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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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A. Blanca
A. Blanca was among six Zelgreen cafeteria pickets who had served disorderly-conduct terms and remained jailed...
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Bill Blank
Bill Blank was individually named among nine people arrested for street speaking at Eastern Parkway and Utica...
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Mannie Blier
Mannie Blier wrote from actual confinement at Welfare Island, New York, in a letter printed under the headline...
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Hyman Bloch
Released
Hyman Bloch was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Paul Block
Paul Block, city organizer of the Relief Workers League, was beaten and jailed during the June 30, 1934 police...
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Phil Block
Phil Block was a needle-trades union militant subjected to extrajudicial confinement in New York. The Daily Wo...
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Abe Bloom
Abe Bloom was arrested at an anti-Nazi demonstration in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of April 11, 193...
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Max Bloom
Released
Max Bloom was one of five Ohrbach department-store pickets arrested in New York on Saturday, April 4, 1936. Th...
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Sarahjane Blum
Sarahjane Blum was jailed following an animal-rights video screening at Syracuse University and released the n...
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Hyman Blumberg (Brooklyn eviction, 1933)
Hyman Blumberg, historically aged twenty-six, was struck on the head and jailed after addressing the crowd. Th...
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P. Blumkin (Eisman protest, 1930)
P. Blumkin, identified only by the printed initial and surname, was one of six protesters against Harry Eisman...
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Eddie Blunt
Eddie Blunt, a seventeen-year-old Black Harlem youth, was shot twice in the abdomen by officer Fred Barts and...
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Karl Johan Boehm
Karl Johan Boehm was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York...
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Mark Boeurum
Mark Boeurum was one of the fur-market workers individually named as actually arrested in the July 26, 1928 Da...
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Taras Bojarchuk
Released
Taras Bojarchuk was an ex-merchant-marine officer jailed for deportation over alleged Communist Party membersh...
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Giuseppe Bologna
Giuseppe Bologna was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing o...
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Wayne Bonekemper
Released
A Rochester, NY resident and one of the eight arrested Sept 6, 1970 for the draft-board and FBI-office raid. C...
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Otto Fritz Borchardt
Otto Fritz Borchardt was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New...
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Sol Bornstein
Sol Bornstein, a member of Painters Local 275, was arrested more than a year before the November 1936 report a...
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Emmi Amman Von Borowsky
Emmi Amman Von Borowsky was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, o...
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Karim Von Borowsky
Karim Von Borowsky was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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August Bostrom
Named as August Bostrom in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the gro...
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Andre Boutin
Released
Andre Boutin was from Onondaga County, New York. Andre Boutin circulated the antiwar pamphlet "Pure Common Sen...
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Harold Bowers
Released
Harold Bowers was a New York ILA longshore leader jailed for six months for contempt in 1954 over his role in...
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