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Alvaro Luna Hernandez From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. (July 2015) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (July 2015) Alvaro Luna Hernandez Born May 12, 1952 (age 68)[citation needed] Nationality American Citizenship United States[citation needed] Occupation Activist Movement Chicano Liberation & Prison abolition movement[citation needed] Criminal charge(s) Aggravated assault of a police officer[1][conflicted source?] Criminal penalty 50 years[citation needed] Criminal status Incarcerated at James V. Allred Unit, Iowa Park, TX in solitary confinement[2] Website freealvaro.net Alvaro Luna Hernandez (born May 12, 1952) is a Chicano liberation and prison abolition activist from Alpine, Texas.[citation needed] He is currently serving a 50-year sentence for aggravated assault of a police officer.[3] He is housed in solitary confinement at James V. Allred Unit prison in Iowa Park, Texas where he was transferred after being incarcerated 18 years at Hughes Unit.[4] He spends his time as "Jailhouse Lawyer", also known as an amateur attorney, assisting indigent inmates he believes to be innocent or deserving in their pursuit of justice.[1][conflicted source?] Contents 1 1975 arrest 2 Jailhouse political organizing 3 Activist career 4 1996 arrest 5 References 1975 arrest In September 1975, Hernandez was arrested for allegedly murdering Robert Anthony Beard, a former Sul Ross State University student.[5] Jailhouse political organizing While imprisoned, Hernandez studied Mexican-American history, the prison system, and revolutionary political theory, along with local laws usable in his and others' defense.[1][conflicted source?] Hernandez fought against institutional corruption he saw through constitutional and civil rights lawsuits, hunger strikes, work stoppages and yard takeovers, and was one of the "seven other prisoners" whose civil suits were merged into what later became the landmark Estelle v Ruiz victory for prison reform against the Texas Department of Corrections.[6] While incarcerated in Huntsville, Texas, he met Ricardo Adalpe Guerra, a Mexican national who had been convicted of killing a Houston area police officer, at the time on death row in the cell next to Alvaro.[citation needed] He spent much of his sentence in solitary confinement (allegedly due to retaliation from the prison),[citation needed] before being cleared and freed in 1991, due in part to investigative reporting by former Houston Post staffer Paul Harasim.[1][conflicted source?] Activist career Hernandez settled in Houston with his wife.[1] Immediately following his release, he became the national coordinator of the Ricardo Adape Guerra defense committee and is credited as being a major influence in Adape Guerra's conviction being overturned[citation needed]. He founded a national civil rights group on behalf of Mexican-Americans, The National Movement of La Raza, and did extensive community work with "Stop the Violence Youth Committee, and the Prisoners Solidarity Committee".[citation needed] Hernandez also helped to negotiate truces between Hispanic street gangs in Pasadena, Texas, following a spate of shootings. He also worked internationally, speaking in 1993 to the United Nations General Assembly regarding the United States' mistreatment of political prisoners.[1][conflicted source?] 1996 arrest In 1996, while organizing against police brutality in Chicano communities an officer came to Hernandez home on July 18, to arrest him on a robbery charge. During the encounter Hernandez knocked the gun from the officers hand while it was pointed at him before fleeing. An act that Hernandez claimed was in self defense as he says the officer had drawn his weapon in the middle of their conversation intending to shoot him while unarmed. Hernandez later surrendered to police and though he was found to have been innocent of the robbery, was convicted for assaulting the police officer by knocking the gun from the officers hand and given a fifty-year sentence. Since then Hernandez has been likened to a political prisoner by many human rights activists who have pushed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Organization of American States into investigating his case.[7][8]

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