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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.
184Documented
12In custody
166Released
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 13
Documented cases
184 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Omali Yeshitela
Released
Omali Yeshitela is a longtime Black liberation organizer and the founding leader of the African People's Socia...
David Levy Yulee
Released
David Levy Yulee, a former U.S. senator from Florida, was accused of having encouraged the seizure of federal...
F
Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez
In Custody
Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez, age 36, an ELN (National Liberation Army) member, supplied weapons shipments...
E
Erminso Cuevas Cabrera
In Custody
Erminso Cuevas Cabrera (Mincho) was extradited from Colombia, tried, and convicted of FARC narcotics conspirac...
J
Juan Jose Martinez Vega
In Custody
Juan Jose Martinez Vega (Chiguiro) was extradited from Colombia, tried, and convicted of FARC narcotics conspi...
P
Patrick Abraham
Released
Patrick Abraham was a Haitian national legally residing in the United States and a member of the Seas of David...
M
Mazen Al-Najjar
Released
Mazen Al-Najjar, 62, PIJ Tampa co-defendant on a visa overstay; deported on visa overstay rather than serving...
C
Cornelius C. Allen
Released
Cornelius C. Allen, 45, of Tampa, FL was charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure, felony rioting, and...
J
Jackie Allen
Released
Catholic peace activist and one of seven participants in the Pershing Plowshares action on April 22, 1984, ham...
B
Burson Augustin
Released
Burson Augustin was the youngest of the convicted Liberty City defendants — barely 21 years old at the time of...
G
Ghassan Zayed Ballut
Released
Ghassan Zayed Ballut, 47, PIJ Tampa co-defendant; found not guilty on all 27 counts that went to verdict; 7 di...
Y
Yarlei Banol-Ramos
Released
Yarlei Banol-Ramos (Diana), age 35, was captured with Ibarguen-Palacio off Panama in 2009 during a firefight w...
N
Narseal Batiste
Released
Narseal Batiste was the founder and acknowledged spiritual leader of the Seas of David, the small Liberty City...
J
Jorge De Los Reyes Bautista Martinez
Released
Jorge Bautista Martinez was caught in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting along with nine other co-de...
J
J. A. Beaumont
Released
J. A. Beaumont, an electrician from Ocala, Florida, was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Atlant...
L
Leah Benemovsky
Released
Leah Benemovsky was cited and jailed in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on Fi...
S
Soliman S. Biheiri
Released
Soliman Biheiri ran an investment company that adhered to Islamic principles. He lied on his U.S. citizenship...
A
Augusta Birnberg
Released
Augusta Birnberg was cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on...
S
Siobhan Browne
Released
Siobhan Browne, 37, US citizen, was charged July 26, 1999 with conspiracy to mail weapons and Arms Export Cont...
B
Barbara Broxton
Released
Barbara Broxton was a 20-year-old Florida A&M student arrested in the Tallahassee lunch-counter sit-ins on Feb...
J
John Wesley Bryant
Released
John Wesley Bryant was a St. Petersburg member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee arrested and j...
A
Alexis Butler
Released
Alexis Butler, 25 at the time and of Dania Beach, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale F...
D
David Butler
Released
David Butler was a 17-year-old Black Communist in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, arrested on a trum...
A
Angel Cabrera
Released
Angel Cabrera was a Tampa defendant sent to the Indiantown road camp, his hands bleeding from grading with a s...
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