He was often imprisoned for his political activism , almost from the time he was a boy ( from the age of 14 – 15 years ) and was still a minor when he was sent for the first time to the maximum-security jail of those days : the Islas Marías . He participated in the Railwaymen 's Movement in 1958 , for which they imprisoned him again . In 1968 he was accused of being the " intellectual author " of the student movement that culminated in the Tlatelolco massacre , so he was arrested and sent to the Palacio de Lecumberri prison ( aka The Black Palace ) , where he wrote one of his more popular books : '' El apando '' ( The Punishment Cell ) ( A. Revueltas 1998 ; Valle , Alvárez Garín , and J. Revueltas 1970 )
Tlatelolco massacre
Tlatelolco massacre
José Revueltas