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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.
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Charles Barnett
Charles Barnett was named as Charles Barnett in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. Th...
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Helen Barno
Released
Helen Barno was a picket arrested when police broke the textile-trimmers’ picket line at the LouisHornickCompa...
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William Barnshal
William Barnshal was a seaman arrested after a confrontation at the Seamen’s Institute in New York in late Jul...
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Harold Baron
Harold Baron was a member of the Young Communist League arrested on Sunday, February 16, 1936, outside St. Seb...
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Gearge Barron
Gearge Barron was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buff...
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Arthur Barry
Released
Arthur Barry was one of six pickets arrested September 12, 1935 outside Bickford’s restaurant, 215 West Forty-...
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Phil Bart
Released
Phil Bart was a former general manager of the Daily Worker who was convicted of contempt of Congress after ref...
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Joseph Baskerville
Joseph Baskerville was a seventeen-year-old Black Panther reportedly handcuffed, beaten and taken away by poli...
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Scott L. Bassoff
Released
Scott L. Bassoff was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
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Fletcher Bay
Fletcher Bay was a Black man reported killed during police questioning in the Brooklyn Hammer Man investigatio...
A
Adolph Bayer
Released
Adolph Bayer was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting the Ed...
C
Carlos Bayon
Released
Carlos Bayon was a Grand Island, New York resident arrested on August 1, 2018 after leaving threatening voicem...
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Jane Be
Released
Jane Be was individually named among women arrested at Seneca Army Depot during August 1984. The report expres...
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Frieda Meta Becker
Frieda Meta Becker was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New Yo...
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Morris Becker
Released
Morris Becker was an anarchist and a vegetarian from New York, New York. Morris Becker was sentenced to a year...
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Frederick Beijerbach
Released
Frederick Beijerbach was a baker and member of the Heidelberg Bakers’ Union who fled Nazi Germany in June 1934...
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John J. Belford
Released
John J. Belford was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Mary Beatrice Belfrage
Released
Mary Beatrice Belfrage was a British journalist and former wife of National Guardian editor Cedric Belfrage. I...
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John Bell
John was an Ellis Island detainee who signed a 1933 prisoners’ letter opposing deportation.
The June 5, 1933...
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Josephine Bell
Released
Josephine Bell was a Poet and Masses contributor. Indicted in November 1917 along with editor Max Eastman, Joh...
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D. Benjamin
D. was arrested at the Wall Street anti-imperialist demonstration described in the July 3 dispatch.
The July...
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J. Benkal
Released
J. Benkal, a cloakmaker, was actually arrested while picketing Dressler and Freedman at 104 West 27th Street....
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William Bennett
William Bennett (printed alias Goldmine) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica...
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Joseph Anton Berberich
Joseph Anton Berberich was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, Ne...
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