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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.

300Documented
15In custody
200Released
9Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Florida

Where Florida’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 70 2000s 46 2020s 32 1950s 30 1970s 27 2010s 26

Documented cases

300 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Juan Melendez
Released
Juan Roberto Melendez spent more than seventeen years on Florida’s death row after a 1984 murder and armed-rob...
C
Christian Minaya
Released
Christian Minaya, 39 at the time, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs activists a...
S
Seamus Moley
Released
Seamus Moley was an Irish national prosecuted in two U.S. arms-procurement cases connected to the Provisional...
D
Daniel Moore
Released
Daniel Moore was one of the GE Three anti-nuclear protesters prosecuted following an October 1982 action at Ge...
F
Felix Morrero
Released
Felix Morrero was one of the Tampa Fourteen Tobacco Workers Industrial Union defendants. A May 24, 1933 dispat...
M
Martin Mullen
Released
Martin Mullen, Irish foreign national, IRA gun-running co-defendant; convicted; 36 months federal prison.
A
Angela Nance
Released
Angela Nance participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the ensuing j...
L
Luis Manuel O'Neill
Released
Luis Manuel O'Neill was one of six Mayagüez nationalist cadets whom Dávila Marichal identifies as convicted fo...
G
Gabriella Oropesa
Released
Gabriella Victoria Oropesa, also known as Gabs, Gaby, and Gummy, was the only one of four Florida abortion-rig...
E
Eviqueta Palacios
Eviqueta Palacios is named in the January 20 Tampa bulletin printed in the February 1933 Labor Defender among...
D
Deep Alpesh Kumar Patel
Released
Deep Alpesh Kumar Patel, of Sarasota FL, called the World Jewish Congress in NYC and left a threatening voicem...
A
Anthony Ray Peek
Anthony Ray Peek was imprisoned on Florida’s death row after a 1978 murder and sexual-battery conviction. His...
C
Carmen Maria Ponton Caro
Released
Carmen Maria Ponton Caro (La Negra), Salamanca-cluster defendant. 70 months federal prison + 36 months supervi...
T
Tom Powell
Tom Powell was imprisoned in federal custody after pleading guilty in a Florida anti-draft conspiracy case. T...
L
Lorenzo Puentes
Released
Lorenzo Puentes was a Tampa cigar worker, former president of Cigar Makers’ Local 500 and member of the Commun...
W
Wilfredo Puentes
Released
Wilfredo Puentes was a seventeen-year-old threatened with deportation to Cuba in Tampa, Florida. His father, L...
L
Lynne Purvis
Released
Lynne Purvis is an environmental activist jailed after an Everglades-area power-plant blockade. Following rele...
E
Edizon Ramirez Gamboa
Released
Edizon Ramirez Gamboa, an immigration inspector who helped Salamanca-cluster informants get through Bogota air...
A
Ali Rehman
Awaiting Trial
Ali Rehman, also identified in the indictment as Faisal Ali Rehman, was a resident of Pakistan charged by a fe...
D
Doss Roberts
Doss Roberts is named in Page 5’s June 8 Miami report, thirty-three, a railway worker, as still held despite c...
M
Morris Robinsky
Released
Morris Robinsky was cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for invoking the...
L
Leonard Rockwell
Leonard Rockwell served three months in federal prison in Tallahassee for Quaker draft-registration refusal in...
M
Marvin Rockwell
Marvin Rockwell served three months in federal prison in Tallahassee for Quaker draft-registration refusal in...
H
Hector Rodriguez-Acevedo
Released
Hector Ignacio Rodriguez-Acevedo (Nacho Rodriguez), conspired to send weapons to the United Self-Defense Force...

Institutions in Florida

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Florida that appear in the census’s case files.

FCI MariannaMarianna, Florida
8 cases
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of FloridaGainesville, Florida
8 cases
Florida State PrisonRaiford, Florida
8 cases
Raiford PenitentiaryRaiford, Florida
7 cases
Palm Beach County JailWest Palm Beach, Florida
7 cases
Miami FDCMiami, Florida
4 cases
Polk County JailBartow, Florida
4 cases
Fort TaylorKey West, Florida
4 cases