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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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Sonia Shapiro
Sonia Shapiro was a striking dressmaker held on an assault accusation during the New York dress strike in Marc...
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Kyle Shaw
Released
Kyle Shaw, age 19, bombed a Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2009 and was planning a second bo...
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Patrick Shean
Released
Patrick Shean was one of five Ohrbach department-store pickets arrested in New York on Saturday, April 4, 1936...
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John Sheenan
Named as John Sheenan in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group...
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Edith Sherr
Edith Sherr was a millinery worker jailed for picketing in New York. The December 13, 1928 Daily Worker report...
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Martin Sherr
Printed page 3 reports that Socialist Party members Fred Siems and Martin Sherr were beaten by police while on...
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N. Shiek
N. Shiek is named in the Brighton bread-strike court report in the February 19, 1932 Daily Worker. One day imp...
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Morris Shiffman
Morris Shiffman was a Bronx laundry-strike picket arrested on Wednesday, May 29, 1929, at Starlight Laundry, 2...
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Bernard Shipman (Attica defendant)
Bernard Shipman (printed alias Iron Mike) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica...
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Fannie Shook
Fannie Shook was a garment striker arrested outside Needleman and Bremmer, 263 West 40th Street, New York. The...
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Bessie Siegel
Bessie Siegel was named among dress-strike pickets arrested in connection with the Jerry Dress injunction in N...
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Frank Siegel
The White Plains notice identified Frank Siegel, district organizer of the Friends of the Soviet Union, as arr...
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Fred Siems
Printed page 3 reports that Socialist Party members Fred Siems and Martin Sherr were beaten by police while on...
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Gus Sikorsky
Tenant Gus Sikorsky, of 723 East Sixth Street, was arrested at his landlord’s instance after unemployed worker...
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Bernard Silber
Released
Bernard Silber was a New York unionist prosecuted for refusing to answer House Un-American Activities Committe...
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Elly Margarethe Silberhorn
Elly Margarethe Silberhorn was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor...
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Hyman Silkowitz
Page 1 identifies a tailor arrested during the August 8, 1932 police attack on a rank-and-file clothing-worker...
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Albert Sills
Albert Sills was arrested on the rent-strike picket line at 128 East 111th Street in New York after helping pr...
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Emanuel Silver
Released
Emanuel Silver was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
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Marcia Silver
Released
Marcia Silver was a May’s Department Store striker in Brooklyn and a member of the retail-clerks union. The st...
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Morris Silver
Morris Silver was a Bronx grocery-union picket whom the August 15, 1928 Daily Worker individually names among...
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Murray Silver
Arrested Saturday July 20, 1929 at the Young Pioneer demonstration against the militarist Boy Scout jamboree,...
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Samuel Silver
Samuel Silver was a New York taxi driver arrested after asking to speak at a Bronx Taxi Drivers Union meeting...
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Harriet Silverman
Harriet Silverman, secretary of the NewYork AllAmerica AntiImperialist League, was named among five workers se...
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