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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.
2,077Documented
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.
Mariano Gonzalez
Released
Mariano Gonzalez, identified as Dalou Asahi by the Attica Brothers Legal Defense, was an Attica prisoner and o...
Robert Good
Released
Robert was 22 at the time of indictment. A former seminarian who studied five years with the Missionary Societ...
David Gordon
Released
David Gordon was a Communist trade unionist, author, editor, and journalist. Born in Ukraine, he immigrated to...
Ellen Grady
Released
Ellen Grady, daughter of Camden 28 defendant John Grady and sister of Clare and Teresa Grady, was an aide to a...
Teresa Grady
Released
Teresa Grady is an Ithaca Catholic Worker and one of three Grady sisters (with Clare and Mary Anne) at the hea...
Mary Anne Grady-Flores
Released
Mary Anne Grady-Flores is an Ithaca Catholic Worker, photographer, and anti-drone activist. Police arrested he...
Marcus Graham
Released
Marcus Graham was an anarchist editor — of the Anarchist Soviet Bulletin (1919), later Free Society and The Ro...
Rebecca Grecht
Released
Rebecca Grecht was a Workers Party election campaign manager. Rebecca Grecht was arrested in the July 3, 1928...
Calogero Greco
Released
Calogero Greco was born in Sicily around 1893–1894 (a 1927 report gives his age as 33). Calogero Greco was a S...
Abner Green
Released
Abner Green was the executive secretary of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and a trustee...
Gil Green
Released
Gil Green was One of twelve Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States.
Gil Green, a leader of the com...
Shields Green
Released
Shields Green was a fugitive from slavery in South Carolina who had escaped to the North and become close to F...
David Greenglass
Released
David Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's younger brother; Army machinist at Los Alamos who passed plutonium-bomb...
Priscilla Grim
Awaiting Trial
Priscilla Grim, of Brooklyn, New York, was a longtime media organizer with Occupy Wall Street in 2011-2012 and...
Steven Guerra
Released
Steven Guerra was a Puerto Rican independence activist identified by prosecutors as a leader of FALN support w...
Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán
Released
Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán was Minister of Information of the New York Young Lords and was arrested in the group's...
Nancy Gwin
Released
Nancy Gwin — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installation...
Basheer Hameed
Released
Basheer Hameed was arrested in August 1981.
Bashir Hameed was a Black liberation activist who worked within t...
Daniel Hamm
Released
Daniel was one of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of cloth...
Dashiell Hammett
Released
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was the most influential American detective novelist of the twentieth century — the cr...
Peter Harisiades
Released
Peter Harisiades was a Greek-born labor journalist who had lived in the United States since 1916. Immigration...
Solomon Harper
Released
Solomon Harper was a labor organizer, and famed inventor who created the electric hair roller along with over...
Arthur Harris
Released
Arthur Harris was a South Jamaica CORE organizer and member of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM). The CO...
Arthur Harvey
Released
Arthur Harvey was one of a group of pacifists arrested in New York City in April 1959 for refusing to take she...
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