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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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Eddie Stark
Eddie Stark was arrested February 17, 1930 during a 38th Street picket. The February 19 report says the defend...
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Louis Stark
Louis Stark was a garment striker arrested outside Needleman and Bremmer, 263 West 40th Street, New York. The...
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Friedrich S. Staudinger
Friedrich S. Staudinger was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, o...
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Ben Stein
Ben Stein was individually named among nine people arrested for street speaking at Eastern Parkway and Utica A...
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Carl Otto Stein
Carl Otto Stein was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...
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Herman Stein
Herman Stein was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Un...
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M. Stern (Kitty Kelly picket)
M. Stern was arrested with A. Kublien Monday, June 1, 1936 at the Thirty-fourth Street Kitty Kelly shoe store...
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Dora Stern
Page 5 individually names Dora Stern among eleven pickets arrested the previous morning, December 27, 1929, at...
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Morris Stern
Page 1 reports shoe-union member William Strauss (headline Straus) shot in the lung and arm by a policeman dur...
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Ethel Stevens
Ethel Stevens was a district Young Communist League organizer involved in the North Tonawanda, New York strugg...
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Steve Stevenson
Steve Stevenson was imprisoned for violating an injunction during a New York cafeteria strike. The Daily Worke...
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Al Stewart
Released
Al Stewart was named among May's Department Store strike pickets arrested February 22, 1936 at 510 Fulton Stre...
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Audrey Stewart
Released
Audrey Stewart painted anti-Iraq-war messages on the Syracuse federal building during Operation Desert Fox (De...
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William Stokes (Attica defendant)
William Stokes is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendan...
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Jacob Stoll
Jacob Stoll was a Custom Tailoring Workers Industrial Union executive committee member and leader of the eight...
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Benny Stomps
Benny Stomps was named as a Black worker arrested when New York police broke up a Harlem welcome demonstration...
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Al Stone
Al Stone was a militant picketer in the New York dressmakers strike. Police raided the Brooklyn strike headqua...
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Stopes (Red Builder, 1931)
Stopes was a Red Builder imprisoned in a New York workhouse for selling the Daily Worker in the subways. PDF p...
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Murray Strauss
Murray Strauss was individually named among Ansonia Bootery shoe-salesmen's strike pickets arrested in New Yor...
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Herbert Herman Studt
Herbert Herman Studt was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
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Algernon S. Sullivan
Released
Algernon S. Sullivan was a New York lawyer and counsel for Captain Baker of the privateer Savannah. A Septembe...
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Elliott Sullivan
Released
Elliott Sullivan, a New York actor, was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 after refusing to tell the Hous...
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Richard Sullivan (Albany hunger march, 1931)
The August 28 report names these workers as arrested during the August 25 Hunger March demonstration at the Al...
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Thomas R. Sullivan
Released
Thomas R. Sullivan was a Socialist and Christian Scientist from New York, New York. Thomas R. Sullivan was sen...
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