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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.
Albert "Nuh" Washington
Released
Albert "Nuh" Washington was a New Afrikan Black Liberation Army prisoner of war, born in New York City. A Blac...
Oscar Washington
Released
Oscar Washington was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He was arrested on Feb...
Robert Webb
Released
Robert Webb was a Field Marshal of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party and one of the original Pan...
Abraham Weidinger
Released
Abraham Weidinger was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union cloakmakers’ union member detained in the...
Sam Weinstein
Released
Sam Weinstein was a decorated World War I veteran and leader of the 1932 Muskin Manufacturing Company furnitur...
Louis Weinstock
Released
Louis Weinstock was a Brooklyn house-painter, longtime organizer for the painters union, and treasurer of the...
William Weinstone
Released
William Weinstone was a writer, labor organizer, editor, and founding member of the Communist Party USA. He or...
William W. Weinstone
The July 22 issue reports arrest at the Friday July 19, 1929 demonstration outside the Nanking consulate, 13 A...
Fred Wermann
Fred Wermann was identified as a New York printer held in the U.S. deportation campaign against labor and anti...
Donald Earl Wetzel
Released
Donald Earl Wetzel was an American novelist, humanist, and antiwar activist imprisoned for conscientious draft...
Anthony “Kimu” White
Released
Anthony “Kimu” White, also known as Kimu Olugbala, was associated with the Black Liberation Army. He was detai...
Alden Whitman
Released
Alden Whitman was a New York Times copy editor prosecuted after refusing to answer questions from the Senate I...
Richard Wichlei
Released
One of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on October 16, 1940, the...
Cathy Wilkerson
Released
Cathlyn Platt “Cathy” Wilkerson was an organizer with Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underg...
Bevelyn Beatty Williams
Released
Bevelyn Beatty Williams, 31, of Ooltewah TN, co-founder of At The Well Ministries, was sentenced July 24, 2024...
David Williams
Released
David Williams was one of the four men recruited by FBI informant Shahed Hussein into the May 20, 2009 fiction...
Onta Williams
Released
Onta Williams was one of the four men recruited by FBI informant Shahed Hussein into the May 20, 2009 fictiona...
Ruth Williams
Released
Ruth Williams was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the une...
John Williamson
Released
John Williamson was One of eleven Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States.
John Williamson, a leade...
Nancy Willis
Released
Nancy Willis was a Patriot Party leader arrested with the organization’s national leadership in New York on Fe...
Morris Wills
In Exile
Morris Wills was a U.S. Army corporal from Fort Ann, New York, and one of 21 American Korean War prisoners who...
Harry Winitsky
Released
Harry Winitsky was a leader of the Communist Party from New York City. Harry Winitsky was sentenced to a five-...
Henry Winston
Released
Henry Winston was One of twelve Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States.
Henry M. Winston, a leader...
Julius Woolf
Released
Julius Woolf was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union member detained in the prosecution arisin...
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