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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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Eugene Moy
Released
Eugene Moy was the editor of the New York China Daily News, a Chinese-American paper sympathetic to the new Pe...
J
James Mu
James was arrested at the July 19, 1929 demonstration outside the Nanking consulate in New York.
The July 22...
P
Paul Mueller
Paul was an Ellis Island detainee who signed a 1933 prisoners’ letter opposing deportation.
The June 5, 1933...
J
John Mullally
Released
John Mullally was one of four Irish Workers’ Club members arrested and beaten by police on June 22, 1932, afte...
J
Jay Munane
Jay Munane was individually named among Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory protesters arrested August 6, 1985 and...
M
Munaradan
Munaradan, a boatswain’s mate aboard the Standard Oil tanker Comeric at Tenth Street, Long Island City, was in...
J
John Munch
Released
John Munch was one of six pickets arrested September 12, 1935 outside Bickford’s restaurant, 215 West Forty-se...
A
Alfred J. Mungo
Released
Alfred J. Mungo was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
B
Barbara Murphy
Barbara Murphy was taken into police-station custody during a Harlem Communist election meeting in August 1932...
C
Chester F. Murphy
Chester F. Murphy was arrested at Lafayette Square in Buffalo on October 25, 1930 while distributing handbills...
E
Edward Murphy
Released
Edward Murphy was a Jesuit priest and NYC native, age 34 at indictment; entered the Society of Jesus in 1955,...
J
John Murphy
Released
John Murphy was a leader of the Unemployment Councils of the Lower Bronx. The Daily Worker of April 3, 1936 na...
G
George Murray
George Murray, a union mattress worker, was one of five defendants arrested in the William Intner Mattress Com...
Y
Yusuf A. Mussadiq
Released
Yusuf A. Mussadiq was one of the four young Sunni Muslim men known as the Williamsburg Four. On January 18, 19...
F
Franklin Myers
Franklin Myers is individually identified as an incarcerated Tombs representative. Right On! names the seven e...
P
Piratheepan Nadarajah
Released
Piratheepan Nadarajah conspired with an undercover FBI agent to purchase $1 million worth of weapons for the T...
O
Otto Nathan
Released
Dr. Otto Nathan was an economist and the executor of Albert Einstein's estate, cited for contempt of Congress...
G
George Neagu
Released
George Neagu was a Romanian immigrant arrested without a warrant and held for deportation in February 1936, ac...
L
Louis Nelson
Louis Nelson, a grocery clerk, was sentenced to ten days for picketing at 165th Street and Westchester Avenue,...
S
Sam Nelson
Released
Sam Nelson was named as Sam Nelson in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report s...
M
Mathilde Gertrude Neubacher
Mathilde Gertrude Neubacher was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbo...
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Otto Ludwig Neubacher
Otto Ludwig Neubacher was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
R
R. Nevin
R. Nevin, printed as Mrs. Nevin, was arrested while speaking at a United Council of Workingclass Women open-ai...
D
David Newburg
David Newburg was charged with felonious assault in a butchers’ union dispute, according to the Daily Worker....
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