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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.
Robert Minor
Released
Robert Minor was the celebrated cartoonist turned communist organizer. Robert Minor was arrested in the July 3...
Aaron Minter
Released
Aaron Minter, an Occupy Wall Street organizer who frequently went by the alias Aaron Black, was sentenced to 1...
Hector Xavier Monsegur
Released
Hector Xavier Monsegur, known online as Sabu, was a central organizer of Anonymous and its offshoot LulzSec be...
Henry Monsky
Released
Henry Monsky was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
Ricarte Montes García
Released
Ricarte was a member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP) jailed for civil contempt after refusing to t...
Anne Montgomery
Released
Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, of the Society of the Sacred Heart was one of the most prolific Plowshares activ...
Donnell Moore
Released
Donnell Moore was a former Black Panther Party member from Oakland who graduated from the University of Califo...
Howard Wilbur Moore
Released
Howard Wilbur Moore was among about fifty-five "absolutists" transferred through Fort Riley and Camp Funston b...
Dhoruba bin Wahad
Released
Dhoruba bin Wahad was arrested on June 5, 1971.
Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, born Richard Earl Moore, was a...
William Morales
Released
William Morales was a FALN member severely injured in a 1978 premature bomb explosion at a Queens, NY safehous...
Antonio Herrera Moreno
Released
Antonio Herrera Moreno was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mas...
Danny Morrison
Released
Danny Morrison was a Sinn Fein publicist and later a writer. He was jailed in Buffalo with Owen Carron after a...
Felix Morrow
Released
Felix Morrow was a Trotskyist editor and theoretician. Edited the SWP's newspaper The Militant and its theoret...
Fidelis Moscinski
Released
Father Fidelis Moscinski is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal (CFR) from the Bronx, New York, a Catholic pries...
Johann Most
Released
Johann Most was a German-American anarchist and the editor of the newspaper Freiheit, an advocate of "propagan...
Nick Mottern
Released
Nick Mottern is a Vietnam-era Navy veteran, journalist, and anti-drone organizer based in New York. He co-coor...
Jalil Muntaqim
Released
Jalil Muntaqim is a political activist and a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member who, after...
Harry Murray
Released
Harry Murray was a peace activist whose oral history describes custody following antiwar protests in New York,...
Louis Murray
Released
Louis Murray was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...
Twymon Ford Myers
Released
Twymon Ford Myers was a Black Liberation Army member from New York sought in connection with police shootings,...
Ramanan Mylvaganam
Released
Ramanan Mylvaganam helped to procure weapons and supplies for the Tamil Tigers.
Case characteristics: FBI sti...
Raisa Nemikin
Released
Raisa Nemikin was arrested on March 1, 1977.
Staff member of the Episcopal Church's National Commission on Hi...
Sam Nessin
Released
Sam Nessin was a member of the delegation of the unemployed that went to the New York City Board of Estimate o...
Miguel Vargas Nieves
Released
Miguel Vargas Nieves was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass...
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