Biography
Elizam Escobar was a Puerto Rican art theorist, poet, visual artist and writer. On 4 April 1980, Escobar was among eleven FALN members arrested by the FBI in Evanston, Illinois, under the suspicion of plotting to bomb Federal installations. They were charged with seditious conspiracy and related charges. During and after the trial he maintained his position that he and the others were prisoners of war. Escobar was sentenced to a prison term of 68 years,
The individual sentencing clauses in the presidential clemency record, corroborated by the Justice Department advisory, establish the original federal sentencing date as 1981-02-18. This corrects the differing legacy sentencing entry for the identified prosecution. Sentencing is not treated as prison admission. The 1999 commutation was conditional; its date, proposed release schedules and rounded years served do not establish actual physical discharge or an exact custody total. Existing admission and release fields are not copied or changed from this source.
Original presidential record, PDF pages 31, 32; Justice Department, August 11, 1999 advisory.
