CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES
Carlos Alberto Torres was released from prison on parole on July 26, 2010
Birthday: September 19, 1952
Carlos was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1952. His family soon emigrated to New York and then to Chicago.
In his junior year in high school he was able to participate in his first Puerto Rican history class, offered by Aspira. He studied sociology at Southern Illinois University and later at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
At the U. of I. he became involved in the struggles against the racist teachings of Shockley, Crittenden and other sociologists, as well as for Latino recruitment to the university.
Carlos was involved in issues in the community related to police brutality, slum landlords, corrupt politicians and the colonial case of Puerto Rico.
In 1980 he was arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy and related charges, and sentenced to 78 years in prison. The parole commission recently told him he must serve another 15 years in prison before they will consider his case. His release date is 2024.
After his arrest, his daughter Clarissa, then age 3, was whisked out of the country, for fear the government would make good on its threats to harm her. Clarissa, a recent high school graduate, is reunited with her family and working in San Francisco to save money for college.
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