{"id":5287,"date":"2016-08-29T03:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T08:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T19:27:02","slug":"robert-shipp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/robert-shipp\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Shipp – Life Reduced to 30 years – Now free"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robert_Shipp\"Robert served his time and is currently living in Chicago.
\nWatch Robert’s sister Veda Ajamu on NBC news<\/a> about the passing of First Step Act
\nPlease sign Robert Shipp’s change.org petition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert was featured in The Mercy Lottery: A Review of the Obama Administration\u2019s Clemency Initiative by NYU Law School released June 2018; a thesis as a part of master\u2019s project by Raishad M. Hardnett,\u00a0a journalism student of Columbia University, NY entitled The Inmates Left Behind: Clemency and Mercy in the Age of Trump on March 9, 2018; \u00a0Op Ed by Yale Law Students in Mic on Dec 30, 2016<\/a> as being extremely worthy of clemency on a list of people they vetted and determined met all the criteria of Obama’s clemency project 2014.The Intercept<\/a> quoted Robert in an article entitled Despite Backlash for working with Trump, Activist Say Prison Reform Can\u2019t Wait on June 4, 2018.<\/p>\n

Name:<\/strong> Robert E. Shipp #05447424
\nDOB:<\/strong> 9-16-72
\n\"\"Race:<\/strong> African American
\nMarital Status:<\/strong> Single
\nAge:<\/strong> 46
\nChildren:<\/strong> 1
\nGrandchildren:<\/strong> 4
\nState you are from:<\/strong> Illinois
\nState where you were charged:<\/strong> Illinois
\nWhere will you release:<\/strong> Hazel Crest, Illinois
\nCharge:<\/strong> conspiracy to possess and distribute crack cocaine, and to use a telephone to facilitate drug transactions
\nSentence:<\/strong> Life..later reduced in 2015 to 30 years…..
\nServed to date:<\/strong>\u00a025 years
\nStarted Sentence on:<\/strong> Arrested 9-7-93 and sentenced to life July 14, 1994
\nPriors:<\/strong> 2 priors, both for unlawful possession of firearms
\nPrison Conduct:<\/strong>\u00a0only 4 incident reports in 24 1\/2 years
\nClemency status:<\/strong>\u00a0Denied – Clemency Petition Filed May 2016 by Professor Mark Osler
\nSupporters:<\/strong> Judge Marvin Aspen Letter for Robert Shipp 5.31.2013<\/a>, Letters from Congressman Steve Cohen for Robert Shipp<\/a>, CAN-DO Foundation, Mommie Activist and sons,FAMM, #cut50, St. Thomas School of Law, NYU Law School, The Clemency Report, a host of friends and family. See freerobertshipp facebook page<\/a>
\nInstitution:<\/strong>
\nFCI MILAN
\nFEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
\nP.O. BOX 1000
\nMILAN, MI 48160
\nAccomplishments:<\/strong>
\nGraduate of “Friend of a Friend” mentorship program. Currently mentors at\u00a0Milan to younger inmates.
\nCompleted Microsoft management and business courses with Kaskaskia College with a 4.00 average.<\/p>\n

Other accomplishments as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Robert
Robert and his daughter, Takeema<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

