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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.
Jean Montrevil
Released
Jean Montrevil is a Haitian immigrant-rights organizer and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition. ICE detained...
C. L. R. James
Released
C. L. R. James was a Trinidadian historian, Marxist theorist and anti-colonial organizer. U.S. immigration aut...
Joseph Ganghofer
Released
Joseph Ganghofer was a Bavarian hotel owner who came to the United States on a visitor’s visa in March 1935 af...
Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller was a German revolutionary dramatist and member of International Red Aid and the League Against I...
Farouk Abdel-Muhti
Released
Farouk Abdel-Muhti was a Palestinian human-rights activist and longtime WBAI radio programmer in New York City...
Salih Ali Abdullah
Released
Salih Ali Abdullah was one of the four young Sunni Muslim men who became known as the Williamsburg Four after...
Nehanda Abiodun
In Exile
Nehanda Abiodun, born Cheri Laverne Dalton in Manhattan, was a New Afrikan organizer associated with the Repub...
Jack Abrams
Released
Jacob Abrams was a Russian-Jewish anarchist bookbinder and lead defendant in the landmark First Amendment case...
Mark Adams
Released
Mark Adams, a long-term Occupy Wall Street organizer, was widely identified by the movement as OWS's first sen...
Akil Al-Jundi
Released
Akil Al-Jundi (born Herbert Scott Dean in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) was sentenced to life for murder in...
Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali
Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali was held in federal custody in New York in the prosecution arising from the 199...
Mohamed Albanna
Released
Mohamed Albanna, an American citizen from Yemen, was arrested in 2006 for illegally sending large amounts of m...
Jane Alpert
Released
Jane Alpert was a New York radical — and later a radical-feminist writer — who took part in a 1969 campaign th...
Jose Gabriel Alvarez-Ortiz
Released
Jose Gabriel Alvarez-Ortiz, ELN member; detained in late 2020. Extradited and prosecuted in the Southern Distr...
John Amidon
Released
John Amidon is a Marine Corps veteran and longtime Albany, New York peace organizer. He has served as presiden...
Israel Amter
Released
Israel Amter was a veteran New York Communist leader — long the face of the Party's unemployed and street-orga...
Maher Arar
Released
Maher Arar is a Syrian-born Canadian telecommunications engineer and survivor of the United States’ extraordin...
Yassin Aref
Released
Yassin Aref is a Kurdish Iraqi imam who came to the United States as a UN refugee in 1999. He was the imam of...
Isidore Ashpitz
Released
Isidore Ashpitz was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union officer detained in the prosecution ar...
Aditya Aswani
Awaiting Trial
Aditya Aswani, of Brooklyn, New York, is an animal-rights activist and one of four co-defendants — alongside D...
Patsy Augustine
Released
Patsy Augustine was a Cafeteria Workers’ Union member and chairman of the Nathan’s Famous strike committee arr...
Jacob Auslander
Released
Dr. Jacob Auslander was a New York physician and an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee C...
Khalid Awan
Released
Khalid Awan, Pakistani foreign national, was indicted October 25, 2006 for providing material support to KCF (...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz
Released
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, formerly known as Norman 3X Butler, was wrongfully convicted of participating in the 1965...
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