Robert Seth Hayes has been incarcerated since 1973 for his involvement with the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. A victim of the FBI’s illegal COINTELPROgram, he has been behind bars for 41 years and is currently in his sixties. Seth has maintained an exemplary prison record throughout this time. Seth—a husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend—is nearing his thirteenth parole hearing in 2014.