Puerto Rico ranks 17th in the United States* in 2018 for the number of active criminal human trafficking cases making their way through federal courts. The state had 13 active criminal cases. The federal government initiated four of the active criminal cases in Puerto Rico in 2018, ranking Puerto Rico 11th in the United States for the number of new criminal human trafficking cases. In 2018, federal courts convicted one defendant in a criminal human trafficking case, ranking Puerto Rico 36th in the nation for the number of defendants convicted. Federal courts did not order any defendants to pay restitution to their victim(s).
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*Each State Summary’s findings derived from data the Human Trafficking Institute compiled for the 2018 Federal Human Trafficking Report. Findings are not a prevalence estimate of trafficking in the state but instead serve as an objective summary of federal efforts to address human trafficking in that state. The Report does not capture data from state prosecutions, state civil suits, or unreported human trafficking cases.