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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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Helen Lynch
Page 3 reports that Helen Lynch, John Murphy and ten other Lower Bronx Unemployed Council members were release...
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Jerry Lynch
Jerry Lynch was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette St...
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William Lynch
Released
William Lynch was a New York longshoreman jailed for contempt in 1954 for his part in an International Longsho...
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Ronald Lyons
Released
One of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping/unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 1971 rebellion were dismi...
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Kendell Lytton
Kendell Lytton was a Black Harlem worker held in Sing Sing’s death cell when the Daily Worker reported his Int...
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Leon Mabille
Released
Leon Mabille was a French worker and member of the Amalgamated Food Workers who worked as a cook in New York....
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Larry Mack
Released
Larry Mack was the section leader of the Queens branch of the Black Panther Party and a fugitive defendant in...
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Otto Macke
Otto Macke was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
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Desmond Mackin
Desmond Mackin was an Irish republican detained in New York during British extradition proceedings. Revolution...
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Thomas Oliver Maguire
Released
Thomas Oliver Maguire was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IRA....
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Frank Mahalik
Named as Frank Mahalik in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the grou...
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Carl J. Maier
Released
Carl J. Maier was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Julius Mailman
Released
Julius Mailman was a New York fur worker and union activist prosecuted after the 1926 furriers’ strike. He and...
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Max Major
MaxMajor, identified as an AmericanIndian veteran, WorkersExServicemen’sLeague member and UnemployedCouncil le...
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Ray Malak
Ray Malak was a veteran and a defendant in the Buffalo Nine antiwar sanctuary prosecution. Bruce Beyer’s first...
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Mariano Maldano (Attica defendant)
Mariano Maldano is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defenda...
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Rubin Malin
Released
Rubin Malin was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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John Malina (New York picket, 1929)
The report names these workers as arrested November 6, 1929 while picketing, charged with disorderly conduct....
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Noureddine Malki
Released
Noureddine Malki, whose real name is not known, became a U.S. citizen using a false identity and later became...
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John Maller
Released
John Maller was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Oscar Mallief
The November 9 report names the seven fur-strike defendants in the Mineola prosecution whose 1927 convictions...
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Albon Platt Man
Released
Albon Platt Man was a World War II conscientious objector imprisoned at Danbury and Lewisburg. He participated...
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Vincent Manchica
Vincent Manchica was a shoe worker and picket seriously wounded in a stabbing attributed by the Daily Worker t...
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Benjamin Mandel
Released
Benjamin Mandel was the business manager of the Daily Worker, jailed in the 1927 obscenity prosecution over Da...
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