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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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Efim Kertz
The September 1920 One Big Union Monthly names Efim Kertz among nineteen IWW members then held at Ellis Island...
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William Keteltas
Released
William Keteltas was a Republican lawyer jailed by the New York Assembly in 1796 after challenging officials o...
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Ephraim Kierty
Named as Ephraim Kierty in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the gro...
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Samuel Kimmel
Samuel Kimmel was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing of a...
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Darryl King
Released
Black ex-serviceman arrested in 1970 and convicted of killing a New York policeman during a robbery, sentenced...
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Stanley King
Stanley King was a defendant prosecuted following the 1970 rebellion at the Manhattan House of Detention, know...
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T. R. Kinget
Released
T. R. Kinget was a physician prosecuted under the Comstock laws in the late 1880s for selling his book "Medica...
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Ottmar Kirchner
Ottmar Kirchner was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...
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Alex Kisil
Released
Named as Alex Kisil in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group l...
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Sol Kitain
Sol Kitain, a secretary of Upholstery Workers International Union Local 140, was one of five defendants arrest...
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S. Kitty
The December 7 report names these workers among those arrested December 5 at the Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau p...
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Esther Kleiman
Esther Kleiman was a New York participant in a fur workers’ visit supporting the 1926 Passaic textile strike....
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Sylvia Kleiman
Sylvia Kleiman was a New York participant in a fur workers’ visit supporting the 1926 Passaic textile strike....
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Isabel Kleimon
Arrested November 7, 1929 while distributing leaflets to soldiers at the Fourteenth Street Armory. Jefferson M...
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Dan Klein
Dan Klein was one of four May’s Department Store strikers arrested December 28, 1935 and tried on rioting char...
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Jack Klein
Released
Jack Klein was one of three labor activists jailed for speaking to workers of the Coney Island Corporation at...
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Rose Klein
Released
Rose Klein was one of three labor activists jailed for speaking to workers of the Coney Island Corporation at...
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Pearl Kleinman
Pearl Kleinman was a dress striker in New York. The Daily Worker of March 13, 1931, page 1, names Sarah Spewac...
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Max Klenner
Max Klenner was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 2...
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Myer Klig
Released
Myer Klig was a Russian-born labor activist who had lived permanently in the United States since 1941. Immigra...
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Herbert Kline
Herbert Kline is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arre...
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Jack Kline
Jack Kline was a Fur Dyers Union Unemployment Council organizer, individually named among eight workers arrest...
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Isidore Klinghofer
Released
Isidore Klinghofer was arrested July 31, 1929 for speaking at an antiwar preparatory meeting at 27th Street an...
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Michael Klueger
Pages 1-2 name Leo Loskowitz, David Newburg (also printed Newberg), and Michael Klueger as arrested around or...
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