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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.
The current agency was created by the Constitution of Puerto Rico in 1952. The Department, headquartered in a multi-story building in the Miramar sector of San Juan , includes a structure of District Attorneys to handle criminal caseload, as well as specialized divisions to handle antitrust cases, general civil cases, public integrity ...
Under the Constitution of Puerto Rico, adopted in 1952, the office of Attorney General was renamed to Secretary of Justice. The secretary is appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico and confirmed by the Senate of Puerto Rico. [2] 1952: Víctor Gutiérrez Franqui; 1953–1957: José Trías Monge; 1957–1958: Juan B. Fernandez-Badillo
The Escuela Industrial para Mujeres (Industrial School for Women) is a women's prison in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. The facility has an official capacity of 471 inmates, and opened in 1954. There were 420 women incarcerated in 2015; 97 were imprisoned for controlled substances violations and another 97 for property crimes.
Puerto Rico's history as a territory has created both confusion over the status of its nationals and citizenship and controversy because of distinctions between jurisdictions of the United States. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] These differences have created [ 9 ] what political scientist Charles R. Venator-Santiago has called " separate and unequal " statuses ...
The Puerto Rico Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration [1] —Spanish: Administración de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la Adicción (ASSMCA)— is a Puerto Rico-based organization associated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. [2]
The San Juan Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the city of San Juan, PR, with jurisdiction only [citation needed] in the city limits of San Juan. It is also the largest municipal police force in the commonwealth, and the second largest of any police force in the commonwealth, after the Puerto Rico Police Department.
The last Spanish unit left the island the following October, and the Department of Puerto Rico was established. Upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898, Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the Congress of the United States. In 1901 the island was designated to be an unincorporated United States territory by the Supreme Court of the ...