Texas Hispanic Activist Muniz Free After 24 Years in Prison
Style Magazine Newswire | 1/18/2019, 8:45 p.m.
Ramsey Muniz
Hispanic rights activist and political pioneer Ramsey Muniz, who was sentenced to life without parole in 1994 on a drug conviction, has been released from prison after years of intense efforts by family and supporters to free him. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says Muniz was released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, on Dec. 10. His trial attorney, Dick DeGuerin of Houston, says the 75-year-old former La Raza Unida Party candidate for governor is in poor health and spends his days in bed or a wheelchair. DeGuerin said the life sentence was mandatory under federal law because the 1994 felony drug conviction was his third. His release was on compassionate grounds under federal supervision. “Of course, he’ll be at home with his wife, but it also means the prison system was tired of losing money” on his care, DeGuerin said.
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