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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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Ronald Lyons
Released
Ronald Lyons was one of the 'Attica Brothers' whose kidnapping/unlawful-imprisonment charges from the 1971 reb...
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Kendell Lytton
Kendell Lytton was a Black Harlem worker held in Sing Sing’s death cell when the Daily Worker reported his Int...
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Leon Mabille
Released
Leon Mabille was a French worker and member of the Amalgamated Food Workers who worked as a cook in New York....
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Larry Mack
Released
Larry Mack was the section leader of the Queens branch of the Black Panther Party and a fugitive defendant in...
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Otto Macke
Otto Macke was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
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Dessie Mackin
Desmond Mackin was an Irish republican detained in New York during British extradition proceedings. Revolution...
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Thomas Oliver Maguire
Released
Thomas Oliver Maguire was one of the Tucson Six, defendants prosecuted over alleged arms supplies to the IRA....
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Frank Mahalik
Frank Mahalik was named as Frank Mahalik in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The re...
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Carl J. Maier
Released
Carl J. Maier was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Julius Mailman
Released
Julius Mailman was a New York fur worker and union activist prosecuted after the 1926 furriers’ strike. He and...
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Max Major
Max was an American Indian veteran and unemployment organizer clubbed, handcuffed and jailed while speaking....
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Ray Malak
Ray Malak was a veteran and a defendant in the Buffalo Nine antiwar sanctuary prosecution. Bruce Beyer’s first...
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Mariano Maldano
Mariano Maldano is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defenda...
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Rubin Malin
Released
Rubin Malin was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
J
John Malina
John was a worker arrested while picketing on November 6, 1929.
The report names these workers as arrested No...
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Noureddine Malki
Released
Noureddine Malki, whose real name is not known, became a U.S. citizen using a false identity and later became...
J
John Maller
Released
John Maller was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Oscar Mallief
Oscar was a fur-strike defendant in the Mineola prosecution whose conviction was under appeal in 1929.
The No...
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Albon Platt Man
Released
Albon Platt Man was a World War II conscientious objector imprisoned at Danbury and Lewisburg. He participated...
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Vincent Manchica
Vincent Manchica was a shoe worker and picket seriously wounded in a stabbing attributed by the Daily Worker t...
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Benjamin Mandel
Released
Benjamin Mandel was the business manager of the Daily Worker, jailed in the 1927 obscenity prosecution over Da...
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Antiona Mandino
Antiona Mandino was a garment worker prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The January 29, 1927...
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Paul Manko
Released
Paul Manko was a member of the Communist Party from New York City. Paul Manko served a sentence in Sing Sing S...
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Vito Marcantonio
Vito Marcantonio was arrested during the unemployed workers’ demonstration at Madison Square Park, New York, o...
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