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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.
Terry Bisson
Released
Terry Bisson was a science-fiction writer — later celebrated for "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made Out o...
Alexander Bittelman
Released
Alexander Bittelman was one of the founding members of the Communist Party USA in 1919 and the partys leading...
Leon Blum
Released
Leon Blum was a Bronx laundry worker and secretary of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union, affiliated with th...
Albert Blumberg
Released
Albert Blumberg was a Maryland-District of Columbia Communist Party leader arrested in 1954 under the Smith Ac...
Herbert X. Blyden
Released
Herbert X. Blyden was a jailhouse lawyer, prison organizer, and civil-rights activist born in St. Thomas in th...
Donna Joan Borup
In Exile
Donna Joan Borup, also known as Rebecca Ann Morgan and Donna Austopchuk, was associated with the May 19th Comm...
Kathy Boudin
Released
Kathy Boudin became a prominent figure in late–20th-century U.S. radical politics through antiwar and anti-rac...
Smith A. Boughton
Released
Smith A. Boughton was a country physician from Alps, Rensselaer County, New York and the most prominent leader...
Walter Bowe
Released
Walter Augustus Bowe was a member of the Black Liberation Front arrested in New York on February 16, 1965, wit...
Lyman R. Bradley
Released
Lyman R. Bradley, chairman of the German department at New York University and a treasurer of the JAFRC was on...
Benjamin Breger
Released
Benjamin Breger was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
William Breidert
Released
William Breidert was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Fred Briehl
Released
Frederick Briehl was from Brooklyn, New York. Frederick Briehl was a conscientious objector imprisoned during...
William Brisbane
Released
William Brisbane was an Anti-Rent lecturer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersheriff Osman N...
Curtis Brown
Curtis Brown was a Tombs prisoner and elected inmate representative prosecuted over the October 1970 Manhattan...
John Brown
Released
John Brown was an American abolitionist whose conviction that slavery could only be ended by armed force place...
Vincent Buccafori
Released
Vincent Buccafori was an Italian immigrant shoe-worker in Brooklyn, New York who in 1911 killed his foreman in...
Marilyn Buck
Released
Marilyn Buck was a Texas-born, white anti-imperialist revolutionary, the only white member of the Black Libera...
Safiya Bukhari
Released
Safiya Bukhari, born Bernice Jones in The Bronx, was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Par...
Thomas Bunker
Released
Thomas Bunker was a marine worker prosecuted with William Trajer and John Soderberg during the Independent Tid...
Edwin Berry Burgum
Released
Edwin Berry Burgum, a professor of English at New York University and a literary critic who sat on the JAFRC b...
Daniel Burns
Released
Daniel Burns was one of the St. Patrick's Four — Catholic Worker activists Peter DeMott, Teresa Grady, Clare G...
Ethel Byrne
Released
Ethel Byrne was a registered nurse and one of the three principal operators of the Brownsville birth-control c...
Harold I. Cammer
Released
Harold I. Cammer was a New York labor attorney held in contempt of court for his conduct in defending the fur-...
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