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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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Mary Snyder
Mary Snyder was arrested during a 2012 nonviolent antiwar or antinuclear protest.
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Nachimuthu Socrates
Released
Socrates, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, Vijayshanthar Patpanathan, Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian, Namasivaya Viswanatha...
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Serop Soghomonian
Serop Soghomonian is identified in the report, an American worker and Army veteran who served in Siberia in 19...
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Hubert Soika
Hubert Soika was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Alex Sologub
Released
Alex Sologub was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Allan Solomonow
Released
Allan Solomonow was a Jewish pacifist and antiwar activist prosecuted after tearing his signature from a draft...
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Raymond Soto Dávila
Released
Raymond Soto Dávila is a Puerto Rican independence activist and historian associated with CUCRE and the Liga S...
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Ernst Otto Sotzek
Ernst Otto Sotzek was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Joseph Spencer
Released
Joseph Spencer was arrested at the Schweinler Press on Saturday, May 18, 1929 and rearrested there on May 20....
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Ormistan Spencer
Released
Ormistan “Tony” Spencer was a Trinidad-born production manager whose family faced repeated racist violence aft...
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Arthur Sperber
Arthur Sperber was individually named among Ansonia Bootery shoe-salesmen's strike pickets arrested in New Yor...
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Sarah Spewack
Sarah Spewack was a dress striker in New York. The Daily Worker of March 13, 1931, page 1, names Sarah Spewack...
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Gerard Spiegler
Released
Gerard Spiegler was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...
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Richard J. Spitz
Released
Richard J. Spitz was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...
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Paul Spivak
Paul Spivak was among the unemployed workers arrested after the August 25, 1931 hunger delegation to the New Y...
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Howard Spragg
Released
Howard Spragg was one of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on Octo...
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George Spyranious
George Spyranious was a shoe-strike picket arrested in Ridgewood on December10,1929 during a demonstration at...
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Daniel W. Squires
Released
Daniel W. Squires was a Delaware County, New York tenant farmer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of...
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Mary Stabler
Released
Mary Stabler was arrested July 31, 1929 at the Grand Street Extension in Brooklyn for distributing antiwar lea...
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Karl Heinrich Stade
Karl Heinrich Stade was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Angeleno Stafeno
Released
Angeleno Stafeno was a worker arrested while picketing the Equitable Paper Bag strike at 314 School Street in...
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Peter Stahrenberg
Released
Peter Stahrenberg was a New York printer connected with the distribution of German American Bund propaganda. A...
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Eddie Stark
Eddie Stark was arrested February 17, 1930 during a 38th Street picket. The February 19 report says the defend...
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Louis Stark
Louis Stark was a garment striker arrested outside Needleman and Bremmer, 263 West 40th Street, New York. The...
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