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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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Gabriella Oropesa
Released
Reproductive justice activist found guilty in August 2025 of federal "conspiracy against rights" charges (18 U...
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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...
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Richard Frank Parker
Released
Richard Frank Parker was a white Florida State University student and the only white participant in the Negro...
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Deep Alpesh Kumar Patel
Released
Deep Alpesh Kumar Patel, 21, of Sarasota FL, called the World Jewish Congress in NYC and left a threatening vo...
C
Carrie Patterson
Released
Carrie Patterson was a Florida A&M College student arrested with Wilhelmina Jakes on May 26, 1956 for sitting...
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Ana Isabel Pena Arevalo
Released
Ana Isabel Pena Arevalo, age 47, GAAR-cluster defendant. 31 months federal prison + 36 months supervised relea...
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Freddie Pitts
Released
Black man who spent 12 years on Florida's death row, convicted by an all-white jury of the 1963 murders of two...
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Carmen Maria Ponton Caro
Released
Carmen Maria Ponton Caro (La Negra), age 38, Salamanca-cluster defendant. 70 months federal prison + 36 months...
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Eugene Poulnot
Released
Eugene Poulnot was the chairman of the Workers' Alliance of Florida, arrested with Joseph Shoemaker in the Nov...
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Lorenzo Puentes
Released
Lorenzo Puentes was a former president of Cigar Makers' Local 500 held for deportation to Cuba as a Communist...
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Wilfredo Puentes
Released
Wilfredo Puentes was Lorenzo's seventeen-year-old son, held for deportation with his father in the 1937 Tampa,...
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Edizon Ramirez Gamboa
Released
Edizon Ramirez Gamboa, age 40, an immigration inspector who helped Salamanca-cluster informants get through Bo...
A
Ali Rehman
Released
South Florida imam Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, and his sons Irfan Khan, 37, and Izhar Khan, 24, allegedl...
M
Molka Reich Bare
Released
Molka Reich Bare was cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on...
A
Annarella Rivera
Released
Annarella Rivera is publicly documented through a federal prosecution involving attacks on pregnancy resource...
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Morris Robinsky
Released
Morris Robinsky was cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for invoking the...
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Hector Rodriguez-Acevedo
Released
Hector Ignacio Rodriguez-Acevedo (Nacho Rodriguez), age 49, conspired to send weapons to the United Self-Defen...
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Sam Rogers
Released
Sam Rogers was a leader of the Modern Democrats, arrested with Joseph Shoemaker in the November 1935 Tampa pol...
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Frances Romero
Released
Frances Romero was a fifty-four-year-old mother of six held in the women's quarters at Raiford in the Tampa to...
A
Anna Rosenblatt
Released
Anna Rosenblatt was cited for contempt with Bertha Teplow on the first day of the Florida Legislative Investig...
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Martin Rutrell
Released
New Afrikan political prisoner held at the Raiford prison complex in Florida, #042600. Listed as a North Ameri...
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Victor Daniel Salamanca
Released
Victor Daniel Salamanca (El Viejito), age 63, lead defendant in the Salamanca cluster - the FARC ICE-sting cas...
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Mike Shantzek
Released
Mike Shantzek was an Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran jailed in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' pr...
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Max Shlafrock
Released
Max Shlafrock was cited and jailed in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on Fift...
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