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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.
Moana Cole
Released
Moana Cole is a New Zealand peace activist and one of the four Catholic Worker members of the ANZUS (Australia...
Rosa Cortez Collazo
Released
Rosa Cortez Collazo was a Puerto Rican independence activist and wife of Oscar Collazo, one of the two Puerto...
Bob Collier
Released
Robert Steele Collier was a longtime Harlem-based revolutionary and one of the New York Panther 21. He had bee...
Tom Cornell
Released
Thomas Charles Cornell was an American pacifist organizer, ordained Catholic deacon, longtime member of the Ca...
Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arr...
Ida Craddock
Released
Ida Craddock was an American sex educator and women's rights activist who wrote instructional sex ed pamphlets...
William Craig
Released
William was one of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clot...
George Crockett
Released
George W. Crockett Jr. was one of the defense attorneys in the 1949 Foley Square Smith Act trial of the eleven...
James Cromitie
Released
James Cromitie was a Newburgh, New York Walmart employee and convicted petty criminal at the time he was appro...
Carol Crooks
Released
Carol Crooks was a Black woman imprisoned at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in New York who...
Eduardo Cruz
Released
Eduardo “Pancho” Cruz was a Puerto Rican independence activist and pre-law student at City College who founded...
María Cueto
Released
María Cueto was the director of the National Commission on Hispanic Affairs of the Episcopal Church and a well...
Manuel Cuevas Diaz
Released
Manuel Cuevas Diaz was a Spanish Republican sailor who fought Franco, survived internment in French North Afri...
Leon Czolgosz
Released
Leon Czolgosz was an anarchist. Leon Czolgosz was arrested on September 6, 1901 for assassinating President Wi...
William Daley
Released
William Daley was arrested at the United Nations in 1954 and committed to the Bellevue psychiatric ward for pr...
Meredith Dallas
Released
Meredith Dallas was one of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on Oc...
Bruce Dancis
Released
Bruce Dancis was detained on May 20, 1969.
On December 14, 1966, 18-year-old Cornell University SDS activist...
Benjamin J. Davis Jr.
Released
Benjamin J. Davis Jr. was One of twelve Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States.
Bejamin J. Davis J...
Deyanna Davis
Released
Deyanna Davis was detained on June 22, 2023.
Drove SUV into a state trooper during Buffalo protest (2020). Se...
Felton Davis
Released
Felton Davis is a New York Catholic Worker arrested at the Pentagon on August 1999 for refusing to leave the P...
Dorothy Day
Released
Dorothy Day was a journalist, organizer, and the co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker Movemen...
Giovanni De Cecca
Released
Giovanni De Cecca was an Italian-American Bible Student responsible for foreign-language distribution of Watch...
Peter DeMott
Released
Peter DeMott was a Catholic Worker, Vietnam War veteran, and prolific Plowshares activist. On December 13, 198...
Ronald DeRisi
Released
Ronald DeRisi of Smithtown, New York was arrested on October 19, 2018 after leaving more than ten threatening...
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