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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.
Floyd Dell
Released
Floyd Dell was a Greenwich Village novelist, Chicago Renaissance critic, and managing editor of The Masses (19...
Eugene Dennis
Released
Eugene Dennis, born Francis Xavier Waldron and also known as Tim Ryan and Paul Walsh, was a Communist Party US...
Dr. Rafil Dhafir
Released
Dr. Rafil Dhafir was arrested on February 26, 2003.
Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir was an American Iraqi-born physician,...
Ralph DiGia
Released
Ralph DiGia was a New York City accountant and lifelong pacifist who refused to register for the draft in Worl...
Andrew Dmytryshyn
Released
Andrew Dmytryshyn was a leader of the Ukrainian American Fraternal Union, a section of the International Worke...
Joe Doherty
Released
Joseph Patrick Doherty was a Provisional IRA volunteer born in the New Lodge area of Belfast. Interned without...
Jack Donald
Released
Jack Donald was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unemp...
Steven Donziger
Released
Steven Robert Donziger is an American environmental and human-rights lawyer who represented Indigenous peoples...
Michael R. Dougherty
Released
Michael R. Dougherty was one of the D.C. Nine, who entered Dow Chemical’s Washington offices on March 22, 1969...
Mackenzie Drechsler
Released
Mackenzie Drechsler, of Ontario NY, charged June 30, 2020 with arson for the May 30, 2020 burning of two vehic...
Michelle Duclos
Released
Michelle Duclos was a Montreal broadcaster and freelance writer associated with the Quebec independence moveme...
Bob Dugarm
Robert Dugarm was an Attica prisoner prosecuted over the September 1971 prison rebellion. Attica News identifi...
Anne Dunham
Released
Anne was 23 at the time of indictment. Native of Pelham, NY, graduate of Ursuline Academy who attended Marymou...
William F. Dunne
Released
William F. Dunne was a veteran labor journalist and editor of the Daily Worker and a founding member of the Am...
Adam Durand
Released
Adam Durand is an animal-rights advocate and videographer who documented conditions at Wegmans Egg Farm and pa...
Max Eastman
Released
Max Eastman was a poet, journalist, and the editor of The Masses, the radical New York socialist literary maga...
Yasser Ebrahim
Released
Yasser was a Turkmen v. Ashcroft client who had been detained during the post-September 11 immigration sweeps....
Becky Edelsohn
Released
Becky Edelsohn was an American anarchist agitator. Born in Riga in the Russian Empire to a Latvian-Jewish fami...
Robert E. Edmondson
Released
Robert Edward Edmondson was a journalist and publisher of antisemitic pamphlets through the Edmondson Economic...
David Eichel
Released
David Eichel was a Jewish socialist absolutist from New York's Lower East Side, one of three Eichel brothers w...
Julius Eichel
Released
Julius Eichel was a Jewish socialist absolutist imprisoned during World War I after refusing military service....
Hannah Einbinder
Released
Hannah Einbinder was arrested at a September 24, 2026 sit-in near United Nations headquarters in New York City...
Gerhart Eisler
Released
Gerhart Eisler was a German-born Communist whom the House Un-American Activities Committee portrayed as the se...
Harry Eisman
Released
Harry Eisman was born in Kishinev (Chisinau), then in the Russian Empire. Harry Eisman was a Bronx schoolboy a...
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