SCDPPPS put false information in an inmate parole file that contradicts facts recognized by the SC Supreme Court. The inmate s attorney says it may be a crime.
Joseph Kelsey was denied parole on April 24. Kelsey was the youngest of three teens convicted of a 1994 murder in South Carolina. He’s the only one still in prison.
Joseph Kelsey was 16 when he and two others committed murder. He was convicted for killing Melanie Richey. The South Carolina parole board could set him free.
Decades of evidence proves that a functional parole system makes us all safer. Human beings don’t function well without hope, and the hope of parole incentivizes good behavior and reformation,