Learn More → State by State
Puerto Rico
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 Puerto Rico.
295Documented
0In custody
294Released
Eras of repression in Puerto Rico
Where Puerto Rico’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2000s 213
1950s 26
1980s 25
1930s 19
1970s 6
1910s 5
Documented cases
295 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
P
Pablo Rosado Ortiz
Released
Pablo Rosado Ortiz was a member of the Cadets of the Republic, the youth corps of the Puerto Rican Nationalist...
C
Carlos Rosario Pantojas
Released
Puerto Rican independentista jailed on civil contempt charges for refusing to testify before a federal grand j...
J
Juan Saez Corales
Released
Juan Saez Corales was a veteran Puerto Rican labor leader and Communist, a candidate for the island's House of...
R
Reynaldo Salivas Gonzalez
Released
Reynaldo Salivas Gonzalez was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as...
M
Monserrate Sanchez
Released
Monserrate Sanchez, from Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, received a sentence of four years in prison, which was comm...
A
Angel Rubén Santiago Aponte
Released
Angel Rubén Santiago Aponte was arrested for PR Independence Party brigade trespass on Vieques as part of the...
Z
Zoraida Santiago Buitrago
Released
Zoraida Santiago Buitrago was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as...
E
Ediberto Santiago Diaz
Released
Ediberto Santiago Diaz was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as pa...
V
Vidal Santiago Diaz
Released
Vidal Santiago Díaz was Pedro Albizu Campos's barber, besieged for hours and shot and wounded by police and Na...
C
Carlos Al Santiago Rivera
Released
Carlos Al Santiago Rivera was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as...
A
Andrés Santos Ortiz
Released
Andrés Santos Ortiz was arrested for MST brigade occupation of Vieques bombing range as part of the sustained...
R
Ricardo Santos Ortiz
Released
Ricardo Santos Ortiz was arrested for MST brigade occupation of Vieques bombing range as part of the sustained...
J
Juan Santos Rivera
Released
Juan Santos Rivera was the president of the Communist Party of Puerto Rico, arrested in October 1954 in the fi...
A
Adalberto Serrano
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
O
Oliverio Serrano
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
M
Mauro Simpson
Released
Mauro Simpson was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the...
E
Enrique Soto
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
S
Samuel Soto Bosques
Released
Samuel Soto Bosques was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...
O
Orlando Soto Morales
Released
Orlando Soto Morales was arrested for Minerva Bermúdez / MLK brigade trespass on Vieques range as part of the...
R
Rosalinda Soto Toledo
Released
Rosalinda Soto Toledo was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as par...
J
Javier Sterling
Released
Javier Sterling was arrested for Pablo Soto Brigade trespass on Navy bombing range (university student) as par...
G
Gazir Sued-Jiménez
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
L
Luis Angel Torres
Released
Luis Angel Torres was arrested for MST brigade member, Vieques as part of the sustained 1999-2003 civil-disobe...
M
Mariel Torres Lara
Released
Mariel Torres Lara was arrested for MST brigade occupation of Vieques bombing range as part of the sustained 1...
Institutions in Puerto Rico
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Puerto Rico that appear in the census’s case files.
Metropolitan Detention Center GuaynaboGuaynabo, Puerto Rico
95 cases
Federal Detention Center, GuaynaboSan Juan, Puerto Rico
93 cases
Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) GuaynaboGuaynabo, Puerto Rico
20 cases
La PrincesaSan Juan, Puerto Rico
9 cases
MDC GuaynaboSan Juan, Puerto Rico
2 cases
Vega Alta Women's PrisonVega Alta, Puerto Rico
1 case
Arecibo Women's JailArecibo, Puerto Rico
1 case
District Jail, AreciboArecibo, Puerto Rico
1 case