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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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Louis Rose
Louis Rose was arrested while picketing the Kitty Kelly shoe store at 40 East Fourteenth Street on Saturday, A...
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Sara Rose
Released
Sara Rose was a picket arrested when police broke the textile-trimmers’ picket line at the LouisHornickCompany...
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Sol Roseman
Released
Sol Roseman was a Food Workers Industrial Union picket arrested outside the public market at 8615 Twentieth Av...
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Jack Rosen
Released
Jack Rosen was one of four Communist election speakers arrested at Bleecker and McDougal streets in New York o...
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Rose Rosen
Rose Rosen was among cafeteria pickets arrested at the Zelgreen Cafeteria, 217 West 34th Street, New York, on...
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Harry Rosenberg
Harry Rosenberg, an active member of Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 665, was arrested April 3, 1936 during its...
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Jack Rosenberg
Jack Rosenberg, described as a twenty-one-year-old worker, was arrested with Robert Minor September 6, 1933 wh...
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Lena Rosenberg
The December 7 report names these workers among those arrested December 5 at the Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau p...
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Martin Rosenberg
The November 9 report names the seven fur-strike defendants in the Mineola prosecution whose 1927 convictions...
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Linda Rosenstock
Released
Linda Rosenstock was an eighteen-year-old participant in the April 28, 1961 New York protest against compulsor...
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Rosinari (New York cafeteria striker)
A cafeteria striker printed only as Rosinari was individually named among five strikers actually in prison whe...
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Alfonso Ross
Released
One of the 'Attica Brothers' charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment for allegedly taking hostages i...
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McGregor Ross
Named as McGregor Ross in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the grou...
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Sam Ross
Sam Ross was the Stuyvesant local organizer of the Workers Alliance in New York. The December 8, 1936 Daily Wo...
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Arthur Roth
Released
Arthur Roth was from New York, New York. Arthur Roth began serving a five-year prison sentence on July 18, 191...
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Clarence Roth
PDF page 4 names Roth with Mary Smith as beaten and arrested after protesting mistreatment of nine Home Relief...
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Fay Roth
Fay Roth was arrested with Caroline Drew at a white-goods workers’ organizing meeting at 30th Street and Madis...
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Josefine Roth
Josefine Roth was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Morris Roth
Morris Roth was arrested February 17, 1930 during a 38th Street picket. The February 19 report says the defend...
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William Roth
William Roth was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Louis Rothbaum
Louis Rothbaum was arrested at an anti-Hearst open-air meeting at Augus Street and Southern Boulevard in the B...
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Philip Rothman
Released
Philip Rothman was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and Allan S...
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A. Rothschild
A. Rothschild was individually listed as an imprisoned needle-trades worker on the September 1934 ILD roster....
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Grantham De Royal
The page 1 Harlem report says police attacked an Unemployed Council meeting at Lenox Avenue and 132nd Street a...
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