This is Bilal Abdul-Salaam Bey, also known as Charley Hughes, inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, Kansas.
This is part two, section one of the Kansas Healthcare, Education, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Preparedness bill.
Be it also enacted that, upon the passage of this bill, the director of contracts and programs shall implement a program within the KDOC titled “Education, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Preparedness Program.” And the secretary of corrections shall designate all [inaudible] with the KDOC for this program. Such programs should be made available to all people incarcerated within the KDOC irrespective of sentence, including sentences of life without parole and death which [inaudible] should be abolished in the state of Kansas.
Once enrolled into the ERREP program, a new social/psychological evaluation will be performed along with the case review of the prisoner’s convicted offense. Thereafter an education/rehabilitation curriculum will be made based on the individual needs of the prisoner being evaluated, and a [inaudible] parole date will be set within 30 days.
Capital murder cases. Level one capital murder cases will consist of those people currently convicted of a capital offense and sentenced to death or life without parole with two or more victims, murder of a police officer or a child. These people, eligible for parole, will require special review before parole is granted. Review will involve the governor, a classification specialist, and psychologist of the KDOC, and members of a citizens committee selected by the Free Kansas Movement executive committee. This person, after serving 10 to 15 years, and a form completion of the education/rehabilitation program, will then be eligible for review to be placed in the reentry preparedness phase of the program. Upon successful completion of the reentry preparedness phase, this prisoner would then be eligible for parole upon special review.
Level two capital cases- capital murder cases. Level two offenders consist of those people convicted of a capital offense with one victim and who are currently finished to life without parole. These prisoners will not require special review and will become parole-eligible upon successful completion of the curriculum and after serving the full base-minimum. Level two offenders, after serving 10 years and upon completion of the education/rehabilitation/reentry curriculum, shall then be paroled back to society.
Murder convictions, all other prisoners convicted of murder and sentenced to 60 or more years will receive a base parole range of 7 to 10 years upon completion of their initial review and will be paroled upon completion of education/rehabilitation/reentry preparedness program. Any prisoner convicted for murder is sentenced to life without parole pursuant to the Habitual Felony Offender Act will start with the base parole minimum of 10 years with enhancements available for each prior felony conviction. A prior felony conviction used to enhance but later ruled invalid will be retroactively deducted from the parole date.
This concludes the part two of the Kansas Education Rehabilitation and Reentry Preparedness Program Bill.
Once again, this was Bilal Abdul-Salaam Bey, also known as Charley Hughes. Those wishing to reach me may do so by writing Charley Hughes, C H A R L E Y H U G H E S, Number 96576, Hutchinson Correctional facility, PO Box 1568, Hutchinson, Kansas 67504.
Thank you for your time, effort, and energy.
These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
![Prison Radio is sharing an abbreviated version of a press release covering recent racist incidents at SCI Rockview in PA and the organizing to demand accountability. We are reaching out to people incarcerated at Rockview as well as recently transferred folks, inviting them to call, in hopes of hearing commentaries from them.
Benner Township, PA.-
On November 24th, 2023, imprisoned people at SCI Rockview found two nooses hanging in the CO’s office, displayed visibly for many prisoners to see. When the prisoners asked the staff why the nooses were hung, they were told it was a joke.
By December 4th, prisoners filed a grievance to document what they saw, noting that the hanging of the nooses was “unethical, racially motivated, hateful, [a] deliberate debasement of black inmates" and “unsafe for inmates, staff, [and] the whole prison in general.” In the grievance, they demanded that Sgt. Mosser and CO Richard be fired and investigated for a hate crime, and for CO Kirchner to get therapy. Captain Andrews, the head of security, denied the grievance.
The sergeant and COs are still working in the prison to this day, with no repercussions...
As of March 10th, prisoners have reached out to Pennsylvania officials at the Dept. of Corrections in a letter campaign, sending 100 copies of the grievance. Copies of the letter also were mailed to Governor Shapiro, Senator Fetterman, Senator Street, and various advocacy groups. The demands for relief in the original grievance have now become the platform of demands for this campaign. About 20 of the 100 letters were withheld by the prison.
Activists on the outside are joining forces with prisoners to elevate their demands, flooding the phone lines of DOC offices, assisting with outreach to media, and circulating the stories of prisoners who have found unity in opposition to the facility's virulent institutional racism.
In any other workplace, hanging a noose would be grounds for immediate termination. However, Nicki Paul, the superintendent's assistant and "grievance coordinator" informed the public that they self-investigated their staff and found they did nothing wrong.
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