Pennsylvania has more island-born people incarcerated in its prisons than any other state.
In the six states with the largest Puerto Rican population, there are 5,326 men and 148 women who were born in Puerto Rico and are serving sentences ranging from one year to life in a state prison, according to data from December 2022 to February 2023, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo/The Center for Investigative Journalism found.
For about six months, the Puerto Rican investigative outlet submitted information requests to the corrections departments of each of the six states with the most Puerto Ricans — Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut — to get the demographic data on the Puerto Rican population in its prisons. The response and form of delivery of each petition was different and reflects a fragmented, unequal, and deficient information collection system.
The incarceration rate among Latinos or Hispanics was more than 400 per 100,000 inhabitants by 2020. That of whites was less than 200, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s In Florida, the new capital of Puerto Ricans in the United States, there were 1,144 men and 45 women who were born in Puerto Rico serving sentences in state prisons as of February 2023. Of those, five are sentenced to death, including González. Florida is the second state, after Pennsylvania, that has the most Puerto Ricans locked up.
Although it is an incomplete figure, the Puerto Rican population locked up in state prisons in the six states with the most Puerto Ricans is larger than the population of the municipality of Maricao in Puerto Rico, which has 4,755 residents.From the outside, the Eastern State Penitentiary looks like a medieval fortress.
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