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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.

301Documented
18In custody
195Released
11Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Florida

Where Florida’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 70 2000s 46 2020s 35 1950s 30 1970s 28 2010s 26

Documented cases

301 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

F
F. L. Rodriguez
The January 16, 1932 report individually names the sixteen workers actually arrested November 7, 1931 at the T...
A
Arnold Christopher Lagergren
Released
Arnold Christopher Lagergren, known as Chris Lagergren, was an animal-rights activist and former volunteer at...
W
William Larkins
Released
William Larkins participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the ensuin...
C
Carlos Lezama
Carlos Lezama was identified as a Uruguayan defendant in the Tampa tobacco-workers prosecution in Luis Ortiz’s...
N
Nilo Lima
Nilo Lima was a Tampa tobacco-worker prisoner. A letter in the February 27, 1933 Daily Worker, page 4, individ...
D
David Lippert
Released
David Lippert was ordered before the court in July 1954 in the Dade County 'subversive activities' probe. The...
M
Mack Little
Mack Little was a minor taken to Broward County jail in the May 1933 Pompano roundup. Brust discusses the coer...
B
Bernardo Valdes Londono
Released
Bernardo Valdes Londono was caught in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting along with nine other co-de...
J
Julio Cesar Lopez
Released
Julio Cesar Lopez, Salamanca-cluster money-launderer who oversaw the operations $4-5 million laundering arm. 3...
M
Mario Lopez
Released
Mario Lopez was one of the Tampa Fourteen Tobacco Workers Industrial Union defendants. A May 24, 1933 dispatch...
M
Marko Lopez
Released
Marko Lopez was a Tampa defendant sentenced to a year at the Raiford penitentiary for the 7 November celebrati...
S
Stevie Lynn Lowe
Released
Stevie Lynn Lowe joined the Barley Barber Swamp protest in Florida. A jury acquitted her of trespassing but co...
A
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...
M
Mangus
Mangus was an Apache leader captured with his party during the Army’s 1886 campaign. An October 19 report from...
F
Frank Manuel
Richard Brust identifies Frank Manuel among Black laborers taken to Broward County jail during the May 1933 Po...
C
Charles Marks
Released
Charles Marks was jailed and cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refu...
W
Walter Marks
Released
Walter Marks, son of Charles Marks, was ordered before the court in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activitie...
F
Felix Marrero
The January 16, 1932 report individually names the sixteen workers actually arrested November 7, 1931 at the T...
B
Bill Masters
Released
Bill Masters was a citrus-union worker jailed after authorities accused union members of responsibility for ho...
L
Lawrence H. Mathews
Released
Lawrence H. Mathews was a journalist for the Pensacola Observer in Florida who, in the Fort Delaware State Par...
Q
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...
H
Hampton Milton McCoy III
Released
Hampton Milton McCoy III, 29, of Tampa, FL was charged following his involvement in a Black Lives Matter prote...
K
Kevin McKinley
Released
Kevin McKinley, an Irish national from County Antrim, was linked by authorities to Irish republican procuremen...
R
Ramón Medina Maisonave
Ramón Medina Maisonave was one of six Mayagüez nationalist cadets whom Dávila Marichal identifies as convicted...

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