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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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Jerry Frank Townsend
Released
Jerry Frank Townsend was imprisoned in Florida for nearly 22 years after convictions based on false confession...
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Reinaldo Trilla
Reinaldo Trilla was one of six Mayagüez nationalist cadets whom Dávila Marichal identifies as convicted for re...
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Jose Tito Libio Ulloa Melo
Released
Jose Tito Libio Ulloa Melo, age 46, Salamanca-cluster defendant; airport-security contact. 30 months federal p...
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Caroline Vasquez
Released
Caroline Vasquez, also called Carolina Vasquez, was a Tampa woman imprisoned after protesting the arrest of he...
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Francisca Vasquez
Released
Francisca Vasquez was Caroline's mother, also sentenced to a year in the Tampa case in the Tampa tobacco-strik...
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Nicholas Vazquez
Released
Nicholas Vazquez, 22 at the time and of Miami, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Food...
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A. Vega (Tampa deportee, 1933)
In Exile
A. Vega (Tampa deportee, 1933) was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor...
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Ellen Vessels
Released
Ellen Vessels, 34 at the time, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs activists arre...
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Joseph Wall
Released
Joseph "Jody" Wall was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist in St. Petersburg, Florida. On Dec...
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Paul Wheeler
Paul Wheeler was a Navy Nuclear Power School student in Orlando who sought conscientious-objector discharge. A...
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Tommy Williams
Released
Tommy Williams was a St. Petersburg Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist arrested and jailed dur...
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Fred Willis
Page 2's March 31 St. Petersburg dispatch identifies Fred Willis as a Black relief worker held nearly four mon...
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Orlando Bosch Ávila
Orlando Bosch Ávila, also known as Ernesto, led Cuban Power, a militant anti-Castro exile organization. A fede...
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