-born poet, journalist, and propagandist who worked on behalf of Nazi Ger...
Ioannis Viglakis
Released
Ioannis Viglakis (Pablo), a Greek arms dealer age 52, was arrested in Panama for attempting to sell rocket-pro...
Cristian Vintila
Released
Cristian Vintila, a former high-ranking government minister in Romania, conspired with Italian ex-MP Massimo R...
John Walsh
Released
John Walsh was an RVW leader in the early years of the movement from New York, New York. John Walsh was convic...
Meng Wanzhou
Released
Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer and deputy chair of the board of Chinese tech giant Huawei, was impr...
Roger Wareham
Released
Civil rights attorney and December 12th Movement co-founder, charged as a New York 8+ defendant in the October...
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