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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.

A
Arnaldo José González
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
José Juan Cora
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
P
Pedro Juan Méndez
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
Z
Zoraida Laboy
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
A
Agustin Lebrón
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
D
Diego Ledée
Released
One of the Vieques 4, sentenced in 1979 to federal prison for protesting US Navy bombing on the island of Vieq...
A
Anne Lee
Released
Anne Lee was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the sust...
C
Consuelo Lee de Corretjer
Released
Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and Nationalist Party activist; wife and political comrade of the poet and Nati...
G
Gerard Liebisch
Released
Gerard Liebisch, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, was sentenced to four years in prison. He served in Atlanta Penit...
H
Hiram Lozada
Released
Hiram Lozada was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the...
R
Rubén Lucena
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
R
Rubén Lugo
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
José Luis Nieves
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
M
Maria Luisa Guzmán
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
R
Rafael López
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
T
Tomás López de Victoria
Released
Tomás López de Victoria was one of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members charged with the murder of two p...
H
Héctor M. Otero
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
Julio M. Ramos
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
U
Ubaldo M. Soto
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
R
Roberto José Maldonado Rivera
Released
Roberto Maldonado Rivera, a Puerto Rican attorney, was arrested in the August 30, 1985 Macheteros roundup and...
J
Juan Manuel Dalmáu
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
V
Victor Manuel Figueroa
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
O
Oswaldo Manuel Merced
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
Juan Manuel Verges
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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
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