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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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Otto Heinrich Gustav Sass
Otto Heinrich Gustav Sass was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Maria Sauer
Maria Sauer was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 2...
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Walter Saupe
Walter Saupe was arrested on February 17, 1936.
Pages 4–5 identify Walter Saupe, nineteen, an anti-Nazi refug...
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Henry Sazer
Henry Sazer was arrested while sympathetically picketing the Truefood Restaurant owned by his brother, despite...
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Jack Scaglione
Jack Scaglione was a Durable Tool and Die shop striker in New York. The February 25, 1932 Daily Worker reports...
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Salvatore Scata
Salvatore Scata was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing of...
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Joseph Schact
Joseph Schact was individually named among Ansonia Bootery shoe-salesmen's strike pickets arrested in New York...
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Israel Schaobers
Released
Israel Schaobers was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting th...
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Arthur Scharfman
Arthur Scharfman was a young worker arrested in the Bronx on Wednesday, October 5, 1932 for participating in a...
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Albert Schayer
Released
Albert Schayer was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and Allan S...
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Hannah Scherer
Released
Hannah Scherer was among seven workers arrested when police broke up a Communist election-campaign meeting in...
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Lena Davis Scherer
Released
Lena Davis Scherer was a Russian-born New York resident married to labor organizer Marcel Scherer. Immigration...
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Jonas Schiffman
Jonas Schiffman, reported aged 18 and a Young Workers League member, was arrested June 15, 1928, during City C...
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Aaron Schlossberg
Aaron Schlossberg was arrested at an anti-Nazi demonstration in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of April...
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Martin Kurt Schluckwerder
Martin Kurt Schluckwerder was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Abraham Schmetterling
Abraham Schmetterling was a Bronx grocery-union picket whom the August 15, 1928 Daily Worker individually name...
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Philip Werner R. Schmitt
Philip Werner R. Schmitt was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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Max Schnapp
Max Schnapp was a Borough Park Unemployed Council leader reported to have finished serving a jail sentence.
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Willy Joseph Schnellinger
Willy Joseph Schnellinger was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
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William Schnoor
William Schnoor was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februa...
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Howard Schoenfeld
Released
Howard Schoenfeld was an American fiction writer, editor, and pacifist who resisted conscription before the Un...
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Wilhelmine Marie Schoenherr
Wilhelmine Marie Schoenherr was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbo...
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Charles G. Schonberg
Charles G. Schonberg was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on F...
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Jovert Schouter
Jovert Schouter was an unemployed marine worker prosecuted in New York following a demonstration at the Seamen...
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