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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
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
301 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Juan Roberto Melendez
Juan Roberto Melendez spent more than seventeen years on Florida’s death row after a 1984 murder and armed-rob...
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Christian Minaya
Released
Christian Minaya, 39 at the time, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs activists a...
S
Seamus Moley
Released
Seamus Moley was an Irish national prosecuted in two U.S. arms-procurement cases connected to the Provisional...
D
Daniel Moore
Released
Daniel Moore was one of the GE Three anti-nuclear protesters prosecuted following an October 1982 action at Ge...
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Felix Morrero
Released
Felix Morrero was one of the Tampa Fourteen Tobacco Workers Industrial Union defendants. A May 24, 1933 dispat...
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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...
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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...
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Luis Manuel O'Neill
Luis Manuel O'Neill was one of six Mayagüez nationalist cadets whom Dávila Marichal identifies as convicted fo...
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Gabriella Oropesa
Released
Gabriella Victoria Oropesa, also known as Gabs, Gaby, and Gummy, was the only one of four Florida abortion-rig...
E
Eviqueta Palacios
The January 20 Tampa bulletin printed in the February 1933 Labor Defender names Eviqueta Palacios among three...
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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...
A
Anthony Ray Peek
Anthony Ray Peek was imprisoned on Florida’s death row after a 1978 murder and sexual-battery conviction. His...
C
Carmen Maria Ponton Caro
Released
Carmen Maria Ponton Caro (La Negra), age 38, Salamanca-cluster defendant. 70 months federal prison + 36 months...
T
Tom Powell (Florida anti-draft defendant)
The Florida account specifically says Powell pleaded guilty and had long since completed a federal prison term...
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Lorenzo Puentes
Released
Lorenzo Puentes was a Tampa cigar worker, former president of Cigar Makers’ Local 500 and member of the Commun...
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Wilfredo Puentes
Released
Wilfredo Puentes was a seventeen-year-old threatened with deportation to Cuba in Tampa, Florida. His father, L...
L
Lynne Purvis
Released
Lynne Purvis is an environmental activist jailed after an Everglades-area power-plant blockade. Following rele...
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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
Awaiting Trial
Ali Rehman, also identified in the indictment as Faisal Ali Rehman, was a resident of Pakistan charged by a fe...
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Doss Roberts
Page 5’s June 8 Miami report names Doss Roberts, thirty-three, a railway worker, as still held despite collaps...
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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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Leonard Rockwell
Leonard Rockwell served three months in federal prison in Tallahassee for Quaker draft-registration refusal in...
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Marvin Rockwell
Marvin Rockwell served three months in federal prison in Tallahassee for Quaker draft-registration refusal in...
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