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2. Ida Luz Rodríguez - Wikipedia

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   Ida Luz was born on July 7, 1950, in Las Marías, Puerto Rico, in 1950.She studied at the Northeastern Illinois University, majoring in psychology and sociology.She participated in community struggles for jobs, housing, and education, and worked at a hospital in the Puerto Rican community that she states blatantly discriminated against the very community it served.

3. Luis Rosa - Wikipedia

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   Luis Rosa is a Puerto Rican nationalist [1] [2] [3] and member of the FALN who received a sentence of 75 years for seditious conspiracy and related charges. [3] He was sentenced on 18 February 1981 and subsequently incarcerated in a U.S. federal prison.

4. José Jiménez (activist) - Wikipedia

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   Nicknamed "Cha Cha", José Jiménez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, to parents Eugenia Rodríguez Flores (1929–2013), of San Lorenzo, and Antonio Jiménez Rodríguez (1924–1973) of San Salvador, Caguas. In 1949, when Jiménez was an infant, his mother Eugenia moved with him from Puerto Rico to New York City.

5. Carlos Alberto Torres (Puerto Rican nationalist) - Wikipedia

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   Some partisans claim Torres was among the longest-serving Puerto Rican political prisoners. Another FALN prisoner, Oscar López Rivera, spent 36 years in prison before his release on February 9, 2017. [10] [11] [12] [2] López Rivera had years added to his sentences due to a violent conspiracy to escape from prison. [13]

6. Metropolitan Detention Center, Guaynabo - Wikipedia

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   MDC Guaynabo is located next to Fort Buchanan U.S. Army base, [1] and is 6 miles (9.7 km) west of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. [2] In the wake of the destruction of Hurricane Maria in September 2017, some 1200 federal prisoners were transferred from Guaynabo to the Federal Correctional Institution, Yazoo City in Mississippi. [3]

7. Oscar López Rivera - Wikipedia

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   Oscar López Rivera (born January 6, 1943) is a Puerto Rican activist and militant who was a member and suspected leader [1] of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN), a clandestine paramilitary organization devoted to Puerto Rican independence that carried out more than 130 bomb attacks in the United States between 1974 and 1983. [1]

8. Today in History: Prisoners land on Alcatraz - AOL

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   81 years ago today, the first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island. On August 11, 1934, the "most dangerous" prisoners in the United States were put on the mysterious island situated 1.5 ...

9. Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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   In March 2012, Puerto Rico contracted with Corrections Corporation of America to send as many as 480 inmates to CCA's Cimarron Correctional Facility near Cushing, Oklahoma. [14] The three-year contract was brought to a premature close in June 2013 after unit-wide fights and "disruptive events", with the inmates sent home.