Biography
Father Luis Barrios is a Puerto Rican-born Episcopal priest, professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and a longtime liberation-theology activist. He has been arrested repeatedly for SOA Watch line-crossings at Fort Benning, Georgia, and has served multiple short federal sentences for trespass at the U.S. Army School of the Americas. He has also been a leading figure in IFCO/Pastors for Peace caravans to Cuba and a critic of U.S. policy in Latin America.
The 2010 account by Mark Hamm, Jeff Ferrell and Chris Greer dates Barrios’s Fort Benning line crossing to November 23, 2008, his sentencing by Judge G. Mallon Faircloth to January 26, 2009, and his actual admission to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York to March 9, 2009. His imposed sentence was sixty days and a $250 fine. His March 18 move out of the Special Housing Unit was an internal transfer. The postscript expressly records release on May 6, 2009: 58 elapsed days after admission. An unrelated 2014 endpoint must not be attached to this imprisonment. His prison letters describe conditions from his own perspective. Source: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/4260/1/09-06-17%20-%20Hamm%20et%20al%20-%20Provocateur%20for%20Justice.pdf#page=17
