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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.

791Documented
24In custody
720Released
2Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1950s 134 1910s 129 1970s 83 1930s 65 1960s 63 1980s 60

Documented cases

791 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Monzer Al Kassar
In Custody
Monzer Al Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, age 63, was caught in a 2007 sting by DEA agents posing as FARC rebels...
Cliver Antonio Alcala Cordero
In Custody
Cliver Antonio Alcala Cordero, retired Venezuelan major general, was charged March 26, 2020 in SDNY with narco...
Mufid Fawaz Alkhader
In Custody
Mufid Fawaz Alkhader, a United States citizen born in Iraq and living in Schenectady, New York, was 28 when he...
Grailing Brown
In Custody
Kojo Bomani Sababu, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army. He was arrested during an attempted bank...
Hugo Carvajal
In Custody
Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, former director of Venezuelan military intelligence under Hugo Chavez, was char...
Alexander Stokes Contompasis
In Custody
Alex Stokes Contompasis was a journalist and artist from Albany, New York. Since 2014, Contompasis was a frequ...
Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier
In Custody
Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, a 55-year-old dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced August 17, 20...
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro
In Custody
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, attorney and former Venezuelan National Assembly president, is the wife of ex-pr...
Eric Hafner
In Custody
Eric G. Hafner (born 1991, New Jersey) is a perennial political candidate serving a twenty-year federal senten...
Faouzi Jaber
In Custody
Faouzi Jaber, age 61, of Ivory Coast, was caught in a 2017 DEA narco-terrorism sting in which informants posed...
Luigi Mangione
In Custody
Luigi Mangione, 26 at the time of his arrest and originally of Maryland, is accused of fatally shooting United...
Nicolas Maduro Moros
In Custody
Nicolás Maduro Moros (born November 23, 1962, in Caracas) is the de facto president of Venezuela. A former Car...
Dwight Parker
In Custody
Dwight Parker is a Troy, New York man convicted by jury and sentenced to prison for throwing Molotov cocktails...
Martin Leonel Perez Castro
In Custody
Martin Leonel Perez Castro alias Richard, 53, commander of the FARC 30th Front in Colombia, was sentenced Nove...
Rev. Joy Powell
In Custody
Joy Powell was Pentecostal pastor from Rochester New York, who was the top community voice against violence an...
Joshua Schulte
In Custody
Joshua Schulte was a former hacker employed by the CIA who leaked two billion pages of secret CIA data, known...
Salem Seleiman
In Custody
Salem Seleiman, 30, was sentenced December 4, 2025 to 24 months New York state prison for the May 20, 2021 ant...
Christopher Tindal
In Custody
Christopher Tindal is a Rochester, New York father who was arrested in May 2020 in connection with the arson o...
Salih Ali Abdullah
Released
Salih Ali Abdullah is one of the four young Sunni Muslim men who became known as the Williamsburg Four after a...
Jacob Abrams
Released
Jacob Abrams Russian-Jewish anarchist bookbinder and lead defendant in the landmark First Amendment case Abram...
Mohamed Albanna
Released
Mohamed Albanna, an American citizen from Yemen, was arrested in 2006 for illegally sending large amounts of m...
Jane Alpert
Released
Jane Alpert was a New York radical — and later a radical-feminist writer — who took part in a 1969 campaign th...
Israel Amter
Released
Israel Amter was a veteran New York Communist leader — long the face of the Party's unemployed and street-orga...
Aditya Aswani
Awaiting Trial
Aditya Aswani, 29, of Brooklyn, New York, is an animal-rights activist and one of four co-defendants — alongsi...

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
184 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
17 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
14 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
11 cases
MDC BrooklynBrooklyn, New York
9 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
9 cases
Blackwell's Island PenitentiaryNew York, New York
8 cases