Category: Ramsey Muniz

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Dear Friends:

We seek letters from congressmen and organizations. Please forward this email to those who are members of LULAC, the GI Forum, and other civic organizations and ask them to send a letter from their organization.

The letter will be sent to Geraldo Maldonado, Regional Director of the South Central Region Bureau of Prisons. A sample letter is shown below, and thank you in advance for your assistance.

Irma Muniz
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March 27, 2007

Gerardo Maldonado, Jr.
Regional Director
South Central Regional Office
Federal Bureau of Prisons
4211 Cedar Springs Rd.
Dallas, TX 75219

Re: Ramiro R. Muniz # 40288-115

Dear Mr. Maldonado:
Mr. Muniz has been told that he will be transferred out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Three Rivers, Texas due to medical reasons. We ask your assistance in preventing this transfer.

When Mr. Muniz was sentenced in 1994, Judge Paul Brown recommended that he be incarcerated in Three Rivers, Texas. We ask that the Bureau of Prisons consider the recommendation made by Judge Paul Brown along with the qualifications of Mr. Muniz. He merits placement in a Federal Correctional Institution and we ask that he remain at Three Rivers.

Mr. Muniz is now told that his transfer out of Three Rivers FCI is due to medical reasons, yet nothing indicates a need for this move. He arrived at Three Rivers, Texas in good health. He has not made a
visit to the infirmary, nor has he requested any type of medication for physical ailments in 13 years.

After spending many years of incarcerated in maximum security penitentiaries, Mr. Muniz has proven to be a model prisoner. He had no incident reports and because of his low point classification, the North Central and South Central Regional Offices for the Bureau of Prisons recommended his transfer to Three Rivers, Texas.

We ask your assistance in keeping Mr. Muniz in Three Rivers, Texas.

Sincerely,

When few would own up to the unjust treatment of Ramsey Muniz, the American G.I. Forum helped to get him transferred to a Texas prison. So we just want to make it clear that we are proud to support the American G.I. Forum, especially because it was founded in Corpus Christi and stands as a mentoring example to anyone now working for Texas Civil Rights.–gm

“The American G.I. Forum calls for an immediate boycott of PBS and its 354 affiliate stations across the nation until such time that the Latino experience is included in Ken Burns “The WAR” PBS WWII documentary that is scheduled for release on September 23, 2007;”

Resolution

SUPPORT FOR THE RELEASE OF RAMSEY MUNIZ

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz is a native of Corpus Christi, Texas; and

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz contributed to the Chicano Movement during the 1970s as a leader fighting for justice and equality for all Mexican Americans throughout the United States; and
Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz was a great Texas gubernatorial candidate for La Raza Unida Party – a political party established and developed solely by Mexican Americans; and

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz efforts and contribution are recognized and fully noted as part of our Mexican-American history; and

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz is serving a term of life without parole and was assigned to remain imprisoned in Leavenworth, Kansas, and now sits in the USP Florence High Penitentiary in Colorado; and

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz is serving a life sentence under the three strike rule which we feel is unconstitutional and inhumane; and

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz, now 64 years old, who was housed in the United States Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, as a result of complication from a life- threatening surgery performed in August of 2005 and who has not fully recovered form his medical needs; and

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz is in need of further surgery and returning him to the penitentiary could worsen his already fragile condition; and

Whereas, Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz has been a model prisoner for the past 11 years who was to be housed near his family in Three Rivers, Texas, as ordered by Federal Judge Paul Brown;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the League of United Latin American Citizens Council 1 build support and unity to staunchly advocate and seek the immediate humanitarian release of Mr. Ramiro R. Muniz from prison.

Adopted this 1st day of July 2006.

Rosa Rosales
LULAC National President

http://www.lulac.org/advocacy/resolutions/2006/R28.html

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http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_4818001,00.html

Local LULAC issues favored
Support for soldiers, Ramsey Muniz passes

By Anthony Martinez Beven Caller-Times
July 2, 2006

Both local LULAC chapters reveled in support shown Saturday by the national organization for two resolutions tied to Corpus Christi.

Delegates at the national League of United Latin American Citizens convention passed without dissent a resolution calling for the release of Ramsey Muniz, a former area lawyer and candidate for governor in the early 1970s.

Muniz, 64, is serving a life sentence in federal prison after three drug-related felony convictions during a 17-year period. Arguing his health is failing and adequate health care services are lacking, LULAC approved a call for his release during the national convention in Milwaukee. The convention ended Saturday.

LULAC Council 1, based in Corpus Christi, had been leading the initiative, and chapters across Texas have passed a similar statewide resolution.

“For the state of Texas, I was very happy. For the national level, I was very surprised because 1,000 members voted unanimously for the humanitarian release of Ramsey,” said Gambi Gamboa, Council 1 civil rights chairman.

The organization wants to see, for humanitarian reasons, that he gets let out and spends the last few years with his family, Gamboa said from Milwaukee. He said the national council is requesting the U.S. Justice Department intervene and help facilitate the release of Muniz.

Another resolution passed that seeks community support, particularly among employers, for soldiers coming back from the war in Iraq.

Nancy Vera, president of LULAC Council 4444, said national support for the resolution highlights that though LULAC is a Hispanic civil rights organization, it stands behind the United States.

“We hold true our traditions and our heritage, there’s no question of our loyalty to the United States,” Vera said. “This is our home. This where we were born, many of us.”

Vera said Council 4444 is working closely with the local chapter of Blue Star Mothers, a national group of moms whose sons and daughters are soldiers in Iraq and other places who offer support to families whose children have been killed in the war.

A third resolution regarding the boycott of Telemundo television network and its advertisers after TV personality Johnny Canales claims he was discriminated against for his Mexican origin was tabled, said Gonzalo Tamez, Council 4444 vice president and a convention delegate.

Joe Ortiz, district director for area LULAC chapters, recently said discrimination prompted Canales’ music show to be canceled earlier this year.

“Because it’s under negotiation they think they are going to be able to come to some kind of agreement,” said Tamez, who attended the convention on behalf of Council 4444. However, if negotiations fail, LULAC may consider a national resolution in favor of Canales, he said.

Contact Anthony Martinez Beven at 886-3792 or bevena@ caller.com

Copyright 2006, Caller.com. All Rights Reserved.

Dear Friends:

Enclosed is the first of a 2 part letter written by Ramsey Muniz. We recently learned that his custody level merits a placement in a camp or Federal Correctional Institution, yet he finds himself in a maximum security penitentiary. Again we thank the members of LULAC and the American GI Forum for their kindness, compassion, and support, which comes at a most crucial time.–Irma L. Muniz

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5/26/06
Lock/down

I Know That I’m Innocent

Infinite pain: for the pain of imprisonment is the harshest, most devastating pain, murdering this mind, searching the soul, leaving marks on the heart that will never be erased.
The pain of bearing chains and shackles on your body is born from a lump of iron and quickly sweeps away this mysterious world that agitates every heart; it grows, feeding on every shadowy sorrow, and finally it overflows, swollen by my scalding tears. America has never been in prison. Yes, God does exist, and from the darkness and cold of these prisons I come in His name to shatter the cold glass that encloses that tear in the souls of those responsible for my incarceration,
for the confinement in their cold and dark holes, for the torture and cruelty, for the separation from my loving wife, family, and people, for sentencing my body and soul to a death sentence knowing all the time that I was innocent.

“Prison is a real hell, a living hell. The prison hospital
is another and even more real hell. On the threshold of
unknown worlds, and to move me from one hell to the other, the political prison of America req1uirs that the shadow of death be upon me.”

Tezcatlipoca
http://www.freeramsey.com