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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.
192Documented
12In custody
174Released
3Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Florida
Where Florida’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2000s 46
1950s 29
2020s 26
1930s 25
2010s 23
1960s 18
Documented cases
192 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Siobhan Browne
Released
Siobhan Browne, 37, US citizen, was charged July 26, 1999 with conspiracy to mail weapons and Arms Export Cont...
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Barbara Broxton
Released
Barbara Broxton was a 20-year-old Florida A&M student arrested in the Tallahassee lunch-counter sit-ins on Feb...
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John Broxton
Released
John Broxton participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the ensuing j...
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John Wesley Bryant
Released
John Wesley Bryant was a St. Petersburg member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee arrested and j...
A
Alexis Butler
Released
Alexis Butler, 25 at the time and of Dania Beach, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale F...
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David Butler
Released
David Butler was a 17-year-old Black Communist in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, arrested on a trum...
A
Angel Cabrera
Released
Angel Cabrera was a Tampa defendant sent to the Indiantown road camp, his hands bleeding from grading with a s...
J
Jose Carbonell
Released
Jose Carbonell was jailed for one year without bail in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for...
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Clement Carney
Released
Clement Carney participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the ensuing...
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Maurice Carroll
Released
Maurice Carroll was a Jewish Cultural Center director cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive a...
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Izell Chambers
Released
Izell Chambers was one of the four Black Florida defendants sentenced to death on coerced confessions whose ca...
C
Conor Claxton
Released
Conor Claxton, 27, Irish foreign national, was indicted July 26, 1999 in Florida along with co-defendants Anth...
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John Collier
Released
John Collier was one of a group of clergymen who rode as Freedom Riders to test segregated facilities in Flori...
C
Comas
Released
Comas was a worker arrested with Frank Guido at the platform and beaten though never charged in the Tampa toba...
M
Matthew Lee Comiskey
Released
Matthew Lee Comiskey, age 38, of Palm Beach County FL, posted five tweets between August and September 2021 th...
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Nancy Conde Rubio
Released
Nancy Conde Rubio, age 37, a high-ranking FARC member who oversaw the FARCs logistics and communications netwo...
J
Jose Maria Corredor-Ibague
Released
Jose Maria Corredor-Ibague (Boyaco), age 46, ran a Colombian cocaine-manufacturing and -transportation network...
A
Anthony Richard Couse III
Released
Anthony Richard Couse III, 51, of West Palm Beach, FL (homeless at time of arrest) was charged with two feloni...
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Jack Crawford
Released
Jack Crawford was a Tampa, Florida Communist arrested in the early 1930s and, in the same police-to-Klan patte...
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Ismael Cruz
Released
Ismael Cruz was a Tampa defendant sentenced to a year and sent to the Indiantown road camp in the Everglades i...
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Bob Davis
Released
Bob Davis was a Black Communist of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in whose house the party meeting was held when it...
C
Charlie Davis
Released
Charlie Davis was one of the four Black Florida defendants sentenced to death on coerced confessions whose cas...
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Luis Alfredo Daza Morales
Released
Luis Alfredo Daza Morales, age 48, Salamanca-cluster defendant. 30 months federal prison.
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Hatem Naji Fariz
Released
Hatem Naji Fariz, 36, PIJ Tampa co-defendant; convicted on some counts; 37 months federal prison + 36 months s...
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