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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.
Marion Bachrach
Released
Marion Bachrach was a Communist Party journalist, an aide to former congressman John Bernard, and the sister o...
Kuwasi Balagoon
Released
Kuwasi Balagoon (born Donald Weems) was a Black liberation-era activist whose politics moved through organizat...
Roger Baldwin
Released
Roger Baldwin was the founder and, for thirty years, director of the American Civil Liberties Union. During Wo...
Silvia Baraldini
Released
Silvia Baraldini is an Italian-born political activist whose organizing in the United States aligned with Blac...
Elliott James Barkley
Released
Elliott James Barkley, known as L.D., was an incarcerated organizer and spokesperson during the September 1971...
Joel Barr
In Exile
Joel Barr was an American electrical engineer associated with Julius Rosenberg’s wartime intelligence network....
Luis Barrios
Released
Father Luis Barrios is a Puerto Rican-born Episcopal priest, professor of psychology at John Jay College of Cr...
Edward K. Barsky
Released
Edward K. Barsky was a New York surgeon who had organized and led the American Medical Bureau’s volunteer hosp...
Jamie Bauer
Released
Jamie Bauer is a New York activist and direct-action trainer involved in Women's Pentagon Action and ACT UP. T...
Tarek Bazrouk
Released
Tarek Bazrouk was a young Palestinian-American student active in New York City demonstrations concerning Israe...
Isidore Begun
Released
Isidore Begun was a Russian-born American educator, teachers' union activist, and Communist Party organizer in...
Cedric Belfrage
Released
Cedric Belfrage was a British-born film critic and journalist who co-founded the radical U.S. weekly National...
Judy Bello
Released
Judy Bello is a peace activist from Rochester, New York and member of Upstate Drone Action, a coalition that o...
Don Benedict
Released
Don Benedict was one of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on Octob...
D. M. Bennett
Released
D. M. Bennett founded and published The Truth Seeker, a freethought newspaper. Anthony Comstock prosecuted him...
Lori Berenson
Released
Lori was a U.S. activist arrested in Lima, Peru in 1995 and convicted by a hooded military tribunal of treason...
Alan Berkman
Released
Alan Berkman was a New York City physician and longtime member of the radical health-care collectives that gre...
Alexander Berkman
Released
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and lifelong companion of Emma Goldman whose ow...
Daniel Berrigan
Released
Daniel Joseph Berrigan, S.J., was a Jesuit priest, poet, and organizer against war and nuclear weapons. A memb...
Jerry Berrigan
Released
Jerry Berrigan was an anti-war protester who painted anti-Iraq-war messages on the Syracuse federal building d...
Edilberto Berrio Ortiz
Released
Edilberto Berrio Ortiz, known as El Gavilan, was forcibly recruited into the FARC as a child and later served...
Lee Berry
Released
Lee Berry was a Vietnam War veteran and Black Panther Party member who was hospitalized at Bronx Veterans Affa...
Bruce Beyer
Released
Bruce Beyer (1948-2019) was a Buffalo antiwar organizer and draft resister associated with the Buffalo Nine. F...
Joan Bird
Released
Joan Bird was a 19-year-old nursing student and Black Panther Party member when she was arrested on January 17...
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