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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.
Syed Fahad Hashmi
Released
Syed Fahad Hashmi is a Pakistani-American student of Brooklyn College and the London School of Economics. He w...
Ali Bey Hassan
Released
Ali Bey Hassan, born John J. Casson, was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York P...
Jacob E. Haugen
Released
Jacob E. Haugen was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Howard Gresham Hawkins III
Released
Howard was a Dartmouth-educated New England construction worker in the 1970s who co-founded the Clamshell Alli...
Robert Seth Hayes
Released
Robert Seth Hayes was arrested on September 17, 1973.
Seth Hayes is a member of the Black Panther Party and t...
Teddy Heath
Released
Teddy "Jah" Heath joined the Black Panther Party in 1968 and was associated with the Black Liberation Army. Ar...
Julian Heicklen
Released
Julian Heicklen was a Penn State chemistry professor and civil-liberties activist who repeatedly invited arres...
Ammon Hennacy
Released
Ammon Hennacy was a pacifist and “Christian anarchist” whose activism emphasized nonviolence, personal respons...
John Boncore Hill
Released
John Boncore Hill was a Mohawk (Haudenosaunee) prisoner and one of the leaders of the September 1971 Attica St...
Alger Hiss
Released
Alger Hiss was a Harvard-trained State Department official who served as Secretary-General of the founding UN...
Allan Hoffman
Released
Allan Hoffman was a 19-year-old artist and member of the Committee for Non-Violent Action sentenced to 60 days...
Ailene Holmes
Released
Ailene Holmes was a Finnish-American Communist organizer. The daughter of Finnish immigrants, she attended Bos...
Mohammed Mosharref Hossain
Released
Mohammed Mosharref Hossain was the Bangladeshi-American owner of an Albany, New York pizzeria and a founder of...
George Houser
Released
George Mills Houser was a Methodist minister and pacifist who in 1940, while a student at Union Theological Se...
Edward Howell
Released
Edward (Ted) Howell was an Irish republican organizer and later a Sinn Fein negotiator. His 1982 US detention...
Brendan Hunt
Released
Brendan Hunt was arrested on January 19, 2021.
On January 19, 2021 Brendan Hunt, 37, was arrested in Queens,...
Alphaeus Hunton
Released
Alphaeus Hunton was a Black scholar and anti-colonial activist, a leader of the Council on African Affairs, an...
Mabel Husa
Released
Mabel Husa was a Young Communist League summer-camp leader at Van Etten, New York convicted in 1930 under the...
Hany Ibrahim
Released
Hany was a Turkmen v. Ashcroft client who had been detained during the post-September 11 immigration sweeps....
Khalil Islam
Released
Khalil Islam was convicted (as Thomas 15X Johnson) in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. The Black Panther V...
Genevieve Jackson
Released
Genevieve Jackson was prosecuted with her husband Jacob after an August 1952 encounter in which New York City...
Jacob Jackson
Released
Jacob Jackson was prosecuted with his wife Genevieve after an August 1952 encounter in which New York City pol...
James E. Jackson
Released
James Edward Jackson Jr. was a Black Communist organizer and editor indicted under the Smith Act in 1951. Afte...
Ayman Jarwan
Released
Ayman Jarwan is a Jordanian citizen who was born in Saudi Arabia and now resides in Syracuse, New York He was...
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