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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.
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo
Released
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo was the leader of the Wasp Network (La Red Avispa), the Cuban intelligence cell that...
Naudimar Herrera
Released
Naudimar Herrera was the only Liberty City defendant to be acquitted at the third trial. He was held in federa...
Terrance Lee Hester
Released
Terrance Lee Hester Jr., 20, of Tampa, FL was charged with arson after a May 30-31, 2020 protest near a shoppi...
Gamaly Hollis
Released
Gamaly Hollis is a Miami-Dade mother who served 364 days in the Miami-Dade County jail for violating a judge's...
Walter Irvin
Released
Walter Irvin was one of the Groveland Four, young Black men accused of raping a white woman in Lake County, Fl...
Wilhelmina Jakes
Released
Wilhelmina Jakes was a Florida A&M College student whose May 26, 1956 arrest helped begin the Tallahassee bus...
Kifah Wael Jayyousi
Released
Kifah Jayyousi, a co-defendant with Jose Padilla and Adham Hassoun, was a mechanical engineer who ran an organ...
Howard Francis Rockwell Jr.
Howard Francis Rockwell Jr. served three months in federal prison in Tallahassee for Quaker draft-registration...
William Potts Jr.
Released
William Potts was a Black Panther Party member who in 1984 boarded a Miami bound plane and handed the flight a...
Irfan Khan
Released
Irfan Khan is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan who worked in South Florida as a taxi driver, service t...
Izhar Khan
Released
Izhar Khan was an imam at Jamaat Al-Mu’mineen Mosque in Margate, Florida. Federal agents arrested him on May 1...
Wilbert Lee
Released
Wilbert Lee was one of two Black men, with Freddie Lee Pitts, falsely convicted of the August 1963 kidnapping,...
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...
Martina Linnehan
Released
Martina Linnehan was one of the GE Three anti-nuclear protesters prosecuted following an October 1982 action a...
Wendy Loomas
Wendy Loomas was an anti-nuclear activist who joined the Great Peace March in 1986 and organized opposition to...
Rommie Loudd
Released
Rommie Loudd was pro football's first Black owner (of the WFL's Florida Blazers), jailed in Orlando on drug an...
Paul Magno
Released
Paul Magno is a longtime Catholic Worker and Plowshares organizer in the Washington, D.C. area who has been ar...
Krishna Maharaj
Krishna Maharaj, also known as Kris Maharaj, was a Trinidad-born British businessman imprisoned in Florida in...
Stephen R. Mallory
Released
Stephen R. Mallory was a former U.S. senator from Florida and the Confederate secretary of the navy. Stephen R...
Camille Marino
Released
Camille Marino is an American animal-rights organizer and the founder of Negotiation Is Over (NIO), a campaign...
Al McBride
Released
Al McBride was a Marine Workers Industrial Union organizer and First World War veteran active among Tampa's to...
J. E. McDonald
Released
J. E. McDonald was one of the Tampa Fourteen Tobacco Workers Industrial Union defendants. A May 24, 1933 dispa...
Ramón Labañino
Released
Ramón Labañino Salazar was one of the Cuban Five. His life sentence was reduced on appeal to thirty years in 2...
Camilo Mejía
Released
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the first U.S. soldier to publicly refuse to return to Iraq. After leading...
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