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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.
Deyanna Davis
Released
Drove SUV into a state trooper during Buffalo protest (2020). Sentence: 30 months state prison. Verified via p...
Felton Davis
Released
Felton Davis is a New York Catholic Worker arrested at the Pentagon on August 1999 for refusing to leave the P...
Dorothy Day
Released
Dorothy Day was a journalist, organizer, and the co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker Movemen...
Giovanni De Cecca
Released
Giovanni De Cecca was an Italian-American Bible Student responsible for foreign-language distribution of Watch...
Peter DeMott
Released
Peter DeMott was a Catholic Worker, Vietnam War veteran, and prolific Plowshares activist. On December 13, 198...
Ronald DeRisi
Released
Ronald DeRisi of Smithtown, New York was arrested on October 19, 2018 after leaving more than ten threatening...
Floyd Dell
Released
Floyd Dell was a Greenwich Village novelist, Chicago Renaissance critic, and managing editor of The Masses (19...
Eugene Dennis
Released
Eugene Dennis, born Francis Xavier Waldron and also known as Tim Ryan and Paul Walsh, was a Communist Party US...
Dr. Rafil Dhafir
Released
Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir was an American Iraqi-born physician, who founded the charity Help the Needy, to respond t...
Ralph DiGia
Released
Ralph DiGia was a New York City accountant and lifelong pacifist who refused to register for the draft in Worl...
Andrew Dmytryshyn
Released
Andrew Dmytryshyn was a leader of the Ukrainian American Fraternal Union, a section of the International Worke...
Joseph Patrick Doherty
Released
Joseph Patrick Doherty was a Provisional IRA volunteer born January 20, 1955 in the New Lodge area of Belfast....
Jack Donald
Released
Jack Donald was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unemp...
Steven Donziger
Released
Steven Robert Donziger is an American environmental and human-rights lawyer who represented Indigenous peoples...
Michael R. Dougherty
Released
Michael R. Dougherty was one of the D.C. Nine, who entered Dow Chemical’s Washington offices on March 22, 1969...
Mackenzie Drechsler
Released
Mackenzie Drechsler, 19, of Ontario NY, charged June 30, 2020 with arson for the May 30, 2020 burning of two v...
Michelle Duclos
Released
Michelle Duclos was a Montreal broadcaster and freelance writer associated with the Quebec independence moveme...
Robert Dugarm
Robert Dugarm was an Attica prisoner prosecuted over the September 1971 prison rebellion. Attica News identifi...
Anne Dunham
Released
Age 23 at indictment; native of Pelham, NY, graduate of Ursuline Academy who attended Marymount College and th...
William F. Dunne
Released
William F. Dunne was a veteran labor journalist and editor of the Daily Worker and a founding member of the Am...
Adam Durand
Released
Adam Durand is an animal-rights advocate and videographer who documented conditions at Wegmans Egg Farm and pa...
Max Eastman
Released
Max Eastman was a poet, journalist, and the editor of The Masses, the radical New York socialist literary maga...
Yasser Ebrahim
Released
CCR’s named photograph identifies this person as a Turkmen v. Ashcroft client in Alexandria, Egypt. Its accoun...
Becky Edelsohn
Released
Becky Edelsohn was an American anarchist agitator. Born in 1892 in Riga in the Russian Empire to a Latvian-Jew...
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