FELICIANO-HERNÁNDEZ v. PEREIRA-CASTILLO

No. 11-1052.

663 F.3d 527 (2011)

Angel Luis FELICIANO-HERNÁNDEZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Miguel A. PEREIRA-CASTILLO, Former Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Director of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Jane Doe; Conjugal Partnership Pereira-Doe; Víctor M. Rivera González, Former Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Director of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Jane Doe #2; Conjugal Partnership Rivera-Doe #2; Zoé M. Laboy-Alvarado, Former Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Director of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; John Doe; Conjugal Partnership Doe-Laboy; Nydia M. Cotto-Vives, Former Director of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; John Doe # 2; Conjugal Partnership Doe #2-Cotto; Joseph Colóon-Morales, Former Director of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Jane Doe # 3; Conjugal Partnership Colón-Doe #3; Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Facilities Superintendents John Poe #1 Through #5, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 9, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Federico Lora-López , with whom José J. Nazario De La Rosa was on brief, for appellant.

Carlos Lugo-Fiol , with whom Irene S. Soroeta-Kodesh , Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, Leticia Casalduc-Rabell , Deputy Solicitor General, and Zaira Z. Girón-Anadón , Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief for appellees Zoé M. Laboy-Alvarado and Víctor M. Rivera-González.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

In 1981, Angel Luis Feliciano-Hernández, a habitual offender with a record of sexual abuse and rape, was convicted of crimes and sentenced by a Puerto Rico court to a term of perpetual imprisonment for treatment until his rehabilitation, to last a minimum of twelve years. That twelve-year minimum sentence ended in 1993, and Feliciano-Hernández was not released from prison until 2008, fifteen years later.

On June 23, 2009, Feliciano...

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