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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.
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Pedro Colón Almenas
Released
Pedro Colón Almenas was arrested for Aggravated assault on ROTC official at University of Puerto Rico Río Pied...
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Luis Alfredo Colón Osorio
Released
Luis Colón Osorio was indicted in the 1985 Wells Fargo case but evaded the August 30, 1985 sweep and lived as...
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Edgardo Cordero
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Froilán Cordero
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Luis Ángel Correa
Released
Luis Ángel Correa was one of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members charged with the murder of two policem...
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Felicita Cotto
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Oswaldo Cruz
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Ángel Cruz
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Jorge Cruz Hernandez
Released
Jorge Cruz Hernandez served 18 months in federal prison at FCI Edgefield, South Carolina for civil disobedienc...
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Juan Ramón Cruz Pérez
Released
Juan Ramón Cruz Pérez was arrested for Trespass on Vieques bombing range as part of the sustained 1999-2003 ci...
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Eugenio Cuebas Arbona
Released
Eugenio Cuebas Arbona was one of the eleven defendants in Puerto Rico's first Smith Act prosecution, arrested...
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Nydia Esther Cuevas
Released
Nydia Esther Cuevas (Cuevas Rivera) is a Puerto Rican independence activist who, with Pablo Marcano García, se...
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Carlos David Aviles
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Cándido De Jesús
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Raúl Diaz
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Luis Domenech
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Gustavo Dávila Cardona
Released
Gustavo Dávila Cardona was arrested for Minerva Bermúdez / MLK brigade trespass on Vieques range as part of th...
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Ángel Díaz Ruiz
Released
Ángel Díaz Ruiz was a member of Los Macheteros (the Boricua Popular Army) charged in connection with the group...
C
Carlos E. Marrero
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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César Eduardo Gutiérrez
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Rosa Elena Sepúlveda
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Iván Elías Rodríguez
Released
Iván Elías Rodríguez was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...
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Ángel Emilio Rivera
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
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Juan Emmanuelli
Released
Juan Emmanuelli was one of the eleven defendants in Puerto Rico's first Smith Act case. A former Communist no...
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