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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.

B
Bundie Brown, Jr.
The July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dragon, individually listed Bundie Brown, Jr. in its...
A
Armando Lopez
Armando Lopez was a Tampa labor militant sentenced to twenty-six days on the chain gang, described by the Janu...
C
Cesario Alvarez
In Exile
Cesario Alvarez was imprisoned on a Florida chain gang in connection with the 1931 Tampa tobacco workers’ stri...
P
Panchito Valdez
Panchito Valdez is identified as the seventy-one-year-old Black president of Tampa’s Labor Temple, controlled...
E
Earl Dent
Earl Dent was a twenty-five-year-old Black unemployed man in Jacksonville, Florida. A June 12, 1933 Daily Work...
A
Alfred (Arthur Smith's brother, McCleny peonage victim)
The July 1937 Southern Worker identifies Alfred among three Black turpentine workers forcibly returned to Will...
J
Jose Abrantes
Page 12 identifies Jose Abrantes as a Tampa Tobacco Workers Industrial Union leader brought to the United Stat...
P
P. Aedaya
In Exile
P. Aedaya was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor Defender identifies a...
R
R. V. Aguila
In Exile
R. V. Aguila was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor Defender identifie...
M
Mazen Al-Najjar
Released
Mazen Al-Najjar, a Palestinian academic and former University of South Florida instructor, was held in immigra...
C
Cornelius C. Allen
Released
Cornelius C. Allen, 45, of Tampa, FL was charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure, felony rioting, and...
R
Richard D. Bailey
In Exile
Richard D. Bailey was one of the Intrepid Four, four enlisted U.S. Navy sailors who deserted the aircraft carr...
T
Terrell Bailey-Corsey
Awaiting Trial
Terrell Bailey-Corsey was arrested on July 18, 2025 after federal prosecutors alleged that he posted threats t...
E
Edward Baker (McCleny peonage victim)
The July 1937 Southern Worker identifies Edward Baker among three Black turpentine workers forcibly returned t...
G
Ghassan Zayed Ballut
Released
Ghassan Zayed Ballut, 47, PIJ Tampa co-defendant; found not guilty on all 27 counts that went to verdict; 7 di...
Y
Yarlei Banol-Ramos
Released
Yarlei Bañol-Ramos, also known as Diana, was taken into Panamanian police custody on February 22, 2008 after a...
H
Homer Barton
Homer Barton was active in the struggles of Tampa tobacco workers. A January 17, 1933 dispatch in the next day...
J
Jorge De Los Reyes Bautista Martinez
Released
Jorge Bautista Martinez was caught in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting along with nine other co-de...
J
J. A. Beaumont
Released
J. A. Beaumont was an electrician from Ocala, Florida. J. A. Beaumont was sentenced to five years in prison. H...
L
Leah Benemovsky
Released
Leah Benemovsky was cited and jailed in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on Fi...
D
Darío Berríos
Darío Berríos was one of six Mayagüez nationalist cadets whom Dávila Marichal identifies as convicted for refu...
R
Robert Wayne Beverly
Robert Wayne Beverly was a Vietnam Veterans Against the War member from Austin, Texas, jailed twice in Tallaha...
S
Soliman S. Biheiri
Released
Soliman Biheiri ran an investment company that adhered to Islamic principles. He lied on his U.S. citizenship...
A
Augusta Birnberg
Released
Augusta Birnberg was cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on...

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