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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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Carol Hill
Released
Carol Hill was a Black grand-jury resister and paralegal who worked for William Kunstler on Christopher King's...
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Oscar Hill
Oscar Hill was arrested after police attacked the mass picket line supporting AmericanFarmer marine wireless o...
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Harold Hodari Simmons
The newsletter’s prisoner statement dated May 30, 1975 individually names this person among incarcerated polit...
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Van Hoesen (New York railroad strike, 1877)
The July 17, 1934 historical press review quotes a New York Times headline from the 1877 railroad strike descr...
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Edward Hoffman
Edward Hoffman was a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 in New York. The Daily...
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John Hoffman
John Hoffman was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buffa...
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Werner Hofling
Werner Hofling was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Anton Hofstetter
Anton Hofstetter was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
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Fritz Holm
Named as Fritz Holm in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group l...
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Hjalmar Holm
Named as Hjalmar Holm in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group...
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Tom Holmes (Harlem cafeteria, 1934)
Tom Holmes was one of six defendants prosecuted for picketing the Empire Cafeteria at 125th Street and Lenox A...
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Michel Holowach
Released
Michel Holowach was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Heinrich Anton C. Von Holt
Heinrich Anton C. Von Holt was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor...
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Susanna Von Holt
Susanna Von Holt was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
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Ben Holtszman
Ben Holtszman, a union mattress worker, was one of five defendants arrested in the William Intner Mattress Com...
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Louis Holzer
Released
Louis Holzer was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union member detained in the prosecution arisin...
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Mollie Horn
Mollie Horn was one of four leaders arrested at a Brooklyn unemployed-relief picket at the Sixtieth Street Hom...
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Saul H. Housman
Released
Saul H. Housman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Milton Howard
Milton Howard was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s U...
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William Howe
Page 2 names William Howe, a seaman, among four workers arrested during the July 26 Bremen anti-Nazi demonstra...
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Jacob Hrikorash
Jacob Hrikorash was arrested at Communist Party headquarters in Cortland, New York, according to the 1920 cong...
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Clavin Hudson (Attica defendant)
Clavin Hudson (printed alias Hutch) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica upris...
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R. D. Hudson
Released
R. D. Hudson was secretary of the NewYork branch of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Police arrested him a...
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Theodore Huebener
Released
Theodore Huebener was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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