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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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John Wilson
Page 2 identifies John Wilson as arrested Friday night, July 26, 1935 at a protest at the Forty-Seventh Street...
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William Wilson (Attica defendant)
William Wilson (printed alias Xmielex) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica up...
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Sol Winick
Sol Winick was one of four leaders arrested at a Brooklyn unemployed-relief picket at the Sixtieth Street Home...
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Jack Winkler
Jack Winkler was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon acq...
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Nathan Winkofsky
Young Pioneer Nathan Winkofsky, historically aged sixteen, was jailed after throwing tomatoes at police carryi...
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Winters (New York fish-strike picket, 1932)
A picket identified only as Winters was arrested outside the struck fish shop at 973 East 165th Street and hel...
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Asher Winzowicz
Asher Winzowicz was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Bu...
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Nick Woles
Released
Nick Woles was a Brooklyn worker and longtime janitor evicted from 750 Driggs Avenue on Monday, May 18, 1931....
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Robert Wolf
Released
Robert Wolf was a writer. Robert Wolf was arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Street demonstration against U.S....
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Charles Wolfish
Released
Charles Wolfish was a New York cloakmaker imprisoned during the garment workers’ labor struggles of the 1920s....
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Peter Wolsky
Peter Wolsky was a member of the North Tonawanda Unemployed Committee. The Daily Worker of December 30, 1931,...
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Albert Wong
Released
Albert Wong was the business manager and former managing editor of the New York China Daily News. Federal pros...
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Harold Wood
Harold Wood was arrested during a New York demonstration for Sacco and Vanzetti and imprisoned for distributin...
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Hugh Workman
Hugh Workman was named as a Black worker arrested when New York police broke up a Harlem welcome demonstration...
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Richard Wright (Attica defendant)
Richard Wright (printed alias Rico) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica upris...
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Franz Wunschel
Franz Wunschel was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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William Wyath
William Wyath was among six Black Civilian Conservation Corps recruits interviewed after five days’ imprisonme...
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Ignacy Wysycki
Released
Ignacy Wysycki was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. C...
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William Yates
William Yates was a veteran and a defendant in the Buffalo Nine antiwar sanctuary prosecution. Bruce Beyer’s f...
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Anthony Yenner
Anthony Yenner was named among workers facing court proceedings in the grocery-strike report published May 24,...
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Steve Yip
Steve Yip was one of the UN 2 antiwar protesters prosecuted after an April 30, 1980 demonstration inside the U...
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Nadarasa Yogarasa
Released
Sahilal Sarachandran, Nadarasa Yogarasa, Sathajhan Sarachandran, and Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam were involved...
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Charles Yogoda
Arrested May 24, 1933 at a Brooklyn open-air meeting opposing eviction of a family with six children; charged...
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Lillian Youngleman
Lillian Youngleman was arrested with Rose Rosen after chaining herself to a railing outside Ohrbach's departme...
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