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prima:Centro de Estudios Avanzados transforms old prison into its home: “The idea is for this to be the new cultural center of San Juan”

The leadership of the institution hopes that the building, which was completed in 1937, will begin receiving master’s and doctoral students starting in January

November 18, 2024 - 3:43 PM

The new home of the Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean will be the former San Juan Municipal Jail in Puerta de Tierra. (Xavier Araújo)

It has been almost 90 years since its construction, but time has not erased the traces of the old San Juan Municipal Prison, in Puerta de Tierra; the cell doors eaten away by neglect, its keys from the 1930s - worn, but functional -, original pavilions, bars and windows. One wall preserves, in dark paint, the shape of the tools used by the inmates.

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