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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.
Tom Forcade
Released
Tom Forcade was also known as Thomas King Forcade and Kenneth Gary Goodson and oversaw the Underground Press S...
James W. Ford
Released
James W. Ford was an African-American Communist Party organizer and its vice-presidential candidate in 1932, 1...
Jean G. Ford
Released
Jean G. Ford is a Haitian-born physician who graduated from Columbia University’s medical school in May 1984 a...
Joudon M. Ford
Released
Joudon M. Ford was a New York Black Panther leader and later a City College student newspaper editor, banker a...
Clark Foreman
Released
Clark Foreman was the director of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, cited for contempt of Congress in J...
Jim Forest
Released
Jim Forest was a conscientious objector discharged from US Navy 1961. FOR Vietnam Program Coordinator who, in...
William Z. Foster
Released
William Z. Foster was the national chairman of the Communist Party USA and the lead-named defendant in the 194...
Louis Fraina
Released
Louis Fraina was an Italian-born American Marxist theorist, journalist, and editor who emigrated to the United...
Marquis Frasier
Released
Marquis Frasier, said he was at the Public Safety Building "when the riots occurred" on May 30, 2020 in Roches...
Emanuel Fried
Released
Emanuel Fried was a Buffalo union leader who challenged a House Un-American Activities Committee subcommittee...
Betty Gannett
Released
Betty Gannett was a Communist Party USA organizer and a member of the partys National Education Department. Sh...
Virgil Flaviu Georgescu
Released
Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, a U.S. citizen and international businessman, conspired with Italian ex-MP Massimo Ro...
Alice Gerard
Released
Alice Gerard — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installati...
Simon W. Gerson
Released
Simon W. "Si" Gerson was a journalist, electoral organizer, and longtime political-action director of the Comm...
Brianna Gibson
Released
Brianna Gibson was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of t...
David Gilbert
Released
David Gilbert is an American radical Marxist, author, and a member of The Weather Underground Organization. In...
Ben Gitlow
Released
Benjamin Gitlow was a New York State assemblyman and founding member of the Communist Labor Party of America....
Kate Gitlow
Kate Gitlow was arrested on July 3, 1928.
The July 4, 1928 front-page caption identified Rebecca Grecht, Robe...
Richard Gladstein
Released
Richard Gladstein was one of the five defense lawyers for the eleven Communist leaders tried at the 1949 Foley...
John Theodore Glick
Released
John Theodore “Ted” Glick, born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, is an American antiwar, progressive and climate-j...
Ben Gold
Released
Ben Gold was born in Bessarabia and was the longtime Communist president of the International Fur and Leather...
Michael Gold
Michael Gold is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arres...
Emma Goldman
Released
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and orator who emigrated to the United States in 188...
Sam Gonshak
Released
Sam Gonshak was a New York organizer with the Unemployed Councils who resisted evictions and campaigned for re...
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