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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.

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Wendy King
Released
Wendy King, 36 at the time and of Coral Springs, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Fo...
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William Larkins
Released
William Larkins participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the ensuin...
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Wilbert Lee
Released
Wilbert Lee was one of two Black men, with Freddie Lee Pitts, falsely convicted of the August 1963 kidnapping,...
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Lyglenson Lemorin
Released
Lyglenson Lemorin was a Haitian-born member of the Seas of David and a legal U.S. resident at the time of the...
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David Lippert
Released
David Lippert was ordered before the court in July 1954 in the Dade County 'subversive activities' probe. The...
B
Bernardo Valdes Londono
Released
Bernardo Valdes Londono was caught in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting along with nine other co-de...
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Julio Cesar Lopez
Released
Julio Cesar Lopez, Salamanca-cluster money-launderer who oversaw the operations $4-5 million laundering arm. 3...
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Marko Lopez
Released
Marko Lopez was a Tampa defendant sentenced to a year at the Raiford penitentiary for the 7 November celebrati...
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A. Leon Lowry
Released
The Rev. A. Leon Lowry of Tampa was the Florida state president of the NAACP. In December 1959 the Florida Leg...
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Charles Marks
Released
Charles Marks was jailed and cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refu...
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Walter Marks
Released
Walter Marks, son of Charles Marks, was ordered before the court in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activitie...
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Lawrence H. Mathews
Released
Lawrence H. Mathews was a journalist for the Pensacola Observer in Florida who, in the Fort Delaware State Par...
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Al McBride
Released
Al McBride was a Marine Workers Industrial Union organizer and World War veteran held over seventy-five days w...
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Q. B. McCain
Released
Q. B. McCain was the president of the Miami painters' union, jailed in 1937 amid the anti-labor drive in Flori...
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Joseph McColgin
Released
Joseph McColgin (also widely reported as Joseph McColgan) was an Irish national implicated by U.S. authorities...
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Hampton Milton McCoy III
Released
Hampton Milton McCoy III, 29, of Tampa, FL was charged following his involvement in a Black Lives Matter prote...
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Kevin McKinley
Released
Kevin McKinley, an Irish national from County Antrim, was linked by authorities to Irish republican procuremen...
C
Camilo Mejía
Released
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the first U.S. soldier to publicly refuse to return to Iraq. After leading...
C
Christian Minaya
Released
Christian Minaya, 39 at the time, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs activists a...
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Seamus Moley
Released
Seamus Moley was an Irish national swept into a series of U.S. investigations targeting alleged IRA-linked arm...
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Martin Mullen
Released
Martin Mullen, 30, Irish foreign national, IRA gun-running co-defendant; convicted; 36 months federal prison.
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Angela Nance
Released
Angela Nance participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the ensuing j...
C
Carlos Naranjo
Released
Carlos Naranjo, 36 at the time and of Hollywood, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Fo...
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Jim Nino
Released
Jim Nino was a twenty-year-old leader of the Tampa tobacco workers, sentenced to ten years for strike activity...

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