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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.
Connie Matthews
Released
Connie Matthews was a Danish-Jamaican activist who served as the Black Panther Party’s international coordinat...
Colinford Mattis
Released
Colinford Mattis, attorney, with Urooj Rahman attempted to use Molotov cocktails to damage NYPD vehicles durin...
Louis McCabe
Released
Louis McCabe was one of the five defense lawyers for the eleven Communist leaders tried at the 1949 Foley Squa...
Jakhi McCray
Awaiting Trial
Jakhi McCray (also recorded as Jakhi Lodgson-McCray), a young activist from Brooklyn, was charged in the U.S....
Edward McGowan
Released
Edward McGowan was a Jesuit (13 years), age 36 at indictment, resident of Woodstock College and a Bronx native...
Olive McKeon
Released
Olive McKeon was an Irish-American activist jailed for refusing a federal grand jury demand during an investig...
Cecily McMillan
Released
Cecily McMillan was an Occupy Wall Street protestor who fought back against a police officer who sexually assa...
David McReynolds
Released
David McReynolds was a pacifist, democratic socialist, and longtime War Resisters League organizer. Police arr...
Joe McWilliams
Released
Joseph E. McWilliams, commonly known as Joe McWilliams, was a New York far-right organizer who founded the Chr...
Juan Francisco Ortiz Medina
Released
Juan Francisco Ortiz Medina was president of the New York junta in 1953, whose home served as party headquarte...
Julio Flores Medina
Released
Julio Flores Medina was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass t...
Gabriel Megahey
Released
Gabriel was an Irish republican activist convicted in federal court in the 1982 "Brooklyn Five" case for consp...
Sam Melville
Released
Sam Melville, born Samuel Joseph Grossman, was a New York City anti-war activist who, with the small affinity...
Murray Melvin
Released
Murray Melvin was a vice-president of New York's Allied Printing Helpers' Union who helped organize the 1935 s...
Murry Melvin
Released
Murry Melvin was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...
Samuel Mencher
Released
Samuel Mencher was one of the New York fur workers convicted in the 1927 Mineola trial — the Long Island prose...
Jorge Rodríguez Mendieta
Released
Jorge Enrique Rodríguez Mendieta, also known as Iván Vargas, commanded the 24th Front of the Revolutionary Arm...
Solomon Metz
Released
Solomon Metz was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union officer detained in the prosecution arisi...
Oscar Mileaf
Released
Oscar Mileaf was a New York fur workers union militant convicted in the 1927 Mineola prosecution arising from...
Arthur Miller
Released
Arthur Miller, the playwright, was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 (the House voted 373–9) after he ref...
David J. Miller
Released
David J. Miller was a 24-year-old Catholic Worker pacifist and the first person prosecuted under the August 19...
Louis Miller
Released
Dr. Louis Miller was a New York physician and an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm...
Shelley Miller
Released
Shelley Miller was an anti-imperialist organizer and Puerto Rican independence activist who led the New Moveme...
Jacob Mindel
Released
Jacob Mindel was the senior member of the Foley Square Second String, the Communist Party USAs internal educat...
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