PRican PP Carlos Alberto Torres parole hearing Scheduled for Jan 19th

ProLibertad Campaign
Date: Mon, January 11, 2010

Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres will meet with the Parole
Commission¡¯s hearing examiner once again on January 19.

The Bureau of Prisons continues its role of interfering with his release. Carlos
Alberto learned today that the BOP received an order from the Parole Commission on
November 12, 2009, indicating that the Commission wanted to see him about the
disciplinary report at the next available date. The FCI Pekin staff member
responsible for communicating this to Carlos Alberto told him simply, ¡°I must have
overlooked this.¡±

The prison disciplinary committee found him guilty of possessing home made knives
which, unbeknownst to him, a cellmate had hidden in the light fixture of the cell.
This finding came not only after the first guilty decision was expunged, but after
the guilty cellmate confessed in person to the committee.

The U.S. Parole Commission had postponed its decision whether to adopt its hearing
examiner¡¯s recommendation to release Carlos Alberto on parole on April 3, 2010,
waiting for the disciplinary committee¡¯s decision. At the January 19 hearing,
Carlos Alberto will ask the Commission to adopt the recommendation and order his
release, and to ignore the Bureau of Prisons¡¯ attempts to derail his parole.

Write to the Parole Commission to encourage them to adopt the recommendation and
order his release! Sample letter available at www.boricuahumanrights.org.


Jan Susler
January 7, 2010