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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 Florida.
189Documented
12In custody
171Released
3Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Florida
Where Florida’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2000s 43
1950s 29
2020s 26
1930s 25
2010s 23
1960s 18
Documented cases
189 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Abdul Azeez
In Custody
Abdul Azeez (formerly Warren Ballantine) is a Virgin Island independence activist known for being a part of th...
Daniel Barrera Barrera
In Custody
Daniel Barrera Barrera (El Loco) was extradited to the U.S. and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine...
Hanif Shabazz Bey
In Custody
Hanif Shabazz Bey (formerly Beaumont Gereau) is a Virgin Island independence activist known for being a part o...
Malik El-Amin
In Custody
Malik El-Amin (formerly Meral Smith) is a Virgin Island independence activist known for being a part of the "F...
Ignacio Leal Garcia
In Custody
Ignacio Leal Garcia (Camilo, Tuerto) was extradited from Colombia, tried, and convicted of FARC narcotics cons...
Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen
In Custody
Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 43, Jordanian national residing illegally in Orlando, left letters at multiple O...
Gerardo Aguilar Ramirez
In Custody
Gerardo Aguilar Ramirez (Cesar) was extradited from Colombia and pleaded guilty to FARC narcotics conspiracy;...
Alex Saab
In Custody
Alex Saab was a Venezuelan diplomat, was jailed on June 12, 2020 in Cabo Verde on orders of the United States....
Fabio Simon Younes Arboleda
In Custody
Fabio Simon Younes Arboleda, age 72, FARC associate; extradited from Colombia and pleaded guilty to conspiring...
Philip Agee
Released
Philip Agee was a former CIA case officer who became an influential critic of U.S. covert operations, particul...
Sami Al-Arian
Released
Sami Amin Al-Arian, 61, US permanent resident and former University of South Florida professor, was indicted F...
Marissa Alexander
Released
Florida mother convicted in 2012 of aggravated assault with a firearm for firing a warning shot into a wall to...
Rothschild Augustine
Released
Rothschild Augustine was a member of the Seas of David in Liberty City, Miami. He was convicted in the third L...
Daniel Baker
Released
Daniel Alan Baker, age 33, a former U.S. Army soldier who went AWOL pre-Iraq deployment and joined the Peoples...
Briana Boston
Released
Briana Boston, a 42-year-old mother from Lakeland, Florida, was arrested in December 2024 after telling a Blue...
Scott Camil
Released
Two-tour Marine Vietnam veteran turned anti-war organizer and a founding regional coordinator of Vietnam Veter...
Reubin Clein
Released
Reubin Clein was an editor for Miami Life magazine who was sentenced to 30 days in jail for refusing to reveal...
John Dougan
In Exile
John Dougan was a former police officer and candidate for Sheriff of Palm Beach County Florida, who ran agains...
Nina Droz Franco
Released
Nina Droz Franco became a prominent figure in Puerto Rican protest politics around May Day labor demonstration...
Caleb Freestone
Released
Caleb Hunter Freestone, 27, was indicted January 18, 2023 (and superseding March 22, 2023) for FACE Act conspi...
Carlos Alfredo Fugarte
Released
Carlos Fugarte, 28, of Lakeland, FL was charged with written threat to kill after making comments encouraging...
Armando Gomez
Released
Armando Gomez (El Doctor), age 70, FARC associate; extradited from Colombia and pleaded guilty to conspiring t...
René González
Released
He was born in Chicago, on August 13, 1956. He grew up in a workingclass family that immigrated from Cuba to t...
Charles Greenlee
Released
Charles Greenlee was the youngest of the Groveland Four — sixteen at the time — convicted in the 1949 Lake Cou...
Institutions in Florida
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Florida that appear in the census’s case files.
FCI MariannaMarianna, Florida
11 cases
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of FloridaGainesville, Florida
8 cases
Palm Beach County JailWest Palm Beach, Florida
8 cases
Florida State PrisonRaiford, Florida
7 cases
Raiford PenitentiaryRaiford, Florida
7 cases
Miami FDCMiami, Florida
4 cases
Hillsborough County JailTampa, Florida
4 cases
Florida state prisonLakeland, Florida
3 cases