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Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Torruella and Thompson, Circuit Judges.

In 1981, Angel Luis Feliciano-Hernandez, 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-Hernandez was not released from prison until 2008, fifteen years later.

On June 23, 2009, Feliciano-Hernandez brought suit in federal court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The defendants are five named former Secretaries of the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and their spouses and conjugal partnerships, as well as five unnamed Superintendents of prison facilities in the Commonwealth, identified as “John Poe” defendants.

 
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