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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.
Roberto Elia
Released
Roberto Elia was an Italian anarchist printer born in Catanzaro. Active as a socialist in Italy from 1898, he...
Dessie Ellis
Released
Desmond “Dessie” Ellis is an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician born in Ballymun, Dublin. U.S. authorit...
Eddie Ellis
Released
Eddie Ellis was arrested in 1969.
Edwin "Eddie" Ellis was a former Black Panther who was targeted as part of...
Julius Emspak
Released
Julius Emspak was the Founding General Secretary-Treasurer of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers...
Lonnie Epps
Released
Lonnie Epps was a teenage Black Panther Party member at the time of the April 2, 1969 Panther 21 raids. He was...
Bill Epton
Released
Bill Epton was a Harlem-born radical organizer associated with Maoist politics and leadership in the Progressi...
Judy Erickson
Released
Judy Erickson was a Patriot Party leader arrested with the organization’s national leadership in New York on F...
Esteban Quinones Escute
Released
Esteban Quinones Escute was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal ma...
Concepcion Estrada Correa
Released
Concepcion Estrada Correa was a seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican sentenced to death in New York after a felony-...
Linda Evans
Released
Linda Sue Evans was an antiwar and anti-imperialist organizer associated with Students for a Democratic Societ...
Mujahid Farid
Released
Mujahid Farid was a New Afrikan activist who spent 33 years in New York State prisons following a 1978 convict...
Juan Farinas
Released
Juan Pedro Farinas was a Cuban-born member of the Trotskyist Workers League who became a Vietnam-era anti-war...
Howard Fast
Released
Howard Fast, the best-selling novelist (author of “Citizen Tom Paine” and “Freedom Road”) and a member of the...
Dianne Feeley
Released
Dianne Feeley participated in Catholic Worker antiwar actions before joining the Young Socialist Alliance in 1...
Irving Feiner
Released
Irving Feiner was a Syracuse University student arrested for a sidewalk speech publicizing a Young Progressive...
Ronald Felder
Released
Ronald was one of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of cloth...
Herman Ferguson
Released
Herman Ferguson was a New York City public-school principal, a co-founder of the Organization of Afro-American...
Fred Fernandez
Released
Fred Fernandez was a Revolutionary Action Movement member named in the 1967 New York criminal-anarchy prosecut...
William “Preacherman” Fesperman
Released
William “Preacherman” Fesperman was national chair of the socialist, anti-racist Patriot Party. New York polic...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Released
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, a wealthy heir who broke with his class to become a radical, was a trustee of the...
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Released
Edward J. Fitzgerald was a former New Deal government official, named by the informer Elizabeth Bentley, who w...
Ernestina Fleischman
Released
Ernestina Fleischman was an official of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee jailed for contempt of Congre...
Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas
Released
Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, nephew of Cilia Flores, was arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Released
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most consequential American radicals of the twentieth century. As a teen...
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