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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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Daniel Burgevin
Released
Daniel Burgevin, a Trumansburg, New York peace activist, participated in the October 25, 2012 Hancock Field dr...
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Isaac L. Burhans
Released
Isaac L. Burhans was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Un...
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John Daly Burk
Released
John Daly Burk was an Irish-born playwright, historian, and editor of New York’s Time Piece. Federal authoriti...
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Thomas Burk
Released
Thomas Burk was an Irish immigrant ferryman arrested in November 1795 after a dispute with New York alderman G...
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John Burke (Brooklyn free-speech defendant, 1935)
John Burke was individually named among nine people arrested for street speaking at Eastern Parkway and Utica...
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Karl Hans Burkhardt
Karl Hans Burkhardt was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New Y...
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Arthur Burns
Arthur Burns was arrested on December 5, 1932, at a meeting of unemployed workers seeking relief at the Home R...
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Fred Burns (Foltis-Fischer picket, 1933)
The March 4, 1933 report names these four pickets as arrested, fingerprinted and held for investigation pendin...
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Jack Burns
The Daily Worker, February 27, 1933, page 1 names Jack Burns, Jack Cory, A. Thomas, Klein and Kovacs as five p...
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Anson K. Burrill
Released
Anson K. Burrill was one of the first Anti-Rent prisoners, prosecuted under New York's new law against appeari...
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John Burtch
Released
John Burtch was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersh...
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John Buschel
Released
John Buschel was the business agent of Local 164 of the Amalgamated Food Workers. The May 31, 1929 Daily Worke...
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Lloyd Butler (Harlem Youth Federation defendant)
Lloyd Butler was named among the Harlem Youth Federation five arrested May16,1968 and charged with conspiracie...
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Peter Butler
Released
Peter Butler was incarcerated at Attica in 1971 and helped establish the Attica Liberation Faction. The prison...
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Mario Buzzi
Released
Mario Buzzi was an Italian anti-fascist associated with Carlo Tresca’s newspaper Il Martello. He was arrested...
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Louis Cabrera
Louis Cabrera is individually identified as an incarcerated Tombs representative. Right On! names the seven el...
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Alfred Cain Jr.
Alfred Cain Jr. was one of three Brooklyn Black Panthers prosecuted after an August 1969 accusation involving...
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Anthony Caldarello
Anthony Caldarello was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in...
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Winslow Cameron
Winslow Cameron was one of three Black young men, reported as twenty-one to twenty-two years old, picked up at...
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Carleton Campbell
Released
Carleton Campbell was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Charles Campbell (Harlem unemployed worker)
The April 8 report names these unemployed Harlem workers as arrested Saturday, April 4, 1931 in the Garveyite...
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Louis Campbell
Louis Campbell was named among six NorthHarlem relief delegates arrested June23,1932 while seeking help for an...
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William Campbell
Released
William Campbell was a Black worker arrested at the Harlem Unemployed Council headquarters, 353 Lenox Avenue,...
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Carlos Canales
Workers World reports that Workplace Project organizer Carlos Canales was arrested in Freeport, New York in 20...
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