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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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William Durrell
Released
William Durrell was the publisher and editor of the Mount Pleasant Register who was charged with violations of...
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Dan D’Avanzi
Dan D’Avanzi was among Brooklyn shoe workers reported convicted of assault on May 6, 1930. Sentencing was anno...
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Virginia Earl
Virginia Earl was a member of the Young Communist League arrested on Sunday, February 16, 1936, outside St. Se...
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Moses Earle
Released
Moses Earle was an elderly tenant farmer at whose Andes, Delaware County, New York farm Undersheriff Osman N....
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Ebhramanollo
Ebhramanollo, a fireman aboard the Standard Oil tanker Comeric at Tenth Street, Long Island City, was individu...
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Marc Edelman
Released
A cabinetmaker who was one of five men who publicly burned their draft cards at Union Square, New York City, o...
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Pearl Edison
Released
Pearl Edison was a May's Department Store employee in Brooklyn who helped organize its workers with Elsie Mono...
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Joseph Eduk
Released
Joseph Eduk was a shoe-strike arrestee whose detention and beating were reported in the January 14, 1930 Daily...
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Theodore Eggeling
Released
Theodore Eggeling was a German seaman active against Nazism in New York. Nazi supporters attacked him for wear...
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Richard Eichenlaub
Richard Eichenlaub was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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E. Eisbart
The June 9 report individually names these people arrested during the Saturday outdoor protest at the Schlom a...
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J. Eisen
The June 9 report individually names these people arrested during the Saturday outdoor protest at the Schlom a...
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Bertha Elkins
Released
Bertha Elkins was a picket in the 1909 New York shirtwaist strike. Contemporary newspapers describe her releas...
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Rose Elkus
Rose Elkus was a dress striker in New York. The Daily Worker of March 13, 1931, page 1, names Sarah Spewack, R...
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Frances Ellis
Frances Ellis is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arre...
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Ernest F. Elmhurst
Released
Ernest F. Elmhurst was a German-born antisemitic writer whose book The World Hoax appeared with an introductio...
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Joseph Elwell
Joseph Elwell was among those arrested at the May 26, 1934 relief demonstration at 50 Lafayette Street in New...
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Bunzo Endo
Bunzo Endo was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
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I. Enray
Released
I. Enray was named among May's Department Store strike pickets arrested February 22, 1936 at 510 Fulton Street...
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Lawrence Epps
Lawrence Epps was a prisoner at New York’s Shawangunk Correctional Facility who wrote a first-person account o...
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Charlie Epson
Charlie Epson was one of three Black young men, reported as twenty-one to twenty-two years old, picked up at 1...
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Carl Erickson
Scandinavian seaman Carl Erickson was critically ill in the Ellis Island hospital when the March 28, 1931 Dail...
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M. Estrada
Released
M. Estrada was jailed after protesting the film Under the Texas Moon in New York in July 1930. The Daily Worke...
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Richard Evans
Released
Richard Evans was a member of Albany Meeting who spent seven days imprisoned at Jamesville in1971 for a protes...
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