BOP continues to sabotage Carlos Alberto Torres' parole efforts

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Thu, September 17, 2009

BOP continues to sabotage Carlos Alberto Torres' parole efforts

On the heels of the U.S. Parole Commission hearing examiner's
recommendation that Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto
Torres be released on parole on April 3, 2010, the Federal Bureau of
Prisons reinstated false accusations already expunged in a
transparent attempt to derail his release after 29 years in prison.

The disciplinary hearing officer found Carlos Alberto guilty of
possessing knives which a cellmate had hidden in the light fixture of
the 10 man cell, in spite of the sworn statement and testimony of the
cellmate, accepting full responsibility. The routine in the BOP in
such a situation is that when the person responsible admits guilt,
the prison dismisses the case against the others who occupied the same cell.

Of the 10 occupants of the cell, Carlos Alberto is the only one whose
case has been heard, another deviation from the norm..

The sentence imposed: 60 days loss of telephone; 60 days loss of
visits; 60 days loss of commissary privileges; 41 days loss of good
time credits; and 30 days in segregation (though he will not be
placed in segregation if he goes 180 days with no disciplinary
violations). Writing letters would thus be the only form of
communication for the duration of the sentence.

Just as the sentence began, the prison official who had been
routinely translating his mail told him that they had received orders
from "higher up," to gather all of his mail and send it out to a
translator and censor, and that this would likely result in lengthy
delays in his sending and receiving mail, in other words, leaving him
completely incomuniccado.

At the same time, another prison official told him bluntly "they're
looking at everything you do," inferring that "they" meant the
regional or central offices of the BOP.

We must denounce these blatant attempts to sabotage Carlos Alberto's
parole efforts, and to isolate and further punish him.


Jan Susler
September 17, 2009

Jan Susler
People's Law Office
1180 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60622
773/235-0070 x 118
jsusler@aol.com



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