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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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Jorge Bascage
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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Isaac Bennejo
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
C
Casimiro Berenguer
Released
Casimiro Berenguer was one of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members charged with the murder of two police...
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Wigberto Berrios
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 Berrios
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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Luz María Berríos Berríos
Released
Macheteros member arrested in the 1985 federal sweep connected to the Wells Fargo Hartford expropriation. She...
W
William Boria
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
J
Jimmy Borrero
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
C
Consuelo Burgos
Released
Consuelo Burgos was one of two women among the eleven defendants in Puerto Rico's first Smith Act case, indict...
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Norma Burgos
Released
Norma Burgos, a sitting senator of Puerto Rico from the New Progressive Party, was among the protesters arrest...
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Francisco Báez
Released
Francisco Báez was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of th...
R
Rodrigo Báez
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
A
Armando Caban Vega
Released
Armando Caban Vega was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part o...
J
Jesús Cabrera Cirilo
Released
Jesús Cabrera Cirilo was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...
J
Jaime Camacho
Released
One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...
A
Antonio Camacho Negron
Released
Antonio Camacho Negrón was a member of Los Macheteros arrested in the August 30, 1985 mass FBI raid in Puerto...
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Isaac Camacho Negrón
Released
Isaac Camacho Negrón was a member of Los Macheteros (the Boricua Popular Army), the clandestine Puerto Rican i...
R
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Released
Rafael Cancel Miranda was 23 years old at the time of the March 1, 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representa...
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William Candelario
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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Roberto Caraltini
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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Elías Samuel Castro
Released
Macheteros member arrested in the August 1985 federal sweep connected to the 1983 Wells Fargo Hartford expropr...
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Martín Castro Avila
Released
Martín Castro Avila was arrested for MST second brigade trespass on Vieques range as part of the sustained 199...
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Luis Castro Quesada
Released
Luis Castro Quesada was one of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members charged with the murder of two polic...
E
Elías Samuel Castro Ramos
Released
Elías Samuel Castro Ramos was a Puerto Rican independence activist arrested on August 30, 1985 in the mass FBI...

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