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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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Steve Merkel (Attica defendant)
Steve Merkel is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Pete Merta
Named as Pete Merta in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group l...
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Stephen Mesarosh
Released
Stephen Mesarosh was arrested while distributing Trade Union Educational League leaflets near a Long Island ni...
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Elizabeth Meuser
Elizabeth Meuser was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
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Waldemar Meuser
Waldemar Meuser was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...
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William Meyer
Released
William Meyer was a disabled Unemployed Council leader in Mineola, Long Island. The November 12, 1934 Daily Wo...
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Ignatz Mezei
Released
Ignatz Mezei was a Buffalo carpenter and officer of the International Workers Order’s Hungarian lodge. After r...
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Jacob Milborne
Jacob Milborne, Leisler’s son-in-law, was arrested and imprisoned during the political conflict surrounding Ja...
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Robert Miles (Attica defendant)
Robert Miles is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Sam Milgrom
Released
Sam Milgrom was the national executive secretary of the International Workers Order. During the campaign to de...
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Ida Miller
Individually named among workers arrested during Saturday mass picketing of Brighton Beach bakeries for reduce...
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Jacob Miller
Released
Jacob Miller was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Julia Miller
Julia Miller was arrested April 25, 1929 while distributing May Day leaflets near Pennsylvania Station at 32nd...
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Leonard Miller
Released
Leonard Miller was a New York dressmaker prosecuted with Dave Turner during the Needleman and Bremmer strike....
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May Miller
Released
May Miller was a young Communist arrested in New York City in 1930 for distributing anti-militarist leaflets t...
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Sam Miller (New York jobless demonstration, 1934)
Sam Miller was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette Str...
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Victoria Miller
Victoria Miller was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon...
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Chin Hong Ming
Released
Chin Hong Ming was a Chinese-American convicted in federal court in New York in 1954 under the Trading With th...
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Simon Minor
Simon Minor was a Black worker and Georgia chain-gang survivor living in Hempstead, Long Island. Police arrest...
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John Mirabel
Page 4 names John Mirabel as another defendant in the Adele Cafeteria strike prosecution in New York. It repor...
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Clara Mishkin
Released
Clara Mishkin was jailed in New York for distributing leaflets denouncing police killings and brutality. The D...
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John Mitchell (Attica defendant)
John Mitchell (printed alias the Rock) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica up...
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Robert Mitchell (New York laundry striker, 1933)
Robert Mitchell, a Black International Labor Defense member, was arrested while active in the New York laundry...
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Ignatz Mizher
Released
Ignatz Mizher was a member of the Communist Party from New York City. Ignatz Mizher served a sentence in Sing...
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