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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.
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Panchito Valdez
Panchito Valdez is identified as the seventy-one-year-old Black president of Tampa’s Labor Temple, controlled...
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Earl Dent
Earl Dent was a twenty-five-year-old Black unemployed man in Jacksonville, Florida. A June 12, 1933 Daily Work...
P
Priscilla Stephens
Priscilla Stephens participated in the 1960 Tallahassee lunch-counter sit-ins and jail-in against segregation....
A
Alfred
Alfred is identified in the July 1937 Southern Worker among three Black turpentine workers forcibly returned t...
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Jose Abrantes
Jose Abrantes is identified in Page 12 as a Tampa Tobacco Workers Industrial Union leader brought to the Unite...
P
P. Aedaya
In Exile
P. Aedaya was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor Defender identifies a...
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R. V. Aguila
In Exile
R. V. Aguila was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor Defender identifie...
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Mazen Al-Najjar
Released
Mazen Al-Najjar, a Palestinian academic and former University of South Florida instructor, was held in immigra...
C
Cornelius C. Allen
Released
Cornelius C. Allen, 45, of Tampa, FL was charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure, felony rioting, and...
A
Alejandro M. Alonso
Alejandro M. Alonso was individually named in an FBI announcement of ten arrests in South Florida on September...
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Richard D. Bailey
In Exile
Richard D. Bailey was one of the Intrepid Four, four enlisted U.S. Navy sailors who deserted the aircraft carr...
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Terrell Bailey-Corsey
Awaiting Trial
Terrell Bailey-Corsey was arrested on July 18, 2025 after federal prosecutors alleged that he posted threats t...
E
Edward Baker
Edward Baker is identified in the July 1937 Southern Worker among three Black turpentine workers forcibly retu...
G
Ghassan Zayed Ballut
Released
Ghassan Zayed Ballut, PIJ Tampa co-defendant; found not guilty on all 27 counts that went to verdict; 7 dismis...
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Yarlei Banol-Ramos
Released
Yarlei Bañol-Ramos, also known as Diana, was taken into Panamanian police custody on February 22, 2008 after a...
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Homer Barton
Homer Barton was active in the struggles of Tampa tobacco workers. A January 17, 1933 dispatch in the next day...
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Jorge De Los Reyes Bautista Martinez
Released
Jorge De Los Reyes Bautista Martinez was arrested on January 26, 2006.
Jorge Bautista Martinez was caught in...
J
J. A. Beaumont
Released
J. A. Beaumont was an electrician from Ocala, Florida. J. A. Beaumont was sentenced to five years in prison. H...
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Leah Benemovsky
Released
Leah Benemovsky was cited and jailed in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on Fi...
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Darío Berríos
Released
Darío Berríos was one of six Mayagüez nationalist cadets whom Dávila Marichal identifies as convicted for refu...
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Robert Wayne Beverly
Robert Wayne Beverly was a Vietnam Veterans Against the War member from Austin, Texas, jailed twice in Tallaha...
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Soliman S. Biheiri
Released
Soliman S. Biheiri was arrested on June 15, 2003.
Soliman Biheiri ran an investment company that adhered to I...
A
Augusta Birnberg
Released
Augusta Birnberg was cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on...
J
John Black
John Black was among a group of white men hanged in Gadsden County, Florida, in 1846. The Espy chronology clas...
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