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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
Recent dashboard entries from Florida
The newest published events and reporting located in Florida, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Florida Senate threatens legal action unless newspapers destroy an insurance report obtained through public records
Arrest
Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano detained by ICE in Orlando; released September 26
Arrest
Evan Meyer arrested after destroying a police decoy made to resemble a Flock camera
Arrest
Venezuelan journalist Wilmer Solano Dávila detained by CBP in Miami Beach; released August 14
Arrest
Jacksonville Beach man arrested after spray-painting Flock cameras across three beach communities
Other
Prosecutors delay appeal in former journalist Timothy Burke's criminal hacking case
Other
Ten Years After the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, Survivors Reflect
Prosecution
Former federal prosecutor Carmen Lineberger was indicted over the sealed volume of the Jack Smith report; the FBI director tied the charges to her work on the Trump classified-documents probe
Documented cases
300 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Jim Nino
Released
Jim Nino was a twenty-year-old leader of the Tampa tobacco workers, sentenced to ten years for strike activity...
Mary A. Nolan
Released
Mary A. Nolan was a suffrage activist who joined the National Woman's Party “Silent Sentinels, ” the group tha...
Manuel Noriega
Released
Manuel Antonio Noriega, the former military ruler of Panama, surrendered to United States forces on January 3,...
Ahmed Obafemi
Released
Ahmed Obafemi, formerly Jesse Dixon, was a New Afrikan organizer associated with the Republic of New Afrika, t...
Mathi Paguth
Released
Mathi Paguth, 40 at the time and of Lake Worth, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Foo...
Richard Frank Parker
Released
Richard Frank Parker was a white Florida State University student and the only white participant in the Negro...
Carrie Patterson
Released
Carrie Patterson was a 20-year-old Florida A&M College student arrested with Wilhelmina Jakes on May 26, 1956...
Ana Isabel Pena Arevalo
Released
Ana Isabel Pena Arevalo, GAAR-cluster defendant. 31 months federal prison + 36 months supervised release.
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...
Freddie Pitts
Released
Freddie Pitts was arrested on August 2, 1963.
Black man who spent more than twelve years in Florida custody,...
Eugene Poulnot
Released
Eugene F. Poulnot was a Socialist Party member, chairman of the Florida Workers’ Alliance and a former preside...
Dane Powell
Released
Dane Powell was the only one of approximately 230 people charged in the federal Disrupt J20 prosecution to ser...
Molka Reich Bare
Released
Molka Reich Bare was cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on...
Annarella Rivera
Released
Annarella Rivera is publicly documented through a federal prosecution involving attacks on pregnancy resource...
Gabriela Saldana
Awaiting Trial
Gabriela Saldana is a Florida International University capstone student who was arrested on April 15, 2026 in...
Mark Schmidter
Released
Mark Edward Schmidter is a Florida contractor, Vietnam veteran and jury-nullification activist associated with...
Gavin Seim
Released
Gavin Seim was Libertarian activist and Congressional candidate who organized rallies protesting gun control m...
Samuel Shepherd
Released
Samuel Shepherd was one of the Groveland Four. WWII Army veteran. Sentenced to death; killed by Sheriff Willis...
Joseph Shoemaker
Released
Joseph Shoemaker was born in Philadelphia. He worked as an actor in Brooklyn and later lived in Bennington, Ve...
Amber Smith-Stewart
Released
Amber Marie Smith-Stewart, gender non-conforming, co-defendant of Caleb Freestone in the Janes Revenge Florida...
Dan B. Speed
Released
Dan B. Speed was the car-pool coordinator of the Inter-Civic Council in Tallahassee, arrested without warrant...
C. K. Steele
Released
C. K. Steele was the Tallahassee NAACP president and leader of the Inter-Civic Council, which ran the Tallahas...
Henry Marion Steele
Released
Henry Marion Steele participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the en...
Dontario J. Stephens
Released
Dontario J. Stephens, 27, of Tampa, FL was charged with grand theft and burglary during a state of emergency f...
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