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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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Cassandra White
Released
Cassandra White was individually named among women arrested at Seneca Army Depot during August 1984. The repor...
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Charles White
Charles White was one of six defendants prosecuted for picketing the Empire Cafeteria at 125th Street and Leno...
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Ellis White
Ellis White worked with Andrew Austin in the New York Black Panther Party’s newspaper-distribution network. Po...
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Jerry White
Jerry White was a young worker arrested during a police raid of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union headqua...
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Ruth White
Ruth White was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buffalo...
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Sol Widon
Released
Sol Widon was the chairman of its grievance committee in Brooklyn. The Daily Worker individually names him amo...
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Hans Gustave Wiechers
Hans Gustave Wiechers was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on...
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Johan Wiechers
Johan Wiechers was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Selma Wiechers
Selma Wiechers was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Februar...
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Marie Wigman
Marie Wigman was a May’sDepartmentStore striker or picket prosecuted in Brooklyn. MagistrateCharlesSolomon acq...
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Josephine Anna Wild
Josephine Anna Wild was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Dew B. Wilde
Released
Dew B. Wilde was individually named among women arrested at Seneca Army Depot during August 1984. The report e...
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Kurt Otto Wilking
Kurt Otto Wilking was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Tony Williams
Released
Anthony "Tony" Williams was an Attica prisoner prosecuted after the September 1971 uprising. Attica News docum...
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Arthur Williams
Released
Arthur Williams was a Black worker arrested at the Harlem Unemployed Council headquarters, 353 Lenox Avenue, o...
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Charles Williams
Charles Williams was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayet...
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James Williams
James Williams was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Buf...
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Oscar Williams
Released
Oscar Williams was a young Black worker jailed after protesting discrimination by the Brooklyn Home Relief Bur...
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Suzanne Williams
Released
Suzanne Williams was arrested on September 6, 1970.
Known as Suzi Williams, of Rochester, NY, one of the eigh...
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J. L. Williamson
Released
J. L. Williamson was a sixty-seven-year-old Spanish–American War veteran and American Legion charter member fr...
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Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson was arrested during a 2011 Buffalo antiwar protest.
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Jim Wilson
Released
Jim Wilson was a Catholic Worker pacifist whose refusal to cooperate with conscription followed his religious...
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John Wilson
John Wilson is identified in Page 2 as arrested Friday night, July 26, 1935 at a protest at the Forty-Seventh...
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William Wilson
William Wilson (printed alias Xmielex) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica up...
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