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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.

Patricia Gloria Stephens Due
Released
Patricia Gloria Stephens Due, a Florida A&M student and CORE organizer, was arrested during the February 20, 1...
Bryn Taylor
Released
Bryn Taylor, University of Florida PhD candidate, was arraigned May 16, 2023 for allegedly battering an office...
Harold Taylor
Released
Taylor, living in Panama City by the 2000s, was one of the former Black Panthers arrested when the decades-old...
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 1975 death sentence in Florida became a...
Gregory William Loel Timm
Released
Gregory William Loel Timm, drove a minivan into a tent of Republican volunteers running a voter-registration b...
Panagioti Tsolkas
Released
Panagioti Tsolkas is an environmental organizer associated with Everglades Earth First! and the Palm Beach Cou...
Jonathan Walker
Released
Jonathan Walker was a Massachusetts sea captain and abolitionist. In 1844, while sailing seven freedom seekers...
Harold Webb
In Exile
Harold Webb was a U.S. Army sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida, and one of 21 American Korean War prisoners w...
Jack Williamson
Released
Jack Williamson was a Black tenant farmer arrested in the May 1933 roundup following the robbery and killing o...
Walter Woodard
Released
Walter Woodard was a Black tenant farmer arrested in Pompano, Florida, on May 14, 1933, during the roundup tha...
William Worthy
Released
William Worthy was an African American journalist who in 1955 traveled to Moscow and became the first American...
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 was a former U.S. senator from Florida. David Levy Yulee was accused of having encouraged the...
Alam Zeb
Awaiting Trial
Alam Zeb Khan was a 19-year-old student in Pakistan’s Swat district when a federal grand jury in Miami indicte...
Ivan Jacob Zecher
Released
Ivan Jacob Zecher was arrested on May 31, 2020. On June 10, 2020 in Jacksonville, FL, Ivan Jacob Zecher, 27,...
F
Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez
In Custody
Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez, an ELN (National Liberation Army) member, supplied weapons shipments to the C...
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...
L
Leonard Baraka Stroble
Leonard Baraka Stroble is individually listed in the July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dra...
B
Benjamin Holland
Benjamin Holland is individually listed in the July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dragon, i...
B
Bundie Brown, Jr.
Bundie Brown, Jr. is individually listed in the July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dragon,...
A
Armando Lopez
Armando Lopez was a Tampa labor militant sentenced to twenty-six days on the chain gang, described by the Janu...
C
Cesario Alvarez
In Exile
Cesario Alvarez was imprisoned on a Florida chain gang in connection with the 1931 Tampa tobacco workers’ stri...

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