College business English
\nCollege keyboarding
\n3 steps to success
\nCollege excel expert
\ncollege word expert
\nRPP4-HIV education
\nLean Six Sigma Basic training
\nMicro soft power point
\nMicrosoft excel
\nMicro soft word
\nFitness\/yoga
\nFriend\/Friend mentoring program
\nRPP4-IL Sec. State Employment
\nRPP4-USPO Northern District Illinois
\nRPP3-IRS Tax Information
\nRPP6-Lifestyle Intervention
\nCommercial Driver License
\nRPP5-Halfway House prep House Prep
\n(G) Decision Making-CAI
\n(I) Conflict Intervention CAI
\n(A) MSO Excel 1-CAI (20 hours)
\n(PG) PCTC Business Leadership
\n(A) MSO Word 1-CAI (20 hours)
\n(A) Internet Firefox-CAI (20 hours)
\n(V) Photoshop level 1-CAI
\n(D) Making Wise investment decisions
\n(A) Internet Basics-(20 hours)
\n(C) Effective Time Management CAI
\n(G) Balance work and family-CAI
\n(D) Personal Finance-CAI(10 hours)
\n(V) Conducting interviews-CAI
\n(I) Diversity and Communication-CAI 10 hours
\n(I) Basic Communication CAI 10 hours
\n(C) Emotional Intelligence-CAI
\n(ES) COMM. Skills 4 Employment
\n(ES) Getting along with co-workers
\n(ES) Dress for employment success
\n(ES) Employment Goal setting 101
\n(ES) Responsibility Employment
\n(ES) Time Management Skills
\n(EM) Informational Job Fair
\n(EM) Interview Job Fair
\n(PG) USP Typing Ace course
\n(PG) Computer Parenting Program
\nAce Basic Power Point 20 hours
\nFS Equipment Sanitation 2 hours
\nAce Basic MS Word 20 hours
\n(PG) African American History Ace
\n(PG) Ancient voices Ace 15 hours
\n(PG) Drivers Education 10 hours
\n(PG) Welding Inspection Ace
\nAce Basic Ms Excel 20 hours
\nMRSA Awareness 2 hours
\nHLTH RPP-Influenza Awareness
\nBEG Nutrition and RPP Class USP
\nRPP Financial management
\nFPT Personal Trainer Certification USP
\nVT Off Automation 1230-230mf
\nRPP Personal Financial management
\nRPP Resume Skills
\nRPP Effective Interview Skills
\nRPP Mock Job Fair
\nVT OFF Automation 12e30-230mw
\nRPP Job search skills
\nAdvanced Spanish
\nJob application skills
\nBeginning Sign language
\nIntro to Alpha Smart Operation
\nRecreation Aide Training
\nP Fitness Trainer
\nFlip This House
\nBeginner Calisthenics
\nReal Estate
\nBeginning Spanish
\nStep Aerobics
\nCalisthenics, M & W
\nAbdominals
\nELL Law Library Orientation
\nCSSF-Finance Seminar
\nCSSF-Employment Seminar
\nRPP 6\/USP Social services\/F
\nPersonal Growth\/Development
\nPre-release Health and Nutrition
\nBasic legal workshop
\nJump Rope
\nRunning and walking
\nWellness
\nPractical math
\nBasic COMM Concepts
\nFitness
\nAnger management
\nLife without a Crutch
\nCommitment to Change I, II, & III<\/p>\n

In Robert’s words:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am ready, willing, and prepared to make a successful reintegration back into society after serving 24 years of imprisonment. Every day away from my family, my daughter and my grandchildren is one day too much. \u00a0I have much to offer, not only to my family, and community, but to this beautiful country we live in. \u00a0I am no longer the person I was when I was too young to understand the consequences of my actions. I have grown, matured, and evolved into this man who now looks back in hindsight, and realizes I made a horrible mistake. Yes, I was very young, but that is no excuse for my crime. \u00a0I have embraced every program as my list of accomplishments establishes. My desire to be the best version of myself is reflective in the extremely long list of accomplishments and courses I have completed in prison. \u00a0I am more than ready and prepared to make my contributions to this beautiful country. I need clemency because another day away from my family is one more day that I cannot afford. I have done my all to not only rehabilitate myself, but more importantly, I have changed my entire thought process and the way I use to think. For now, I realize that hard work, education, and dedication are the true keys to a successful life. There are no short cuts. I learned that the hard way! My life has a purpose. I have a purpose and clemency will give me the chance to be the best son, brother, father, grandfather and husband that I have ever hoped to be. I deserve clemency because I have worked hard for it. I deserve a second chance, because that’s all I need to get it right. \u00a0I am ready to live. More ready than I have ever been for anything in my life. I have never taken on the “defeatist” perspective. I always believed in fairness. Just as I believe there is fairness in this country. To accept my current circumstances as my final destination in this life…never! I have always had always “hope” that the future will be much better than the present, but only as long as I keep the faith and work to make it so. \u00a0It’s the only way that my dreams, thoughts, and talents will come into fruition. Freedom is what I need…and First Step Act will give me that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert served his time and is currently living in Chicago. Watch Robert’s sister Veda Ajamu on NBC news about the passing of First Step Act Please sign Robert Shipp’s change.org petition Robert was featured in The Mercy Lottery: A Review of the Obama Administration\u2019s Clemency Initiative by NYU Law School released June 2018; a thesis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-5287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-free","tag-can-do-foundation"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Robert-Shipp.png",410,408,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"Now Free","slug":"now-free","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":192,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":192,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Now Free","category_nicename":"now-free","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-foundation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":461,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"Now Free"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14845,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/14845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}