>> Well, transfers out of Illinois is closing state Correctional facility are already underway.

There is an ongoing effort to be released from prison entirely and sooner than some sentences require.

Advocates are working to bring back a widespread parole system in Illinois sense.

And most people don't know this.

The state is one of 16 that don't have one efforts to return to that system are starting from behind prison walls.

There at 46 years old, right?

Will draw.

Do is 26 years into a life sentence at Stateville Correctional Facility?

>> To the on honorable ignorance of dark.

>> Cold caves.

>> But that hasn't stopped him from learning or fighting against what he believes to be an inhumane system of mass incarceration.

>> All of us to form this nonprofit.

We all either had a life without parole sentence.

we had a defacto license or virtual life with which means that you have so much time.

They can't outlive your The nonprofit he's referring to is called Illinois, formed by men who were incarcerated in state prisons.

>> They're working to reinstate the parole system after it was abolished.

Illinois in 1978. just so inhumane to require people to grow old and infirm.

>> To have to die in prison when we got literally mountains of data to inform us that lengthy prison sentences yield nominal returns on public safety.

>> Here's how it works.

Current Illinois law calls for determinant sentencing.

That means if a defendant is sentenced to serve 6 years, they serve the entire 6 years.

They can shave time off that sentence for good behavior and by participating in classes and training once that time earned their release from prison on mandatory supervised release or M S R. Were they still have to follow plenty of rules and check in with a supervising officer regularly.

That part is still very similar to parole.

But the difference is the mechanism for release from prison under parole.

Once a defendant has served a certain amount of time in prison, they can make their case to the parole board rolled And other advocates refer to it earned re-entry.

>> What we're proposing is not a get out of jail car.

Where an advancing earned ranch.

You bill.

And it requires people to spend 20 or more consecutive years in prison before they're eligible.

And if the review process right after 20 years, you can present the best version of yourself before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board.

It'll be up to them to determine whether you can be safely released and successfully reintegrate into society.

>> Their earned re-entry Bill's House bill.

3373 and Senate bill.

2129 create a review process that after 20 to 35 consecutive years of incarceration, individuals are given the chance to make their case before the parole board.

The Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council shows that as the bills are written, 438 people in see prisons would be eligible for release in the first year of effectiveness.

>> That number would grow to nearly 4,000 by the 3rd year.

Sure.

Republican State Senator Seth Lewis isn't opposed to the idea of bringing back parole but questions if it should be a priority for C. >> That whole system needs to be improved.

Before we go wholeheartedly into a parole system, it has to come together because giving someone the opportunity to leave prison and then not support them while they're here.

I think we're setting them up for failure to go back.

>> He argues the whole system needs other cures for long-running bills like root causes of crime and rehabilitation.

While incarcerated.

>> And we also have to bring in victims and victims.

Families making sure that their felt a part of the process or at least have a say they may not like the outcome of person who has been ripped ability to deny, want to provide forgiveness, but the same time they need to be a part of it.

>> One such victim was 11 year-old Jaden Perkins, a young dancer killed while protecting his mother from a man just released from prison on mandatory supervised release.

Dorado argues the public misuse of the word poor role in the case of the suspect hurts their efforts.

>> This man was not on parole.

He was an M S R if there was a parole system, he would have been forced to undergo.

This a transformational process, a personal growth before he would have been released.

>> Advocates even Reynolds is a victim herself world in her first husband was murdered 16 years ago.

suspect was never arrested.

>> Whatever it is that is responsible for my late husband's death.

I don't think they need to sit in prison for 30, 40 years just to realize what they did or caused to my family.

But also.

It's not going to make their family holy, they're right.

It's going to tear their family apart.

The same least one minor part.

How can we not advocate for second chances when we know that human nature, human beings by nature do they do change?

>> She married her current husband while he was incarcerated in an unrelated federal case.

>> He was convicted and sentenced to 20 years to life for nonviolent drug nonviolent drug offense in the federal system, albeit so he would have had to serve all that time.

He technically should not the home until 2029.

>> What?

He's out of prison now through a change in federal law with Reynolds argues a change in state law could do the same for men and women in Illinois providing opportunities like the ones she and her husband have.

Now.

>> And while we fight to reinstate pro system, Illinois.

In the meantime, role Dorado spends his time preparing for the day he gets his chance.

I'm on the gun that transformational personal growth and I gladly carry this heavy burden that I know down.

Just speak for myself.

I speak for every incarcerated person in ideal scene, not particularly speak on behalf of every person of more than 5,000 people who are sentenced to die in Illinois prisons.

>> Also rolled rado himself was just transferred to a downstate prison yesterday.

She even the Grenell's also points out how a parole system would create a safety valve for the wrongfully