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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.
Gustus Wortsmann
Released
Gustus Wortsmann was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Jacob Wortsmann
Released
Jacob Wortsmann was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Art Young
Released
Art Young was a Wisconsin-born socialist cartoonist for Puck, Life, The Masses, and later The Liberator and Th...
Martin Young
Released
Martin Young was a labor organizer (Transport Workers Union and Steelworkers) arrested on October 26, 1951 and...
Mohamed Yousry
Released
Mohammed Yousry was an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at York College and court-appointed translator...
Michael Zweig
Released
Michael Zweig, a Stony Brook economics professor, was jailed for refusing to answer grand-jury questions about...
Emile de Antonio
Released
Emile de Antonio was a Marxist American documentary filmmaker known for Point of Order (1964), In the Year of...
Carmen Dolores Otero de Torresola
Released
Carmen Dolores Otero de Torresola was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second...
Nicole d’Entremont
Released
Nicole d’Entremont was a Catholic Worker editor jailed after an antiwar sit-down at New York’s Armed Forces Da...
Franz von Rintelen
Released
Franz von Rintelen was a German Imperial Navy officer who ran German covert operations in the United States fr...
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Sayfullo Saipov
In Custody
Sayfullo Saipov was convicted on January 26, 2023 of federal offenses arising from the October 31, 2017 truck...
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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
In Custody
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was taken into custody in Islamabad on February 7, 1995 and transported to the Southern Dis...
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Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi
In Custody
Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi, age 62, was Monzer Al Kassars associate in the 2007 DEA-FARC arms-dealer sting. Convicte...
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Davud Ansariy
In Custody
Davud Ansariy was arrested in Georgia in August 2026 and extradited to New York on September 23, 2026 after ne...
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Samuel Brown
In Custody
Samuel Brown, who took the New Afrikan name Sekou Abdullah Mtetezi in prison, was a Black Liberation Army memb...
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Sinmyah Amera Ceasar
In Custody
Sinmyah Amera Ceasar pleaded guilty in 2017 to recruiting for ISIS, then admitted obstructing justice and flee...
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Awais Chudhary
In Custody
Awais Chudhary was arrested on August 29, 2019 during an FBI operation concerning plans for an ISIS-inspired k...
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Jeffrey Scott Hamm Jr.
In Custody
Jeffrey Scott Hamm Jr. was taken into federal custody by February 27, 2026 after prosecutors alleged that he p...
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Laguerre Payen
In Custody
Laguerre Payen is a Haitian-born Newburgh, New York resident with schizophrenia and an intellectual disability...
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Catherine Beth Washburn
In Custody
Catherine Beth Washburn, an upstate New York Palestine activist, was arrested on June 30, 2026 on allegations...
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Adam Mueller
Adam Mueller was an anti-Nazi refugee formerly employed at a Jewish hospital in Brooklyn. The January 27, 1936...
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Mousa Abu Marzook
Mousa Abu Marzook was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service at New York’s JFK Airport on...
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Victor Cumberbatch
The July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dragon, individually listed Victor Cumberbatch in it...
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John Mahoney
John Mahoney was individually named among Griffiss Air Force Base anti-nuclear trespass defendants sentenced N...
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 Center, New YorkNew York, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
10 cases