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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.
Lionel Jean-Baptiste
Released
Lionel Jean-Baptiste was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and moved to the Chicago area as a teenager. After grad...
V. J. Jerome
Released
Victor Jeremy Jerome was the longtime cultural commissar of the Communist Party USA and the editor of the part...
Arnold Johnson
Released
Arnold Johnson was the Communist Party USAs longtime legislative director and its principal liaison with sympa...
Patreese Johnson
Released
Patreese Johnson was one of the New Jersey 4, a group of young African-American lesbian women from Newark who...
Claudia Jones
Released
Claudia Jones was Trinidadian-born, associated with the CPUSA Negro Affairs Commission, and the founder of Not...
Jeff Jones
Released
Jeffrey was an SDS New York regional organizer and national interim committee member born in Philadelphia. Jun...
Carl Jones-El
Released
Carl Jones-El was incarcerated at Attica in 1971 and helped establish the Attica Liberation Faction. The priso...
Jamal Joseph
Released
Jamal Joseph, born Eddie Joseph in Brooklyn, joined Harlem’s Black Panther Party at age fifteen. Police arrest...
Harry M. Justiz
Released
Harry M. Justiz was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided...
Shango Bahati Kakawana
Released
Shango Bahati Kakawana (Bernard Stroble) was one of the Attica Brothers, indicted on murder and kidnapping cha...
Karunakaran Kandasamy
Released
Karunakaran Kandasamy was head of the American branch of the Tamil Tigers and operated a front organization ca...
Kambiz Attar Kashani
Released
Kambiz Attar Kashani is a dual United States-Iranian citizen who was prosecuted for conspiring to export U.S....
Abayama Katara
Released
Abayama Katara was the youngest of the New York Panther 21 defendants, a teenager at the time of his April 2,...
Joe Katz
Released
Joe Katz was one of the New York fur workers convicted with Ben Gold in the 1927 Mineola trial — the Long Isla...
Melvin “Rema” Kearney
Released
Melvin “Rema” Kearney was identified with the Black Liberation Army in contemporary movement publications. He...
Yvette Kelley
Released
Yvette was a Black liberation activist charged as a New York 8+ defendant in the October 18, 1984 federal RICO...
Laura Cornelius Kellogg
Released
Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an Oneida author, orator, and a 1911 co-founder of the Society of American Indians...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Released
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, was arrested i...
Dick Keough
Released
Dick Keough was an anti-war protester who painted anti-Iraq-war messages on the Syracuse federal building duri...
Lafi Khalil
Released
Lafi Khalil, foreign national, was indicted August 28, 1997 with co-defendant Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer for a plo...
Mahmoud Khalil
Released
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-Algerian lawful permanent resident and Columbia University graduate, was a negot...
Peter Niven Kiger
Released
Peter Niven Kiger was a Quaker pacifist and Committee for Nonviolent Action and War Resisters League organizer...
Irene Kim
Released
Irene Kim was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of the Ho...
Ed Kinane
Released
Ed Kinane is an Upstate New York anti-war activist arrested repeatedly at Hancock Field Air National Guard Bas...
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