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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.
Alexander Berkman
Released
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and lifelong companion of Emma Goldman whose ow...
Daniel Berrigan
Released
Daniel Joseph Berrigan, S.J., was a Jesuit priest, poet, and organizer against war and nuclear weapons. A memb...
Jerry Berrigan
Released
Jerry Berrigan was an anti-war protester who painted anti-Iraq-war messages on the Syracuse federal building d...
Edilberto Berrio Ortiz
Released
Edilberto Berrio Ortiz, known as El Gavilan, was forcibly recruited into the FARC as a child and later served...
Lee Berry
Released
Lee Berry was a Vietnam War veteran and Black Panther Party member who was hospitalized at Bronx Veterans Affa...
Bruce Beyer
Released
Bruce Beyer (1948-2019) was a Buffalo antiwar organizer and draft resister associated with the Buffalo Nine. F...
Joan Bird
Released
Joan Bird was a 19-year-old nursing student and Black Panther Party member when she was arrested on January 17...
Terry Bisson
Released
Terry Bisson was a science-fiction writer — later celebrated for "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made Out o...
Alexander Bittelman
Released
Alexander Bittelman was one of the founding members of the Communist Party USA in 1919 and the partys leading...
Leon Blum
Released
Leon Blum was a Bronx laundry worker and secretary of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union, affiliated with th...
Albert Blumberg
Released
Albert Blumberg was a Maryland-District of Columbia Communist Party leader arrested in 1954 under the Smith Ac...
Herbert X. Blyden
Released
Herbert X. Blyden was a jailhouse lawyer, prison organizer, and civil-rights activist born in St. Thomas in th...
Donna Joan Borup
In Exile
Donna Joan Borup, also known as Rebecca Ann Morgan and Donna Austopchuk, was associated with the May 19th Comm...
Kathy Boudin
Released
Kathy Boudin became a prominent figure in late–20th-century U.S. radical politics through antiwar and anti-rac...
Smith A. Boughton
Released
Smith A. Boughton was a country physician from Alps, Rensselaer County, New York and the most prominent leader...
Walter Augustus Bowe
Released
Walter Augustus Bowe was a member of the Black Liberation Front arrested in New York on February 16, 1965, wit...
Lyman R. Bradley
Released
Lyman R. Bradley, chairman of the German department at New York University and a treasurer of the JAFRC was on...
Benjamin Breger
Released
Benjamin Breger was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
William Breidert
Released
William Breidert was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Frederick Briehl
Released
Frederick Briehl was from Brooklyn, New York. Frederick Briehl was a conscientious objector imprisoned during...
William Brisbane
Released
William Brisbane was an Anti-Rent lecturer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersheriff Osman N...
Curtis Brown
Curtis Brown was a Tombs prisoner and elected inmate representative prosecuted over the October 1970 Manhattan...
John Brown
Released
John Brown was an American abolitionist whose conviction that slavery could only be ended by armed force place...
Vincent Buccafori
Released
Vincent Buccafori was an Italian immigrant shoe-worker in Brooklyn, New York who in 1911 killed his foreman 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 CenterNew York, New York
10 cases
MDC BrooklynBrooklyn, New York
9 cases