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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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J. Benkal
Released
J. Benkal, a cloakmaker, was actually arrested while picketing Dressler and Freedman at 104 West 27th Street....
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William Bennett (Attica defendant)
William Bennett (printed alias Goldmine) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica...
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Joseph Anton Berberich
Joseph Anton Berberich was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, Ne...
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John Berg
Named as John Berg in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group le...
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Sadie Berge
Sadie Berge was one of four young Communists sentenced by Magistrate Mark Rudich in Coney Island Court on May...
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Rubin Berger
Rubin Berger was prosecuted for assault arising from his activities in the Needleman and Bremmer garment strik...
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Leopold Bergman
Released
Leopold Bergman was a New York anarchist — very likely the Yiddish-language anarchist writer and editor of tha...
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Sol Berkowitz
Sol Berkowitz was a Fur Floor Boys Union member arrested after a reported attack while checking overtime in Ne...
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Samuel Berland
Samuel Berland was manager of Laundry Workers International Union Local 280 during the Hotel Albert Laundry st...
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Abe Berlin
Abe Berlin signed the joint letter headed Solidarity Behind the Bars in the October 1934 Labor Defender. He an...
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Jacqueline Bernard
Released
Jacqueline Bernard, also reported as Jackie Bernard, was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister. She spent months i...
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Arnold Bernardini
Released
Arnold Bernardini was a union picketer arrested in Brooklyn in November 1954 on a disorderly-conduct charge. T...
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David Bernet
Arrested May 19, 1933 following the Home Relief Bureau protest at West 47th Street near Sixth Avenue, Manhatta...
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Sarah Bernstein
Page 5 individually names Sarah Bernstein among eleven pickets arrested the previous morning, December 27, 192...
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Thomas Berry
Released
Thomas Berry was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy cas...
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Joseph Bevilacqua
Released
One of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on October 16, 1940, the...
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Friedrich Beyerbach
Friedrich Beyerbach was a refugee from Nazi Germany whose freedom was sought through habeas corpus proceedings...
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Paul Biggins
Released
Paul Biggins was one of five workers arrested during a demonstration outside the North Harlem Relief Station a...
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Richie Bilello (Attica defendant)
Richie Bilello is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendan...
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Ernest Bixby (Attica defendant)
Ernest Bixby is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Phil Black
Phil Black was among three unemployed relief delegates arrested after visiting Emergency Relief Bureau No. 60...
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John Black (Purity bakery picket, 1935)
John Black was individually named among Purity bakery pickets arrested on suspicion in New York during the nig...
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George Blackwell
Page 2 names George Blackwell, a painter, among four workers arrested during the July 26 Bremen anti-Nazi demo...
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Arthur Blair
Page 2 identifies Arthur Blair as severely beaten and arrested in the July 26, 1935 Bremen anti-Nazi demonstra...
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