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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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Howard Schoenfeld
Released
Howard Schoenfeld was an American fiction writer, editor, and pacifist who resisted conscription before the Un...
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Wilhelmine Marie Schoenherr
Wilhelmine Marie Schoenherr was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbo...
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Charles G. Schonberg
Charles G. Schonberg was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
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Jovert Schouter
Jovert Schouter was an unemployed marine worker prosecuted in New York following a demonstration at the Seamen...
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Reinhard Schuermann
Reinhard Schuermann was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Sol Schulman
Sol Schulman was a needle-trades union militant subjected to extrajudicial confinement in New York. The Daily...
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Edward Schultz
Edward Schultz was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buf...
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Gisela Schumacher
Gisela Schumacher was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Israel Schwartz
Released
Israel Schwartz was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting the...
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Joshua Schwartz
Released
Joshua Schwartz was an animal-rights activist arrested with Benjamin Persky and Jennifer Greenberg for damagin...
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Ferdinand A. Von Schwedler
Ferdinand A. Von Schwedler was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor...
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Mark Scibilia-Carver
Released
Mark Scibilia-Carver is a peace activist from Trumansburg, New York who participated in the October 2012 prote...
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Nicola Scorcia
Nicola Scorcia was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Frank Scorry
Frank Scorry, thirty-four, was a New York cafeteria striker who chose an actual ten-day jail commitment instea...
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Sylvester Scott
Released
Sylvester Scott was an International Labor Defense supporter whose release from Rikers Island on May 1, 1936 f...
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Miriam Zeitlin Seborer
In Exile
Miriam Zeitlin Seborer was a physician, former Census Bureau employee and Navy WAVES veteran. She left the Uni...
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Oscar Seborer
In Exile
Oscar Seborer was an American electrical engineer and Army veteran who worked at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos duri...
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David Segal
The Nuclear Resister identifies David Segal as imprisoned at Fort Dix in March 2006 after an anti-recruitment...
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Carlos Rolando Segura
Carlos Rolando Segura was a Guatemalan student who spent time in New York’s Greenwich Village during the 1960s...
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Omar Seku
Released
Omar Seku was one of the Attica Brothers — the prisoners the state of New York prosecuted after the September...
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Leo Seligman
Leo Seligman was one of six defendants prosecuted for picketing the Empire Cafeteria at 125th Street and Lenox...
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Joseph Sgovio
Joseph Sgovio was a district organizer of the Trade Union Unity League and a member of the Unemployed Councils...
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Jack Shaffron
Jack Shaffron, also printed Shafron in the same item, was a leader of the Superior Silk Mill store strike at 4...
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Lucia Shapiro
Released
Lucia Shapiro was one of 26 demonstrators arrested at City Hall Park in New York on May 3, 1960 for refusing t...
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