Learn More → State by State
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.
2,077Documented
25In custody
1,084Released
7Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in New York
Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 715
1940s 176
1970s 173
1910s 169
1920s 165
1950s 161
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
2,077 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, was caught in a 2007 sting by DEA agents posing as FARC rebels seeking...
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi
In Custody
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi was transferred into United States custody and arrested on May 15, 2026. F...
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 is an Iraqi immigrant who fired a gun outside of Temple Israel in Albany while shouting “...
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
Alexander Stokes Contompasis was arrested on January 6, 2021.
Alex Stokes Contompasis was a journalist and ar...
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 was a political organizer and perennial political candidate serving a twenty-year federal sente...
Jeffrey Scott Hamm Jr.
In Custody
Jeffrey Scott Hamm Jr. was taken into federal custody by February 27, 2026 after prosecutors alleged that he p...
Faouzi Jaber
In Custody
Faouzi Jaber, an Ivorian national, was arrested in Prague on April 5, 2014 in a DEA operation involving inform...
Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy
In Custody
Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, a Chilean national age 60, was Monzer Al Kassars associate in the 2007 DEA-FARC arms...
Nicolas Maduro Moros
In Custody
Nicolás Maduro Moros (Born in in Caracas) is the de facto president of Venezuela. A former Caracas Metro bus d...
Karrem Nasr
In Custody
Karrem Nasr was critic of the U.S government living in Egypt who had been making anti-American Facebook posts...
Joseph Neumeyer
In Custody
Joseph Neumeyer is an anti-imperialist dual U.S-German citizen who was arrested in Israel for approaching the...
Yehonatan Ovadia
In Custody
Yehonatan Ovadia is an Israeli-born Satmar Hasidic religious teacher and father of five who moved to the Unite...
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, commander of the FARC 30th Front in Colombia, was sentenced November...
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...
Christopher Tindal
In Custody
Christopher Tindal is a Rochester, New York father who was arrested in May 2020 in connection with the arson o...
Catherine Beth Washburn
In Custody
Catherine Beth Washburn, an upstate New York Palestine activist, was arrested on June 30, 2026 on allegations...
Ravi Ragbir
Released
Ravi Ragbir is an immigrant-rights organizer with New Sanctuary Coalition. ICE detained him at a routine check...
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
201 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 Center, New YorkNew York, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
10 cases