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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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Rose Nelson Lightcap
Released
Rose Nelson Lightcap was an officer of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order. Immigration agents arrested her on...
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Eric M. Liskin
Released
Eric M. Liskin was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war res...
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Steve Liskis
Steve Liskis, twenty-six, chose jail rather than a ten-dollar fine during the New York cafeteria strike. The M...
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Joe Little
Joe Little is identified in the Liberated Guardian as an incarcerated Attica defendant. It discusses the postr...
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Frank D. Lo Presti
Released
Frank D. Lo Presti was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Marilyn A. Lo Presti
Released
Marilyn A. Lo Presti was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university w...
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Wallace F. Logan
Released
Wallace F. Logan was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Duke Lona
Released
Duke Lona was one of two unemployed workers named in the July 25, 1933 Daily Worker as released the previous d...
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Isidor London
Isidor London is identified in the Christmas visit account as imprisoned at the Tombs, New York, for his activ...
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Bertha Long
Bertha Long was arrested during a New York relief-station demonstration, according to the July 17, 1934 retros...
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Jerry Long
Jerry was identified by the state report as a Black Liberation Army associate confined at Brooklyn House of De...
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William Longfors
Released
William Longfors was named as William Longfors in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster....
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Anna Maria Loock
Anna Maria Loock was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febru...
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Leo Loskowitz
Leo Loskowitz was charged with felonious assault in a butchers’ union dispute, according to the Daily Worker....
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Jack Louis
Jack Louis was arrested at an anti-Hearst open-air meeting at Augus Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx...
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William Lovell
Released
William Lovell was one of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on Oct...
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Bertha Lowenthal
Bertha Lowenthal was arrested in New York on May 22, 1934 after shouting for police to free a pregnant relief...
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Wilhelm Carl Ludwig
Wilhelm Carl Ludwig was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Sam Lugavere
Sam Lugavere was individually named among Ansonia Bootery shoe-salesmen's strike pickets arrested in New York...
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Gilbert Lugo
Gilbert was identified by the state report as an associate confined with BLA prisoners at Rikers Island in Feb...
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John Lund
Released
John Lund was named as John Lund in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report say...
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Helen Lynch
Helen Lynch was among the Lower Bronx Unemployed Council members released on August 7, according to the contem...
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Jerry Lynch
Jerry Lynch was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette St...
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William Lynch
Released
William Lynch was a New York longshoreman jailed for contempt in 1954 for his part in an International Longsho...
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