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WE are PUERTO RICO!

The State Line

The county runs the jail. Puerto Rico decides whether the county has to tell you about it.

Three questions decide how much of this record a resident can get without a lawyer: does anybody inspect the jail, does the law require a death in custody to be reported, and is the result published. We have not yet established the answers for Puerto Rico.

Not yet researched. When it is, the answer goes here and nowhere else — one law layer per state, so the county pages stay about the county.

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Every one of these municipios has a jail, an officer who runs it, and a judge.

The jail belongs to the people who pay for it, the officer who runs it answers to the government those people elect, and the judge decides who sits inside. Three offices, enormous power, and almost nobody watching.

How much is your jail — and the officials who run it — costing you?

The JailWho it holds, what it costs, and who dies in it.
The Police CommissionerRuns the jail and the force that fills it.
The JudgeSets bond — which decides who waits in that jail and who goes home.

Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths. The Justice Department is required to count deaths in custody and does not do it properly — a Senate investigation found it failed to identify more than 990 such deaths in a single year. MoBetta is building the county-by-county record instead.

Your VOTE is POWERFUL.

The sheriffs who run these jails are elected. So are the commissioners who pay for them.

Register to vote in Puerto Rico →

Deadlines, ID rules and Puerto Rico’s own election office, from vote.gov — the official U.S. government voter site. Where you vote on the day is set by your county election office.

Puerto Rico — municipio records in progress. Hover any municipio above; the pages open next.