Former death row inmate Reginald Clemons makes a plea to the public to review the decision denying his parole, despite admitting to his role in a notorious crime.
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After being denied parole weeks later after the hearing, former death row inmate Reginald Clemons pleas with the public to review the decision. He was told prior to being denied, that if they call you in to discuss their decision, you won’t be free. However, if they are sending you any good news, they would’ve sent it in the mail.
Furthermore, the Argus reflects on several initiatives in the works to free this man, as he admit his part in the infamous rape, robbery and not the murder. A young 19-year-old kid hanging out with older men, whom he tried to stop from killing the victims. Whilst in court, the victims’ family long since forgave him.
In addition to that, close to three of his co-defendants went to their death, at death row. Technically, Reginald survived the grim reaper, but is still feeling the thorns of his actions.
Concisely, there was a sample letter from The Restorative Justice Rehabilitation Reforms (R.J.R.R.), to the genial hope of freedom. Former death row imate Reginald Clemmons dreams of seeing his family, was crushed after the detonating denial from the Parole Hearing. With all that is going on in St. Louis and world wide with the law enforcement and the justice system, you have to ask yourself was this acceptable.
The R.J.R.R:
The Restorative Justice Rehabilitation Reforms (R.J.R.R.) efforts are being put together, as a pipeline out of prison. In an effort to counteract the pressures of poverty caused by drugs, unemployment and lack of S.T.E.M. education opportunities, that have created a pipeline to prison. In this Restorative Justice Rehabilitation Reform (RJRR), we are working with religious/activist groups, community organizers, seeking the healing and guidance of victims rights organizations, engaging the circuit attorney’s offices and government officials throughout the State of Missouri.
While increasing and expanding the membership base of the Missouri Prison Reform (MPR), to include everyone interested in reducing the crime rate through rehabilitation, while establishing a successful Re-Entry 2030 program, outside the prisons. What has been discussed and decided upon so far, in this effort to bring about a more balanced reduction in both crime and the prison population.
By figuring out how to reduced the recidivism rate, we will be able to understand what leads a person to a life of crime in the first place. Nothing in life can be done without resources and nothing can be maintained over a long period of time, without a regenerative cyclical way of continuing to generate resources.
By taking in membership dues, we will be able to annually sustain the needed resources a chapters or charters needs to conduct fund raisers. These membership dues will be issued accounting to a membership scale for services rendered or offered. Where for a $4 members receive the newsletter, for $6 members receive access to resource information, $8 members receive assistance for review of legal claims, $10 members are able to have up to 200 documents archived and 10¢ a subsequent document thereafter.
All paid members have the ability to vote for whose the board president of a charter and said president fills all the board seats needed, to operate according to MPR by-laws. Missouri Prison Reform will provide all the information needed for law abiding citizens in the free world to get directly involved, by becoming a Volunteer In Correction (VIC). This Volunteer In Correction (VIC) pass, will allow you to visit the prison and get directly involved with criminal justice reform and rehabilitation, as a member of MPR.
Working with the circuit attorney’s offices throughout Missouri, Missouri Prison Reform (MPR) will be able to give people community service hours. These community service hours will be for helping to rehab houses, as a part of the Whole Way Home program. The Whole Way Home program will provide parolees a means of obtaining housing, with the option to buy the home outright. The Whole Way Home program will also allow parolees to work off homeowner debt, by helping to rehab additional Whole Way Home housing, for other parolees.
By providing parolees a dignified means to gain and earn a living, it will reduce the likelihood of parolees committing more crimes. While helping to improve and rebuild the communities parolee were once a part of. Whole Way Home will provide parolees with guidance to navigate through government assistance for those freshly released from prison. Through MPR, activist groups and community based organizations will know what prisoners are do for release in the immediate future.
Here is how we got to that point:
On June 11, 2024, Reginald Clemons will be going before the parole board for them to review whether he is ready to be released from prison. Clemons has taken many class course like Anger Management, Transition Training, Impact of Crime On Victims Class, Criminal Thinking, Pathways to Change, and has taken up a gainfully employable trade as a Tailor clothing manufacturer, and Screen Printing and Design.
On June 7, of 2019, Reginald Clemons successfully completed a 24/7 rehabilitation program that is strict in military discipline, that lasted 13 months in its intensive training for release back into society. Overall Reginald Clemons has earned 37 *Certificates* from various rehabilitation programs, totalling over 1,500 hours.
After 33 years of incarceration, there is only two questions remaining to be answered, for Clemons release, is he prepared for release and does society feel he has already served enough time in prison. Will Reginald Clemons ever commit another crime and does he have community support for Re-Entry back into society as a responsible productive person.
Reginald Clemons plead guilty to rape, robbery and being an accomplice to a murder, where he did not kill anyone. During the sentencing hearing, the victim’s family members excepted his apology and said they forgive him. Through rehabilitation, he has since realized how much the thinking errors of being a follower have misguided him, and how the positive influences of surrounding himself with the right people does make in life.
In the procedures and processes of the parole, there are three questions that must be answered. The Parole Board is Composed of seven (7) full-time members, with one designated by the Governor as Chair of the Board. The Chair has also assigned Parole Officers to all of the institutions to assist offenders and their families in parole matters.
