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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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Pasquale Branca
Released
Pasquale Branca was a former teacher prosecuted for contempt of Congress after he refused to answer questions...
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Thomas J. Brandon
Thomas J. Brandon is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers...
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Gerard Anthony Brannigan
Released
Gerard Anthony Brannigan was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IR...
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Otto Bremer
Otto Bremer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, on...
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Oscar E. Brex
Released
Oscar E. Brex was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Julius Broader
Julius Broader, a Brownsville Unemployed Council organizer, was arrested June 11, 1934 at the relief station a...
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J. Brofman
The March 25, 1930 report says the demonstrators against Harry Eisman’s recommitment were actually serving ten...
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Anna Brooks
Anna Brooks helped lead the strike at Spear Underwear Company, 134 Spring Street, with Sol Hertz. The November...
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Raissa Browder
Released
Raissa Browder was the Russian-born wife of former Communist leader Earl Browder, arrested with him in Yonkers...
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George Brown (Harlem LSNR defendant, 1931)
Page 1 identifies George Brown with Louis Campbell and Arthur Williams as four Black Harlem League of Struggle...
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Harold Brown (New York newsboy, 1931)
Page 2 reports twelve-year-old Harold Brown beaten and arrested while selling the Daily Worker in the BMT Unio...
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James Brown (Attica defendant)
James Brown (printed alias Alsayah) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica upris...
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John Brown (New York relief delegation, 1935)
JohnBrown,representing unattached and transient workers was one of three CentralGrievanceCommittee delegates a...
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Sam Brown (Harlem, 1931)
Sam Brown was a Black Harlem worker arrested and held in the Tombs under $10,000 bail on robbery, grand larcen...
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Sam Brown (Harlem Unemployed Council, 1931)
The page 1 Harlem report says police attacked an Unemployed Council meeting at Lenox Avenue and 132nd Street a...
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Samuel Brown (New York relief, 1932)
Samuel Brown was a Black New York worker whom the Daily Worker of October 21, 1932, page 2, says was jailed fo...
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J. Brucher
J. Brucher was among six Zelgreen cafeteria pickets who had served disorderly-conduct terms and remained jaile...
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Eugenio Bruno
Eugenio Bruno was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing of a...
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Oscar Buchanan
The August 28 report names these workers as arrested during the August 25 Hunger March demonstration at the Al...
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Aisha Buckner
Released
Aisha Deborah Buckner, whose name appears in the federal court record as Aiysha Buckner, was one of the New Yo...
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Adolph Chas. F. Buehler
Adolph Chas. F. Buehler was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, N...
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Janie Bugg
Janie Bugg was a WPA teacher whom an eyewitness letter identifies as beaten and arrested by a police officer w...
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J. Buitenkant
Released
J. Buitenkant was a lawyer for the needle-trades industrial union. On Saturday morning, July 30, 1932, Judge T...
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Ernest J. Bumann
Ernest J. Bumann was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York...
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