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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.
Charles King
Released
Charles King is a lawyer, minister and co-founder of Housing Works who became a leading advocate for homeless...
Kwando Kinshasa
Released
Kwando Kinshasa, born William King, was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Pa...
Glenn Kissack
Released
Glenn Kissack was a Stony Brook student jailed after intervening in the arrest of campus activist Mitch Cohen.
Jerry Koch
Released
Gerald "Jerry" Koch is a New York anarchist and grand-jury resister. He was confined at the Metropolitan Corre...
Yuri Kochiyama
Released
Yuri Kochiyama (born Mary Yuriko Nakahara) was a Japanese American human-rights activist based in Harlem, inte...
Louis Kogan
Louis Kogan was arrested while selling the Labor Defender at the March 6, 1930 Union Square unemployment demon...
Mohaman Koti
Released
Mohaman Geuka Koti, also known as James Johnson, was a Black liberation prisoner held for decades in New York....
Charles Krumbein
Released
Charles Krumbein was the New York district organizer of the Communist Party. Convicted of passport fraud, he e...
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
Released
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze was a German American Bund official who succeeded Fritz Kuhn as the organization’s natio...
Hyman Lachowsky
Released
Hyman Lachowsky was a Russian-Jewish bookbinder and Frayhayt-group anarchist convicted alongside Jacob Abrams....
David Lamar
Released
David Lamar was a New York stock manipulator known in the press as the Wolf of Wall Street. During World War I...
Corliss Lamont
Released
Corliss Lamont was an author and civil libertarian who refused on First Amendment grounds to answer questions...
Mark Lane
Released
Mark Lane was a New York State Assemblyman who joined the 1961 Freedom Rides and was arrested on an integrated...
Albert Lannon
Released
Albert Lannon was an Irish-American longshoreman, organizer for the National Maritime Union, and a member of t...
James Larkin
Released
James Larkin was born in Liverpool, England. James Larkin was an international leader for Irish independence f...
Carl Larson
Released
Carl Larson was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unemp...
Knud M. Lassen
Released
Knud M. Lassen was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
Maliki Shakur Latine
Released
Maliki Shakur Latine is a person who has consistently acted, studied, and worked for the betterment of his com...
Juan Bernardo Lebron
Released
Juan Bernardo Lebron was a member of the party’s New York junta. A federal grand jury indicted the party leade...
Jim Lechay
Jim Lechay was arrested on May 27, 1934.
Rose Lechay’s first-person article reports that police arrested her...
Rose Lechay
Rose Lechay’s first-person article reports that police arrested her and Jim Lechay on May 27, 1934 after clear...
Bob Lederer
Released
Bob Lederer is a New York writer, editor and longtime anti-imperialist and AIDS activist, a member of the New...
Ruth Leider
Released
Ruth Leider was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided ref...
Clara Lemlich
Released
Clara Lemlich was a labor organizer who helped spark the 1909-1910 New York shirtwaist strike, known as the Up...
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