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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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Turner (Red Builder, 1931)
Turner was a Red Builder imprisoned in a New York workhouse for selling the Daily Worker in the subways. PDF p...
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Caspar Turner
Caspar Turner, a young Black man, was under arrest with a broken skull in Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn when...
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Dave Turner
Released
Dave Turner was a New York dressmaker and labor organizer who served as vice-chairman of the garment workers'...
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Verdell Turner (Attica defendant)
Verdell Turner (printed alias Zuri) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica upris...
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Sidney Turoff
Released
Sidney Turoff was convicted in December 1959 for refusing to give the House Un-American Activities Committee t...
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John Ujick
John Ujick wrote from room 213 at Ellis Island in the November 12, 1934 Daily Worker. His first-person account...
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William Ullman
Released
William Ullman, identified in the DOJ bulletin as William Ludwig Ullmann, was the subject of the first Supreme...
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Abraham Unger
Released
Abraham Unger was a New York attorney who refused to answer Senator McCarthy's questions during the McCarthy e...
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John Ury
John Ury was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York prosecutions of 1741–1742. He was a...
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Karoku Utsumi
Karoku Utsumi was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Shirley Uzin
Shirley Uzin was a Young Communist League member arrested with another young woman on February 23, 1936 while...
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Emanuel Vajtauer
Released
Emanuel Vajtauer was an editor of Obrana involved in a deportation prosecution. The May 11, 1925 Daily Worker...
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Juan Hernandez Valle
Released
Juan Hernandez Valle was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass...
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Joseph Valsky
Released
Joseph Valsky was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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John Van Steenburgh
Released
John Van Steenburgh was a Delaware County, New York 'Calico Indian' convicted of the August 7, 1845 killing of...
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Anthony J. Vanzawaren
Released
Anthony J. Vanzawaren was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university...
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Jimmy Vardy
Page 1 of the July 16, 1932 Daily Worker reports a detective took Miller shoe striker Jimmy Vardy from strike...
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Pedro Aviles Vargas
Released
Pedro Aviles Vargas was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass t...
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David Varker
David Varker was a fruit-strike organizer arrested at Bathgate in New York in the July 26, 1928 Daily Worker a...
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Robert Vickers
The newsletter’s prisoner statement dated May 30, 1975 individually names this person among incarcerated polit...
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Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy
Released
Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, along with Nachimuthu Socrates, Vijayshanthar Patpanathan, Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian,...
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John Visaritis
Released
John Visaritis was a labor defendant whom the June 8, 1927 Daily Worker describes as having received a ninety-...
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Jacob Vogel
Released
Jacob Vogel was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Max Vogel
Max Vogel was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29,...
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