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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.
Luke Harper
Awaiting Trial
Luke Harper, age 27 of Lake Worth, Florida at the time of arrest, was one of 23 people arrested by Georgia Sta...
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo
Released
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo was the leader of the Wasp Network (La Red Avispa), the Cuban intelligence cell that...
Walter Irvin
Released
Walter Irvin was one of the Groveland Four, young Black men accused of raping a white woman in Lake County, Fl...
William Potts Jr.
Released
William Potts was a Black Panther Party member who in 1984 boarded a Miami bound plane and handed the flight a...
Rommie Loudd
Pro football's first Black owner (of the WFL's Florida Blazers), jailed in Orlando on drug and embezzlement ch...
Stephen R. Mallory
Released
Stephen R. Mallory, a former U.S. senator from Florida and the Confederate secretary of the navy, was arrested...
Camille Marino
Released
Camille Marino is an American animal-rights organizer and the founder of Negotiation Is Over (NIO), a campaign...
Ramón Labañino
Released
Ramón Labañino Salazar is part of the Cuban Five serving 30 years, reduced from a life sentence plus 18 years....
Oren Miller
Released
Oren L. Miller (born c. 20th century) is a former local politician and public figure who served as a Sumter Co...
Mary A. Nolan
Released
Mary A. Nolan was a suffrage activist who joined the National Woman's Party “Silent Sentinels, ” the group tha...
Ahmed Obafemi
Released
Ahmed Obafemi, formerly Jesse Dixon, was a New Afrikan organizer associated with the Republic of New Afrika, t...
Stanley Grant Phanor
Released
Stanley Grant Phanor was a member of the Seas of David in Liberty City, Miami. He was convicted in the third L...
Dane Powell
Released
Dane Powell was the only one of approximately 230 people charged in the federal Disrupt J20 prosecution to ser...
Gabriela Saldana
Awaiting Trial
Gabriela Saldana is a 23-year-old Florida International University capstone student who was arrested on April...
Mark Schmidter
Released
Mark Schmidter is a court reform activist with the group Fully Informed Jury Association that promotes informi...
Gavin Seim
In Exile
Gavin Seim was Libertarian activist and Congressional candidate who organized rallies protesting gun control m...
Samuel Shepherd
One of the Groveland Four. WWII Army veteran. Sentenced to death; killed by Sheriff Willis V. McCall on Novemb...
Amber Smith-Stewart
Released
Amber Marie Smith-Stewart, 23, gender non-conforming, co-defendant of Caleb Freestone in the Janes Revenge Flo...
C. K. Steele
Released
The Rev. C. K. Steele was the Tallahassee NAACP president and leader of the Inter-Civic Council, which ran the...
Patricia Gloria Stephens Due
Released
Patricia Gloria Stephens Due, a Florida A&M student and CORE organizer, was arrested during the February 20, 1...
Jerry Texiero
Released
Jerry Texiero was a Vietnam-era Marine Corps Corporal who deserted from his California base in the summer of 1...
Delbert Tibbs
Released
Delbert Tibbs was a former divinity student whose 1974 conviction and death sentence in Florida became a natio...
Jonathan Walker
Released
Captain Jonathan Walker was a Massachusetts sea captain and abolitionist. In 1844, while sailing seven freedom...
John Williamson
Released
ONE OF ELEVEN COMMUNISTS SENTENCED UNDER DENNIS V. UNITED STATES:
John Williamson, a leader of the communist W...
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