Biography
Carlos Alberto Torres is a Puerto Rican nationalist linked to the FALN era of clandestine independence activity and to long-running debates about political imprisonment and anti-colonial resistance. He became widely known because he spent years as a fugitive and appeared on Federal Bureau of Investigation “Ten Most Wanted” list during the late 1970s.
Torres was captured on April 4, 1980, and later convicted of seditious conspiracy—described as conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of the United States—receiving a 78-year federal sentence. He served roughly 30 years and was granted parole in May 2010, leaving prison on July 26, 2010, and returning to Puerto Rico shortly afterward.
Green Anarchy's Fall/Winter 2001 prisoner update reported that Marilyn Buck, Sundiata Acoli, Leonard Peltier, Philip Berrigan and Carlos Alberto Torres had been moved into isolation units following September 11. This is a contemporary advocacy publication's account of their historical conditions of confinement, not an official determination or a present-day custody report.
The Summer 1995 Breakthrough prisoner-support directory lists Carlos Alberto Torres, with historical prisoner number 88976-024, at FCI Oxford, Box 1000, Oxford WI 53952-1000. This is the directory’s historical correspondence address, not a current mailing instruction or present custody claim. It supplies no admission, transfer or release day and no completed custody total.
Breakthrough, Summer 1995, Write Through the Walls, PDF page58.
A June 1984 Breakthrough statement reports that, after transfer to Alabama, Carlos Alberto Torres could correspond with only six immediate family members selected by prison officials.
