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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.
478Documented
1In custody
334Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Puerto Rico
Where Puerto Rico’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2000s 274
1950s 91
1930s 33
1980s 24
1970s 22
1940s 20
Recent dashboard entries from Puerto Rico
The newest published events and reporting located in Puerto Rico, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Activists protest ICE detentions in a San Juan neighborhood
Arrest
Tito Kayak arrested at an anti-government protest outside La Fortaleza
Protest
Madres Contra la Guerra protest US militarization at Muniz Air Base
Documented cases
478 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Plinio Graciani
Released
Plinio Graciani was a Puerto Rican Nationalist organizer in Ponce and a commander of its Cadets of the Republi...
D
Dara Guadalupe
Released
Dara Guadalupe participated in a 2000 civil-disobedience action against U.S. Navy operations in Vieques. In th...
Y
Yaurel Guadalupe
Released
Yaurel Guadalupe participated in a 2000 civil-disobedience action against U.S. Navy operations in Vieques. In...
H
Héctor Guillermo Diaz
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
W
Wilfredo Guzmán
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
M
Marcos Guzmán Rodríguez
A collaborator of Ramón Emeterio Betances imprisoned for protesting the 1898 United States invasion of Puerto...
R
Roberto A. Gándara Barnett
Released
Roberto A. Gándara Barnett was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy training...
O
Omar Gómez Couvertier
Released
Omar Gómez Couvertier was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy training on V...
E
Edgardo Hernández
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
E
Eric Hernández
Eric Hernández is identified among young Vieques residents who were tried and imprisoned during the struggle a...
M
Milagros Hernández
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
M
Modesto Hernández
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
P
Pedro Hernández
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
T
Tania Hernández Carrión
Released
Tania Hernández Carrión was arrested for Trespass on Vieques bombing range as part of the sustained 1999-2003...
S
Santos Rubén Hernández García
Released
Santos Rubén Hernández García was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico...
G
Gregorio Hernández Rivera
Known as Goyito, a nationalist wounded during the October 30,1950 attack on La Fortaleza. The thesis explicitl...
M
Manuel Hoffman
Manuel Hoffman was arrested during the Puerto Rican sugar and waterfront strike movement. The Daily Worker of...
J
José Humberto Santos
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
F
Fidel Irizarry
A Jayuya nationalist cadet whom Heriberto Marín’s memoir identifies among the captured nationalists led down f...
P
Pedro Iván Parrilla
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
E
Edwin J. Figueroa
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
Juan Jaca Hernández
Released
Juan Jaca Hernández was an Arecibo commander of the Cadets of the Republic. Imprisoned after the 1950 National...
F
Francisco Javier González
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
O
Omar José Colón
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
MDC GuaynaboSan Juan, Puerto Rico
15 cases
La PrincesaSan Juan, Puerto Rico
9 cases
Vega Alta Women's PrisonVega Alta, Puerto Rico
4 cases
Arecibo Women's JailArecibo, Puerto Rico
1 case
District Jail, AreciboArecibo, Puerto Rico
1 case