Eyvin Hernandez, a Los Angeles County deputy public defender, is being held at a maximum security military prison in Venezuela and has been charged with criminal association and conspiracy, which can result in up to 16 years in prison.
Brittney Griner’s release from Russia in a high-profile prisoner exchange should be celebrated, not disparaged by reactions reeking of bias and bigotry.seven American prisoners in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicolás Maduro’s wife, who were serving time in U.S. prisons for drug smuggling.“When a U.S. citizen is detained overseas, the Department works to provide all appropriate assistance,” U.S.
Martinez said he feels the U.S. government has let his big brother down, allowing him to languish in what he describes as a “dungeon.” In phone calls to his family, Hernandez said he was in solitary confinement at one point. His cell has no windows, and he is only allowed to walk in circles for 30 minutes in an outside area the size of two vehicles. He is sleep-deprived because the lights in his cell are kept on all the time, and he subsists mostly on a diet of stale tortillas, he told them.
“This place is meant to break you psychologically and spiritually,” Hernandez said in a secretly recorded jailhouse message in August. “If you don’t get us out soon, then there might not be anyone left to save.”Hernandez was born in El Salvador in 1978 and fled to Los Angeles with his family at age 3, just before the country’s civil war. He grew up in South L.A. and attended UCLA, first earning a degree in physics and math, then graduating from the law school in 2005.
Hernandez then joined the L.A. County Public Defender’s Office. His most recent assignment was handling felony cases in downtown L.A., and he has trained and mentored many public defenders, according to his family.“It’s not going to be forever, man,” he says. “Stay strong. You’re going to be home soon.”
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