There is a real Criminal Justice issue in the Ohio's Parole Board Releasing System, used against your family members and loved ones serving sentences called Indefinite sentences imposed as 15to life, or 20 to life terms. The Ohio Supreme Court has said, "Since 2001, the only way to comply with the truth in sentencing under the 1996 Senate Bill No.2, is by eliminating parole and eliminating indefinite sentences. That means that granting and denying parole in Ohio is unconstitutional to indefinite life sentences and until the law is reformed, parole is illegally being granted and denied to those of us serving 15 to life and 20 to life indefinite sentences.

  Parole eligibility is not guaranteed. There are no expectations to be granted a parole. There are no Constitutional Rights in the parole Suitability Determination hearings. The Parole Suitability Determination hearings are not recorded for appealable process or transparency. Parole can not exist until (life) is defined as a definite sentence as being 15, 20 or 25 years.

  These are the changes that need to be made; (1) Provide Constitutional Rights in Ohio parole hearings for those serving minimum to life terms after defining life and making life a definite term. (2) Go back to imposing 10 to 15 and 15 to 25 terms to mandate parole at the minimum term. (3) Make life mean either, life without parole or 15, 20 or 25 years. (4) record all parole hearings. (5) Provide full transparency  of all the information used in the hearing to grant or deny paroles. (6) Make parole part of the actual sentence penalty and conviction. (7) Provide the family members of the Lifer's some right to say what happens like the victims family  and prosecutors. This will put the parole system in a constitutional and statutorily legal and fair standing through enacted law, as it use to be under what is called the old law from 1972 through 1995. 

  Parole in its present state adds from 2 to 10 years to the minimum term and is being said that its ok to do because it doesn't effect the life term. This is not the correct and must be changed. The Ohio Parole System is not the court, and deciding the increase of the penalty by 2 to 10 years is not part of the legally imposed prison term and penalty. This will only change when you as loved ones and family members seek out that change and we as offenders fight for it. Together we can enforce the reforming changes needed through this petition and Court actions. This petition is on behalf of 7,463 Lifers who must face the oppressive arbitrary and capricious Parole System.

  This petition is one of the most important (Criminal Justice Reform) petitions that effect the 7,463 Lifers who are not provided legal processes to re-entry through parole. Ohio's Criminal Justice Systems must not be able to continue to break the law to enforce the law in Ohio, against those who takes another life, as they make them up.! Every case is different and must be treated as such, not to be made out to be the pictures that the Ohio Prosecutor Paint, and the Parole Board uses.

  Here is one of the Ohio's hidden criminal justice oppressions and must be brought to justice by stopping exposing their illegal acts against the smallest minority of Ohio's Criminal Justice  Offenders. Reform is in rehabilitation to change, without it the current parole re-entry is a game of seeing how deep you can sink in the ocean before you get to the drowning point. Is there enough air to get back to the top? Ohio's Parole System has been sinking for a long time, at least 50 years in this game! Because they have hidden air tanks that no one knows about.

  The time to act is now, the gates and doors are open for the changes needed, but without you they will continue to sink deeper until there is no way to reach them. I urge you to PLEASE help your friends family and loved ones get a chance at a meaningful life.

The Ohio Governor, Ohio Supreme Court, Trial Courts, Legislation, Department Of Rehabilitation And Corrections and Parole Authorities are fully aware of the Unconstitutional Parole Releasing Process used against your family and loved ones. Parole cannot be legal until Life is defined in terms of 15, 20 or 25 years through legislative law or unless Life is defined till death without the possibility of parole. Until parole is controlled and mandated where both should be, made part of the criminal sentence penalty and conviction and the indefinite 15 to life year term and parole are eliminated in its present state. Parole cannot be legal. It's critical that reform comes, where  Ohio's Paroling practices can be changed if we work together.