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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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George Freedman
George Freedman was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s...
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Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman was a garment worker prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The January 29, 1927 D...
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Leo Freedman
Leo Freedman was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Un...
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Helen Freedwoman
Helen Freedwoman was individually named among four women arrested July 17, 1985 at Seneca Army Depot and taken...
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Larry K. Freeman
Released
Larry K. Freeman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
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Paul Freeman
Released
Paul Freeman was a Black man convicted of murder in New York City. His defenders said the conviction rested on...
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Al Friedman
Al Friedman was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon acqu...
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Jeanne F. Friedman
Released
Jeanne F. Friedman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Nathan Friedman
Nathan Friedman was arrested at an anti-Nazi demonstration in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of April 1...
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Sam Friedman
Sam Friedman was a picket during the Retail Dairy, Fruit and Grocery Clerks Union Local 338 strike against the...
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Frimmerman (East Fourth Street tenant, 1931)
Tenant Frimmerman of 116 East Fourth Street appeared in court May 21, 1931 on an unlawful-entry charge after u...
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James Frost
James Frost was one of three workers jailed on disorderly-conduct charges during a protest outside Governor Le...
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David Frothingham
Released
David Frothingham was a journeyman printer at the New York Argus, a Democratic-Republican newspaper owned and...
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Christina Froudakis
Christina Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arre...
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George Froudakis
George Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arreste...
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Kiriaki Froudakis
Kiriaki Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arrest...
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Vasilios Froudakis
Vasilios Froudakis was one of four parents whom the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker individually names as arres...
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Max Rudolf Fuchs
Max Rudolf Fuchs was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
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Fred Furek
Fred Furek was a cafeteria-strike prisoner at Welfare Island, identified in his letter as inmate 97645, cell 6...
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Teddy Furude
Teddy Furude is individually identified as a fellow prisoner in the cafeteria-strike correspondence printed Ma...
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Thomas Gagnon
Thomas Gagnon was one of three striking painters arrested following a clash at Cooper Union in New York during...
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Faysal Galab
Faysal Galab was identified among the Lackawanna Six in FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statemen...
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Peter Galvin (Attica defendant)
Peter Galvin is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Jerry Gambill
Jerry Gambill, identified as Rarihokwats, was the unpaid editor of Akwesasne Notes and an American-born Canadi...
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