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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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Rocco Volpe
Released
Rocco Volpe was one of the five Utica unemployed defendants in the Utica, New York unemployed-council case. Fi...
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Sebastian Vonderbank
Sebastian Vonderbank was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
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William Vroman
Released
William Vroman was part of the anti-rent community on Blenheim Hill, New York, where tenant farmers resisted t...
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Gert Waage
Gert Waage was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
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Henry Waage
Henry Waage was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 2...
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May Wade
Released
May Wade was named among May's Department Store strike pickets arrested February 22, 1936 at 510 Fulton Street...
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E. Wagner
The March 25, 1930 report says the demonstrators against Harry Eisman’s recommitment were actually serving ten...
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Erwin Wagner
Erwin Wagner was an organizer of unemployed workers in Westchester County, New York. The Daily Worker of Decem...
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Martin De Wal
Named as Martin De Wal in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the grou...
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Charles Walfish
Charles Walfish was a Local 35 member prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The January 29, 1927...
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Harold Walker
Harold Walker was an Attica prisoner, jailhouse lawyer and vice-president of the Attica Survivors Committee. H...
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Ida Wall
Ida Wall was among three dress-strike pickets arrested in connection with the injunction at Jerry Dress, 500 S...
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John Wallace (Attica defendant)
John Wallace is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendants...
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Max Wallman
Max Wallman was a needle-trades worker individually identified in the June 8, 1927 Daily Worker’s report of ar...
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Gerhard Paul Walter
Gerhard Paul Walter was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Hans Martin Walter
Hans Martin Walter was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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Wanda Wareham
Released
Wanda Wareham was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister and the spouse of defendant Roger Wareham. She was confine...
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David Warfield
David Warfield was a Black Harlem worker arrested and held in the Tombs under $10,000 bail on robbery, grand l...
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John J. Warner
Released
John J. Warner was a tenant farmer in the anti-rent community on Blenheim Hill, New York. During the 1845 crac...
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Jeffrey Watkins
AnimalPeople April1997 individually reports Jeffrey Watkins began serving a seven-month sentence on March1,199...
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Ruby Weber
Printed page 2 reports thirty-three Workers Unemployed Union members were arrested during the Easter Sunday Fi...
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Harold Wechsler
Harold Wechsler was individually named among Ansonia Bootery shoe-salesmen's strike pickets arrested in New Yo...
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Ira M. Wechsler
Released
Ira M. Wechsler was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Herbert Weidehoff
Herbert Weidehoff was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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