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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.
Michael Zweig
Released
Michael Zweig, a Stony Brook economics professor, was jailed for refusing to answer grand-jury questions about...
Emile de Antonio
Released
Emile de Antonio was a Marxist American documentary filmmaker known for Point of Order (1964), In the Year of...
Carmen Dolores Otero de Torresola
Released
Carmen Dolores Otero de Torresola was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second...
Nicole d’Entremont
Released
Nicole d’Entremont was a Catholic Worker editor jailed after an antiwar sit-down at New York’s Armed Forces Da...
Franz von Rintelen
Released
Franz von Rintelen was a German Imperial Navy officer who ran German covert operations in the United States fr...
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Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi
In Custody
Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi was Monzer Al Kassars associate in the 2007 DEA-FARC arms-dealer sting. Convicted at tria...
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Sam Brown
In Custody
Samuel Brown, who took the New Afrikan name Sekou Abdullah Mtetezi in prison, was a Black Liberation Army memb...
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Adam Mueller
Adam Mueller was an anti-Nazi refugee formerly employed at a Jewish hospital in Brooklyn. The January 27, 1936...
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Mousa Abu Marzook
Released
Mousa Abu Marzook was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service at New York’s JFK Airport on...
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Victor Cumberbatch
Victor Cumberbatch is individually listed in the July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dragon,...
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John Mahoney
John Mahoney was individually named among Griffiss Air Force Base anti-nuclear trespass defendants sentenced N...
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Bill Cuddy
Bill Cuddy was individually named among Griffiss Air Force Base anti-nuclear trespass defendants sentenced Nov...
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Kim Blacklock
Released
Kim Blacklock was individually named among three peace activists arrested December 8, 1983 after an antiwar pr...
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Johanna Benschop
Released
Johanna Benschop was individually named among three peace activists arrested December 8, 1983 after an antiwar...
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Carol McKenzie
Released
Carol McKenzie was individually named among three peace activists arrested December 8, 1983 after an antiwar p...
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Stanley Borowsky
Stanley Borowsky participated in the 1956 New York protest against compulsory air-raid shelter drills. Dorothy...
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Jos. B. Hart
Released
Jos. B. Hart was a railway worker and IWW organizer detained in Olean, New York, from October 27 to October 30...
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Shirley Lockwood
Shirley Lockwood was jailed for five days after refusing to pay a fine for a January 1986 trespass conviction,...
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Dorene Cornwell
Dorene Cornwell was convicted after a September 9, 1985 trial over removing a warning sign from the Seneca Arm...
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Patricia Hughes
Patricia Hughes was individually named among Knolls Atomic Laboratory protesters who refused fines after their...
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Jean Hynes
Jean Hynes was individually named among Knolls Atomic Laboratory protesters who refused fines after their Sept...
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Bonnie Stumph
Bonnie Stumph was individually named among Knolls Atomic Laboratory protesters who refused fines after their S...
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Asha Thornton
Asha Thornton was a New York community-health advocate detained as a material witness in the 1982 federal gran...
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Richard Sullivan
Released
Richard Sullivan was secretary of the Greater New York Unemployment Councils. The July 4, 1934 Daily Worker re...
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