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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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John Collier
Released
Reverend John Collier was one of the interfaith Freedom Riders who challenged segregation at the Tallahassee m...
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Comas
Released
Comas was a Tampa worker arrested alongside Young Pioneer leader Frank Guido at an anti-war meeting. Police to...
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Matthew Lee Comiskey
Released
Matthew Lee Comiskey, age 38, of Palm Beach County FL, posted five tweets between August and September 2021 th...
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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Fred Crawford
Released
Fred Crawford was an unemployed-workers' organizer arrested in Tampa, Florida, with Hy Gordon on September 12,...
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Ismael Cruz
Released
Ismael Cruz was a young Tampa tobacco worker prosecuted after the November 7, 1931 meeting at the Labor Temple...
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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...
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Luis Alfredo Daza Morales
Released
Luis Alfredo Daza Morales, age 48, Salamanca-cluster defendant. 30 months federal prison.
The original Southe...
B
Bennie Demps
The newsletter identifies this person in actual Florida State Prison custody and alleges a beating in spring 1...
J
James Edwards (Jaribu)
The July 1975 Black Community News Letter identifies Jaribu as James Edwards, a prisoner at Florida State Pris...
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W. H. Elligan
Released
W. H. Elligan was a Black porter on the Illinois Central Floridan. He disappeared January 26, 1925 after stepp...
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Redding Evans
Redding Evans was a white farmhand, about thirty-two years old, prosecuted in Jefferson County, Florida, for “...
A
Alfred Featherston
Alfred “Al” Featherston was a leader of Miami’s Black Afro Militant Movement (BAMM). A federal jury convicted...
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Philip Feldman
Released
Philip Feldman was jailed in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on Fifth Amendme...
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Joe Ferras
In Exile
Joe Ferras was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor Defender identifies...
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Otto Fiffe
Otto Fiffe was one of three people arrested at a peaceful March 17, 1993 Miami picket outside Radio Mambí oppo...
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Alphonso Figgers
He was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prosecuted for the Septembe...
A
Alvin Flowers
Alvin Flowers was among a group of white men hanged in Gadsden County, Florida, in 1846. The Espy chronology c...
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Johnny Frederick
He was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prosecuted for the Septembe...
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Carlos Gamarra-Murillo
Released
Carlos Gamarra-Murillo, age 54, U.S. citizen, worked as a weapons broker for FARC and was caught in an Immigra...
C
Corey Cardale Gee
Released
On May 31, 2020 Corey Cardale Gee, 28, of Tampa, FL was arrested for unlawful violation of emergency measures...
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Sotero Gonzales
In Exile
Sotero Gonzales was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor Defender identi...
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Hy Gordon
Released
Hy Gordon was an unemployed-workers' organizer arrested in Tampa, Florida, with Fred Crawford on September 12,...
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Emanuel Graff
Released
Emanuel Graff was a Miami labor and civil-rights activist married to Bobbi Graff. During Dade County’s 1954 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