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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.
Marilyn Buck
Released
Marilyn Buck was a Texas-born, white anti-imperialist revolutionary, the only white member of the Black Libera...
Safiya Bukhari
Released
Safiya Bukhari, born Bernice Jones in The Bronx in 1950, was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Pan...
Thomas Bunker
Released
Thomas Bunker was a marine worker prosecuted with William Trajer and John Soderberg during the Independent Tid...
Edwin Berry Burgum
Released
Edwin Berry Burgum, a professor of English at New York University and a literary critic who sat on the JAFRC b...
Daniel Burns
Released
Daniel Burns was one of the St. Patrick's Four — Catholic Worker activists Peter DeMott, Teresa Grady, Clare G...
Ethel Byrne
Released
Ethel Byrne was a registered nurse and one of the three principal operators of the Brownsville birth-control c...
Harold I. Cammer
Released
Harold I. Cammer was a New York labor attorney held in contempt of court for his conduct in defending the fur-...
David Campbell
Released
David Campbell is being unjustly imprisoned for events that unfolded at the protest of a New York City alt-rig...
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores
Released
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, nephew of Cilia Flores and step-nephew of Nicolas Maduro, was arrested in Port-au...
Amber Canavan
Released
Amber Canavan is an animal-rights activist and Animal Protection and Rescue League volunteer. She investigated...
Angelo Cappelo
Released
Angelo Cappelo was prosecuted during the 1930 unemployment protests in New York. In Rochester, he was arrested...
Edward S. Carey
Released
Edward S. Carey was from New York, New York. Edward S. Carey was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento...
Stokely Carmichael
Released
Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) was a Trinidadian-American civil rights organizer who became chairman of...
Arthur Caron
Released
Arthur Caron was a French-Canadian-born anarchist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. Born on D...
Donato Carrillo
Released
Donato Carrillo was born in Sant'Agata di Puglia, Foggia, Italy (his Italian political-police file names his p...
Owen Carron
Released
Owen Carron was the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP who succeeded Bobby Sands. He was jailed in Buffalo after at...
Ruth Carter
Released
Black liberation activist charged as a New York 8+ defendant in the October 18, 1984 federal RICO indictment a...
Anderson Chamapuro Dogirama
Released
Anderson Chamapuro Dogirama, known as El Tigre or Dairon, was forcibly recruited into the FARC as a child and...
Roger Champen
Released
Roger Champen was one of the Attica Brothers — prisoners indicted after the September 1971 uprising at New Yor...
Len Chandler
Released
Len Chandler was a musician who kept a fragment of Marc Edelman’s draft card after the November 1965 Union Squ...
George Blake Charney
Released
George Blake Charney was a New York labor lawyer and a leading Communist Party USA figure in the postwar perio...
Coltrane Chimurenga
Released
Coltrane Chimurenga, born Randolph Simms, was a Black liberation organizer, Pan-Africanist, and field marshal...
Marjorie Chodorov
Released
Marjorie Chodorov was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aid...
Judith Clark
Released
Judith Alice Clark was a former Weather Underground organizer and one of the four May 19th Communist Organizat...
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