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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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Glenn Gan
Glenn Gan was one of the UN 2 antiwar protesters prosecuted after an April 30, 1980 demonstration inside the U...
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Fred Gardner
Fred Gardner was president of Hospital Employes Union Local 171 of the Building Service Employes International...
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James Garfield
Page 1 identifies James Garfield with Louis Campbell and Arthur Williams as four Black Harlem League of Strugg...
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Peter Garmolinsky
Peter Garmolinsky was an unemployed New York worker seeking additional relief beyond thirty cents a day. The D...
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John Garrett (Harlem Youth Federation defendant)
John Garrett was named among the Harlem Youth Federation five arrested May16,1968 and charged with conspiracie...
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Steve Garrett (Attica defendant)
Steve Garrett (printed alias El-Kareem) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica u...
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P. Gasigan
P. Gasigan was among five speakers arrested June 7, 1930 at 149th Street and Third Avenue, charged with disord...
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Murray Gassman
Murray Gassman was arrested during the All White Laundry strike at 46 West 98th Street, New York. Page 3 of th...
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Lena Gautman
Lena Gautman was a New York fur worker imprisoned in the 1927 fur-strike prosecution. The May 16, 1928 Daily W...
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Antoine Gazda
Released
Antoine Gazda was an Austrian gun inventor, reported as forty-seven in the March 19, 1942 Pampa News. Citing t...
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Anthony Gazzola
Anthony Gazzola was one of six pickets arrested September 12, 1935 outside Bickford’s restaurant, 215 West For...
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William Gegner
Released
William Gegner was a Food Workers Industrial Union striker arrested while picketing Sherman Cafeterias and the...
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H. Gelber (London Dress picket, 1932)
H. Gelber was one of five pickets arrested outside London Dress Company, 245 Seventh Avenue, New York, on the...
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Abraham Gelerter
Released
Abraham Gelerter was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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W. D. Gelsleicter
W. D. Gelsleicter is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers...
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Emanuel George
Emanuel George, an Ohio striking miner, was named among five workers serving five-day sentences for the July3,...
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David A. Gersh
Released
David A. Gersh was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war res...
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Rose Gertz
Released
Rose Gertz was one of five workers arrested during a demonstration outside the North Harlem Relief Station at...
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Benjamin Gidow
Released
Benjamin Gidow was a leader of the American Socialist Party and a founder of the Communist Party from New York...
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Herbert Gierse
Herbert Gierse was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Ida Gierse
Ida Gierse was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
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Joseph T. Gilchrist
Released
Known as Joe Gilchrist, a former Cornell student (there during Fr. Daniel Berrigan's chaplaincy) from Ithaca,...
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Mario Giletti
Released
Mario Giletti was an Italian-American anti-fascist who served nine months at the Comstock (Great Meadow) priso...
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Robert Gill (Attica defendant)
Robert Gill is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants....
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