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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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Roberto José Maldonado Rivera
Released
Roberto José Maldonado Rivera, a Puerto Rican attorney, was prosecuted in Connecticut in the Wells Fargo robbe...
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Victor Manuel Figueroa
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 Manuel Merced
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 Manuel Verges
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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Grego Marcano Vázquez
Released
Grego Marcano Vázquez was arrested for Minerva Bermúdez / MLK brigade trespass on Vieques range as part of the...
D
Deusdedit Marrero
Released
Deusdedit Marrero was a Puerto Rican Communist and independence figure convicted under Puerto Rico's 'Gag Law'...
G
Gilberto Martínez
A Utuado nationalist who survived the shooting of surrendered captives during the 1950 uprising with wounds in...
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Ignacio Martínez
An elderly farmer imprisoned for fourteen days during the repression following the 1950 uprising because his s...
J
Juan Martínez
Dávila Marichal names Juan Martínez and separately Juan Ramón Martínez as Nationalists previously imprisoned a...
C
Carmen María Pérez
Carmen María Pérez is identified in the account cited by Dávila Marichal as sharing a poorly ventilated cell w...
E
Edmidio Marín
A Jayuya nationalist cadet arrested at his Coabey home after the 1950 uprising. His interview quoted in the th...
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Pedro Matos Matos
President of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño in Utuado, detained for two days and two nights follow...
E
Edgar Maury Santiago
Edgar Maury Santiago was a Puerto Rican independence supporter jailed for refusing federal grand-jury question...
J
José Mayol Sepúlveda
Released
José Mayol Sepúlveda was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy training on Vi...
J
Jorge Maysonet-Hernandez
Released
Jorge Maysonet-Hernandez, a Puerto Rican Communist in his early forties, was one of the eleven defendants in t...
E
Eugenio Medina
Eugenio Medina, a son of Ramón Medina Ramírez, was convicted and sent to prison in the 1941 selective-service...
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Israel Medina Colón
Released
Israel Medina Colón, a University of Puerto Rico law student and student-council president, received a 120-day...
J
José Ángel Medina Figueroa
A Utuado nationalist captured after the surrender at Damián Torres’s house during the 1950 uprising. His testi...
J
Julio Medina González
Dávila Marichal identifies Medina González as a member of the revolutionary committee formed after the United...
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Ramón Medina Ramírez
Ramón Medina Ramírez was a Nationalist leader imprisoned after the 1941 selective-service prosecutions. The th...
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Iván Darío Meléndez Carrión
Released
This entry's identity as a distinct Wells Fargo/Macheteros defendant remains unverified. Primary court and ind...
J
José Meléndez Cotto
Released
José Meléndez Cotto was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...
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Ramon Mirabal
Released
Ramon Mirabal was the secretary-general of the Communist Party of Puerto Rico, arrested in October 1954 in the...
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Andrés Miranda
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