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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.
Fred Shearer
Released
Fred Shearer was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...
Teresa Yue Shen
Released
Teresa was an activist from New York arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee f...
Henry Shepard
Released
Henry Shepard was a Black Communist candidate for lieutenant-governor of New York jailed five days in 1932 for...
William Shifrin
Released
William Shifrin was a member of the New York butchers' union. William Shifrin was indicted for manslaughter af...
Morris Sigman
Released
Morris Sigman was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union secretary-treasurer detained in the pros...
Max D. Singer
Released
Max D. Singer was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union cloakmakers’ union member detained in the pros...
Agnes Smedley
Released
Agnes Smedley was an American journalist, feminist, and anticolonial activist best known for her later reporti...
Ferdinand Smith
Released
Ferdinand Christopher Smith was a Jamaican-born co-founder and national secretary of the National Maritime Uni...
Frank Big Black Smith
Released
Frank Big Black Smith was a 300-pound African-American prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New...
Nancy Smith
Released
Nancy was a SOA Watch activist who crossed the line onto Fort Benning, Georgia in November 2010 in protest of...
Morton Sobell
Released
Morton Sobell was a CCNY engineering classmate of Julius Rosenberg's who worked on military radar and ordnance...
John Soderberg
Released
John G. Soderberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was secretary-treasurer of the Independent Tidewater Boatm...
Karl Soehnlein
Released
Karl Soehnlein was an ACT UP/New York activist arrested during a sit-in outside the chamber of the New York St...
Martin Sostre
Released
Martin Sostre was the owner of a Buffalo, NY bookstore which was the city's center of Black radicalism. Martin...
Carlos Soule Echeverria
Released
Carlos Soule Echeverria was a Spanish Loyalist volunteer arrested for deportation to Franco's Spain and held a...
Benjamin Spock
Released
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famous pediatrician and author of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," was...
Ranjani Srinivasan
Released
Ranjani Srinivasan is an Indian national and doctoral researcher who was enrolled at Columbia University. In 2...
Suresh Sriskandarajah
Released
Suresh Sriskandarajah assisted the Tamil Tigers in researching and acquiring aviation equipment, submarine and...
Jack Stachel
Released
Jacob Stachel was One of eleven Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States.
Jack Stachel, a leader of...
Joseph Starobin
Released
Joseph Starobin was a writer and the former foreign editor of the Daily Worker who was voted a contempt-of-Con...
Mollie Steimer
Released
Mollie Steimer was an anarchist activist in New York City whose organizing centered on opposition to war, stat...
Eleanor E. Stein
Released
Eleanor E. Stein was arrested on October 23, 1981.
Daughter of New Deal economist Arthur Stein and civil-righ...
Sidney Steinberg
Released
Sidney Steinberg was a Communist Party organizer indicted in the 1951 second-string New York Smith Act case wh...
Charlotte Stern
Released
Charlotte Stern was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided...
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