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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.

María de Lordes Santiago
Released
María de Lordes Santiago was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as...
D
Dámaso
Released
Dámaso was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the sustai...
A
Amilcar A. Alicea
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
C
Carlos A. Frontera
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
C
Carlos A. Navarro
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
R
Reynaldo Acevedo
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
I
Isaias Agosto
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
L
Luis Agroni
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
C
Carlos Alberto Escobales
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
P
Pedro Alicea
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
R
Ramón Alicea Flores
Released
One of the Vieques 4, sentenced in 1979 to federal prison for protesting US Navy bombing on Vieques. He served...
I
Iván Alonso
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
Johny Alverio
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
Juan Alverio
Released
Juan Alverio was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the...
L
Luis A. Amely Martínez
Released
Luis A. Amely Martínez was arrested for PR Independence Party brigade trespass on Vieques as part of the susta...
M
Manuel Antonio Diaz
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
F
Félix Aponte González
Released
Félix Aponte González was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as par...
L
Luis Armando Rivera
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
A
Abraham Ayala Ortiz
Released
Abraham Ayala Ortiz was arrested for PR Independence Party brigade trespass on Vieques as part of the sustaine...
C
Carlos Ayes Suárez
Released
Carlos Ayes Suárez was arrested in the August 30, 1985 Macheteros operation and accepted a plea agreement on c...
J
Jesús M. Balzac
Released
Jesús M. Balzac edited El Baluarte, a newspaper in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. In two articles published on 16 and 2...
P
Petra Barreras del Río
Released
Petra Barreras del Río was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as pa...
B
Brian Barrett
Released
Brian Barrett was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the...
F
Francisco Bartolomei Crespo
Released
Francisco Bartolomei Crespo was arrested for PR Independence Party brigade trespass on Vieques as part of the...

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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