All correspondence from offenders sent directly to the Board will be forwarded to the Parole Officer for evaluation and response. INSTITUTIONAL PAROLE OFFICER Scoring. The Institutional Parole Officer is responsible for ensuring the salient factor score is accurately calculated and reviewed with the offender.
The salient factor matrix is used to establish guidelines for time to be served. Parole guidelines may apply to new concurrent sentences received while on parole or conditional release. Confidentiality Parole hearing shall not be open to the general public. 217.670 RSMo Probation and parole records are confidential and considered closed records.
Why the denial:
After weeks of waiting, Reggie’s parole was denied and everyone felt the dagger as he did. Now, The Missouri Parole Board hearing with Reginald Clemons on June 11, 2024, needs to be made publicly reviewable for public consumption through both Sunshine Law request and the Freedom Of Information Act. Reginald Clemons is ready and willing to sign any waiver of privacy release form. The Parole Board is saying that regardless of Clemons’ rehabilitation efforts, where he’s earned over 38 rehabilitative certificates and at the at of 19 yrs. old, he was arrest in 1991.
The 15 years he received for offering violence to a corrections employee on April 14, 2003, will never end, because he also has 5 consecutive parolable life sentences that will never end. Mr. Clemons is incarcerated at Jefferson Correctional Center for two murder he tried to prevent, because of his role in the crimes leading up to the murders of sisters Robin and Julie.
On December 23, 2017, Reginald Clemons plead guilty and took accountability for his role in the crimes of rape robbery and murder, receiving five consecutive life sentences. Reginald Clemons has apologized to the victims family who have forgiven him and now some of them supports his efforts to obtain parole.
Yet the Missouri Department of Corrections has punished Reginald Clemons for filing a motion in the court to get their statement of forgiveness put in the court record. For rich people, this would be called obstruction of justice. For Reginald Clemons, its ground for continued imprisonment and denial of parole. Reginald Clemons was born in 1971 and is now a grandfathers who looks forward to an opportunity to give back to his family.
He has prepared himself for release back into society as a productive member of the community, by learning several trades skills and teaching himself computer coding. There are significant due process procedural gaps in the probation and parole process, that are not judicially reviewable due to a lack of disclosure.
The parole boards documentation of the parole proceedings lack specification as to what Case or Cause Number(s) the parole hearing is being conducted for. Without procedural accountability, the parole board is free to abuse its discretion based on race, religion, nationality, those that are mentally impaired, certain types of cases, cronyism or nepotism, while secretly expressing implicit bias.
Without a judicially reviewable record the Parole Board’s implicit bias will permit individual’s EIGHTH Amendment rights to be violated without equal due process protections under the law, those similarly situated under the FOURTEENTH Amendment to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
More:
Re-Entry 2030 (Rehabilitation VS Debilitation)
By: Reginald Clemons (a.k.a. Qadir Bilal Walid) Here at the Jefferson City Correctional Center(JCCC) Re-Entry 2030 program, there has been some amazingly creative work being done by the Inmate / Offenders. The Jefferson City Re-Entry 2030 program has been the best and most advanced program site out of all the rehabilitation program sites in the State of Missouri.
This program is funded and sustained by a Federal grant from The Second Chance Act signed into law, by the 43rd President George W. Bush, to the tune of $30 million dollar of tax dollars, earmarked to support these amazing efforts. The inmate facilitators / instructors have over 2,000 hours of counselling training to help in a peer to peer setting.
These particular inmate facilitators have developed a mock financial system to teach serious economic responsibility, in developing investment skills. Skills that translate into prisoners becoming fiscally responsible citizens in our communities after release from prison. Inmate facilitator Nicholas Thomas also developed a computer software on their own, for the Re-Entry 2030 program, that could be exported Nationwide throughout America.
To more effectively rehabilitate each other in the peer to peer counselling environment. Reginald Clemons has made leaps and bounds, with the activist community, to develop a handover process for prisoners to be directly connect with resources and housing after release from prison. Unfortunately the Missouri Dept. of Corr. Re-Entry director Alex Earls have dismantled the program, in a debilitating fashion and allowed JCCC to misappropriated the resource from the $30 million dollar allocated and earmarked for this Re-Entry 2030 program. By redirecting all the Re-Entry 2030 rehabilitation program resources, equipment and supplies towards other programs.
Leaving the Re-Entry 2030 Inmate facilitator with not even a marker to teach computer classes or paper to track the newly developed mock financial system. This Re-Entry 2030 program is needed for serious rehabilitation efforts to continue to bring down crime rates. The rehabilitative computer data system along with the Securus tablets could and will allow all prisoner progress to be tracked and improved, if it were allowed to be fully implemented and not debilitated by fear of peer to peer rehabilitation’s success.
In the meantime, Mr. Clemons is seemingly in great spirit, a bit disappointed, and will continue to fight for his freedom. We are talking about a man who survived life on death row, and is now working his way back to societal normality, if he doesn’t run out of time.
In conclusion, Reginald Clemons is asking for your help and support in continuing these rehabilitation efforts that the Missouri Dept. of Corr. has hampered and dismantled. To help please contact Missouri Prison Reform or the Argus Community Foundation for more information.
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