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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.
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Bill Cuddy
Bill Cuddy was individually named among Griffiss Air Force Base anti-nuclear trespass defendants sentenced Nov...
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Kim Blacklock
Kim Blacklock was individually named among three peace activists arrested December 8, 1983 after an antiwar pr...
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Johanna Benschop
Johanna Benschop was individually named among three peace activists arrested December 8, 1983 after an antiwar...
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Carol McKenzie
Carol McKenzie was individually named among three peace activists arrested December 8, 1983 after an antiwar p...
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Stanley Borowsky
Stanley Borowsky participated in the 1956 New York protest against compulsory air-raid shelter drills. Dorothy...
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Jos. B. Hart
Jos. B. Hart was a railway worker and IWW organizer detained in Olean, New York, from October 27 to October 30...
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Shirley Lockwood
The Griffiss update individually names George Ostensen, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Shirley Lockwood and Brian...
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Dorene Cornwell
Dorene Cornwell was convicted after a September 9, 1985 trial over removing a warning sign from the Seneca Arm...
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Patricia Hughes
Patricia Hughes was individually named among Knolls Atomic Laboratory protesters who refused fines after their...
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Jean Hynes
Jean Hynes was individually named among Knolls Atomic Laboratory protesters who refused fines after their Sept...
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Bonnie Stumph
Bonnie Stumph was individually named among Knolls Atomic Laboratory protesters who refused fines after their S...
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Asha Thornton
Asha Thornton was a New York community-health advocate detained as a material witness in the 1982 federal gran...
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Richard Sullivan
Released
Richard Sullivan was secretary of the Greater New York Unemployment Councils. The July 4, 1934 Daily Worker re...
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Henry Block
Released
Henry Block was organizer of the Relief Workers’ League. The July 4, 1934 Daily Worker reported that police cl...
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J. Lerner
Released
J. Lerner organized a tenant rent strike at 552 Sutter Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. The July 4, 1934 Dai...
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Napoleon
Napoleon was a worker arrested and beaten by police during the October 27, 1930 Zelgreen Cafeteria picketing i...
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Jenny Cohen (New York fur strike, 1933)
Jenny Cohen was arrested during the New York fur-market strike demonstration described on page 3 of the June 1...
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Nat Leventhal
Nat Leventhal was a New York dress-strike picket. The December 11, 1929 Daily Worker reports that he was stabb...
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Stanley Moore (Brooklyn, 1935)
Stanley Moore was a Brooklyn youth whose July 1935 arrest and detention prompted an International Labor Defens...
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Alvarez Gil (White Plains road strike, 1931)
Alvarez Gil was a White Plains road striker whose detention, alleged police beating and habeas corpus proceedi...
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Brother Flip (Attica speaker, 1971)
An Attica prisoner known as Brother Flip gave a September 10, 1971 speech advocating communication, humane tre...
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Mrs. Merta (Red Special detainee, 1919)
Named as Mrs. Merta in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group l...
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Albany
Albany was enslaved by Mrs. Carpenter and was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York pr...
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Ben
Ben was enslaved by Capt. Marshall and was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York prose...
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