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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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Abe Anderson
Abe Anderson was individually named among nine people arrested for street speaking at Eastern Parkway and Utic...
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Charles Anderson (New York relief, 1934)
Charles Anderson was among five workers arrested when police attacked an Unemployment Councils delegation dema...
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Joseph Anderson
Released
Joseph Anderson was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Samuel J. Anderson
Released
Samuel J. Anderson was a Georgia native living in New York. The federal account says officials regarded his su...
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William Anthony
William Anthony was the spokesman for forty unemployed South Side workers in Jamaica, New York, who demanded i...
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Olive Armstrong
Released
Olive Armstrong was one of the New York 8+ grand-jury resisters jailed for refusing to testify in the investig...
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Walter Armstrong
Released
Walter Armstrong was an ACT UP/New York activist. During the July 14, 1992 AIDS march in New York City he repo...
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Norma Aronson
Released
Norma Aronson chaired the organizing committee in the Globe Mail Service strike in NewYork. The Daily Worker o...
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Nathan Asch
Nathan Asch is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arrest...
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Fanny Atkin
Page 5 individually names Fanny Atkin among eleven pickets arrested the previous morning, December 27, 1929, a...
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Christian Auch
Christian Auch was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York,...
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Rose Auerbach
Rose Auerbach was a New York fur worker arrested during the March 1930 conflict around the B. Axel & Co. strik...
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Friedrich Ernest Auhagen
Friedrich Ernest Auhagen was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Andrew Eugene Austin
Andrew Austin was a Black Panther Party newspaper-distribution organizer. In 1971 he and Ellis White were arre...
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John Baehler
Released
John Baehler was a 22-year-old former Jesuit seminarian who burned his draft card with Peter Kiger at the Comm...
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Josephine Baer
Josephine Baer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York,...
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William Bailey
Page 2 names William Bailey, a seaman, among four workers arrested during the July 26 Bremen anti-Nazi demonst...
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Wallace Baker
Released
One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...
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Josephine Baldwin
Josephine Baldwin was arrested at Lafayette Square in Buffalo on October 25, 1930 while carrying a sign advert...
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Celia Balogh
Celia Balogh was one of three workers jailed on disorderly-conduct charges during a protest outside Governor L...
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Stephen Balogh
Stephen Balogh described a brief police detention while speaking at a Communist outing at Tibbets Brook Park i...
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Paul Bante
Paul Bante was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, on F...
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Arthur Barber
Released
Arthur Barber was arrested in 1965 for the killing of Bronx numbers runner Elijah Williams. Police obtained a...
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Gabriel Barcelo
Released
Gabriel Barcelo was jailed after protesting the film Under the Texas Moon in New York in July 1930. The Daily...
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