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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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Charles Cook (Buffalo Communist worker)
Page 2's September 11 Buffalo dispatch individually identifies Black Communist worker Charles Cook arrested af...
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Charles Cooper
Charles Cooper was arrested at the Yonkers police station after going there to inquire about other arrested wo...
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Dora Cooper
Dora Cooper was one of four young Communists sentenced by Magistrate Mark Rudich in Coney Island Court on May...
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Richard Cooper
Richard Cooper was among six Black Civilian Conservation Corps recruits interviewed after five days’ imprisonm...
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Juanito Cordoba-Bermudez
Released
Juanito Cordoba-Bermudez, FARC 57th Front member, was extradited and pleaded guilty to material-support conspi...
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Harry Cornelius
Harry Cornelius was imprisoned for violating an injunction during a New York cafeteria strike. The Daily Worke...
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Jack Corrigan
Released
Jack Corrigan was a twenty-year-old New York University student, library clerk and American Students Union mem...
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Jack Cory
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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Leonard Costa
Leonard Costa, a Rochester Unemployed Council organizer, was arrested in the street and beaten in jail accordi...
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Ronald Coyne (Attica defendant)
Ronald Coyne (printed alias Big Red) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica upri...
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Timothy Crady
Released
Timothy Crady was an Irish immigrant ferryman arrested in November 1795 after a dispute with New York alderman...
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William Craig
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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Julius Crane
The Daily Worker of March 1, 1934, page 3, identifies Julius Crane as an organizer of the United Shoe and Leat...
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Daniel Crawford
Released
Daniel Crawford was one of the Fort Worth Five, five Irish-American men jailed in Texas in 1972 for refusing t...
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Willie Crawford
Willie Crawford was detained by Buffalo police on September 3, 1970. A contemporary National Committee to Comb...
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Albert Creutzberg
Albert Creutzberg was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New Yor...
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Paul B. Crosbie
Paul B. Crosbie was a militant veteran jailed June 27, 1934 with twenty-five other workers while demonstrating...
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Core D'Amicis
Core D'Amicis was among those arrested at the May 26, 1934 relief demonstration at 50 Lafayette Street in New...
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Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers ar...
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Allah Dahu (Attica defendant)
Allah Dahu is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants....
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Ward Clarence Daisenberger
Released
Ward Clarence Daisenberger was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during Wo...
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Louis Daniels
Released
Louis Daniels was one of five Ohrbach department-store pickets arrested in New York on Saturday, April 4, 1936...
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Peter Darck
Released
Peter Darck was a New York window cleaner and union organizer. He belonged to the Window Cleaners Protective U...
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John Darlington
Released
John Darlington was a seamen’s-strike picket attacked with a razor by a strikebreaker on the NewYork waterfron...
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