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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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L. Fine
L. Fine was among five speakers arrested June 7, 1930 at 149th Street and Third Avenue, charged with disorderl...
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Phil Fineberg
Phil Fineberg was one of four leaders arrested at a Brooklyn unemployed-relief picket at the Sixtieth Street H...
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Meyer Fineman
Meyer Fineman was one of four fur-market workers named as arrested in the July 26, 1928 Daily Worker. Unlike t...
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Sam Finkelstein
Sam Finkelstein was an organizer for striking meat-market workers in Richmond Hill, New York. The Daily Worker...
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Julius Firestone
Released
Julius Firestone was inducted into the army in 1917. Because of his strong public stance against the war, Fire...
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Eric Fischer
Released
Eric Fischer was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting the Ed...
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Dora Fishberg
Dora Fishberg was arrested with Caroline Drew at a white-goods workers’ organizing meeting at 30th Street and...
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William Fisher
Released
William Fisher was an International Labor Defense member in Niagara Falls, New York. On August 27, 1934, a gan...
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L. Fishman
L. Fishman was individually listed as an imprisoned needle-trades worker on the September 1934 ILD roster. It...
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William Fitzgerald
William Fitzgerald was named among six NorthHarlem relief delegates arrested June23,1932 while seeking help fo...
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Paul Flakowitz
Paul Flakowitz was a Bronx grocery-union picket whom the August 15, 1928 Daily Worker individually names among...
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Louis Flann
Released
Louis Flann was a Food Workers Industrial Union picket arrested outside the public market at 8615 Twentieth Av...
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Anna Flint
Anna Flint was arrested while picketing Roth Costumes Inc., 550 Seventh Avenue, New York, on the Friday preced...
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Edwin Flogus
Named as Edwin Flogus in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group...
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Carlo M. Flumiani
Carlo M. Flumiani was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Joseph Fontana
Released
Joseph Fontana was a New York shoe-worker picket imprisoned for strike activity in 1929. The Daily Worker of N...
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Henry Forbes
Henry Forbes was one of three workers jailed on disorderly-conduct charges during a protest outside Governor L...
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Jimmy Ford
Released
Jimmy Ford was a young Black Pioneer leader arrested after protesting racial discrimination at the Bronxdale S...
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John Ford
John Ford was a Black worker jailed after photographing a segregated public bathing pool in the Bronx. The Dai...
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Harry Fox
Harry Fox signed the joint letter headed Solidarity Behind the Bars in the October 1934 Labor Defender. He and...
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Charles Fralich
Charles Fralich was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Bu...
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Leo Franklin
Leo Franklin was a furriers’ union activist convicted in the Mineola assault prosecution arising from the1926...
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Doro Frankoroff
Individually named among workers arrested during Saturday mass picketing of Brighton Beach bakeries for reduce...
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Wilhelm Heinrich Franzen
Wilhelm Heinrich Franzen was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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