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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.
Irving Peress
Released
Irving Peress was an Army dentist whom Senator Joseph McCarthy made the center of the 1954 “Who promoted Peres...
Charlie Pernasilice
Released
Charlie Pernasilice was a Catawba prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility at the time of the September 1971 u...
Pettis Perry
Released
Pettis Perry was the highest-ranking Black member of the Communist Party USA at the time of his Smith Act pros...
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips was an Attica prisoner prosecuted over the September 1971 prison rebellion. Attica News ident...
Yamit Picon-Rodriguez
Released
Yamit Picon-Rodriguez, ELN member; detained in September 2020 in connection with a 20-year ELN cocaine-traffic...
Semaj Pigram
Released
Semaj was sentenced to prison for weapon possession in the June 2020 Buffalo protest SUV case.
Weapon possess...
Viola Plummer
Released
Viola Plummer was a Black liberation organizer and co-founder of the December 12th Movement, charged as a New...
Charles Plunkett
Released
Charles Plunkett was a young anarchist in the Ferrer Center / Modern School circle in New York and a member of...
Henry Pollack
Released
Henry Pollack was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
Frank Pommersheim
Released
Frank Pommersheim, born in Queens, New York, graduated from Colgate University in 1965 and Columbia Law School...
Martin Popper
Released
Martin Popper was a New York attorney and former secretary of the National Lawyers Guild, found guilty in 1961...
Curtis Powell
Released
Dr. Curtis Powell was an Oxford-trained biochemist and Black Panther Party member indicted as one of the New Y...
Michael Quill
Released
Michael J. Quill was president of the Transport Workers Union. A Brooklyn grand jury indicted him on three cri...
Abdul Haqq
Released
Craig was a New Afrikan political prisoner first held at Rikers Island and later in New York State custody und...
Harry Raymond
Released
Harry Raymond was a seaman and member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. He was one of five delegates cho...
Rosemary Reilly
Released
Rosemary was 22 at the time of indictment. From Brightwaters, Long Island, graduate of the Academy of Saint Jo...
William Walter Remington
Released
William Walter Remington was a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude Dartmouth economist (1939) who held senior post...
Courtland Renford
Released
Courtland Renford was charged with arson after throwing a burning basket into Buffalo City Hall during weekend...
Sam Resto
Released
Sam Resto is a New York City activist who was arrested on August 13, 2020 in connection with actions during th...
Megan Rice
Released
Sister Megan Gillespie Rice SHCJ was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a...
Clinton Rickard
Released
Clinton Rickard was a Tuscarora leader and U.S. Army veteran who founded the Indian Defense League of America...
James Ricks
Released
James Ricks is a peace activist from Ithaca, New York who participated in the October 2012 protest at Hancock...
Francisco Molina del Rio
Released
Francisco Molina del Rio was a Cuban worker and supporter of the Cuban Revolution imprisoned in New York after...
Pedro Antonio Rios
Released
Pedro Antonio Rios was a twenty-two-year-old Puerto Rican sentenced to death in New York after an April 1954 f...
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