It's impossible to know how many Puerto Rican people are incarcerated in Pa. correctional facilities. Advocates say that is a problem.
, a nonprofit organization that investigates racial discrimination in the U.S. penal system. Among Puerto Ricans sentenced to life without parole in the state, 192 were charged with first-degree murder, which is when the victim’s death is considered intentional. And 34 were charged with second-degree murder, which is when the victim’s death is considered unintentional.
Among the 1,431 Puerto Ricans incarcerated in Pennsylvania, 60 noted that their legal place of residence was Puerto Rico. “I was bad, I sold drugs, I smoked, young … I used crack, heroin, cocaine, I used everything. And my mom couldn’t stand me, so she threw me out.”displaced by racism and gentrification
“My cellmate in state was a boy I had known since I was 10 years old, from Hunting Park. A Boricua from the streets for real. He was doing 10 years. He’s settled down now and is remodeling houses. In any prison you go to, you will meet someone from the street,” Serrano said. , broad and ambiguous terms that have made Puerto Ricans and the national origin of Latino people invisible.Serrano was released from state prison in 1992. He went back to his old ways, to the same neighborhood of his native Philadelphia, but to a different corner. Before he was on the corner of Hancock and Dauphin Streets, or Fifth and Glenwood.
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