Here is the picture that TMZ put up, It is obviously Wesley’s head on another person’s body. I feel this picture does not give Wesley the dignity he deserves for taking the practice of Yoga to his fellow inmates in jail.

THE BENEFITS OF YOGA FOR PRISON / JAIL INMATES

I wanted to make sure that you all understand the tremendous benefits that Mr. Snipes is providing to his fellow inmates.  This description comes from Yogamag.net
Yoga is being taught in many prisons around the world for a variety of reasons: for the management of stress, for general health and the alleviation of different physical problems, but mostly as a method to correct and reform the criminal personality. The latter is finding more recognition and acceptance from governments and prison authorities

Recently I wrote about Russell Simmons who also shares the benefits of Yoga with his book “Super Rich” here is the link to learn more :

For more information on how to support Wesley Snipes http://www.freesnipesnow.com

Perhaps, Wesley should be added to this related article:   Black Yoga Instructors You Should Know:

You make not be on lock down (lol) , however , take a break at your desk with this Yoga Flava Video Snack for relief of tension.

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Via: WRAL

Looks like the lifers will not be getting out of jail as expected.

Raleigh, N.C. — The state Department of Correction has adjusted release dates for 27 inmates who should be freed following an appellate court ruling, setting the earliest date for unconditional release in 2054, officials said Thursday.

The inmates – mostly convicted murderers and sex offenders – were scheduled to be released last month after the state Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeals ruling in favor of double murderer Bobby Bowden. He contended that a 1970s law defined a life sentence as 80 years and sued for his release.

The 1981 Fair Sentencing Act included a retroactive provision that essentially cut all of those sentences in half, and Bowden and his attorneys argued that good behavior and other credits have shortened the sentences to the point that they are now complete.

The potential releases sparked outrage among many, including the governor, partly because all but one of the inmates would be free without any post-release supervision.

Gov. Beverly Perdue, who has vowed to block the releases, has argued that officials improperly applied some of the credits.

“I will continue to pursue all legal means of preventing the release of these inmates without any review by the parole board or any post-release supervision,” Perdue said in a statement.

Four inmates involved in pre-release programs who were scheduled to be released in 2010 and one in 2011 are not affected by the new plan, a DOC spokesman said.

DOC Secretary Alvin Keller has directed that the unconditional release date for each life sentence imposed for crimes between April 8, 1974, and June 30, 1978, be calculated as 80 years, minus applicable jail credit earned while the prisoner awaited conviction and sentencing.

Staples Hughes, the state appellate defender whose office represented Bowden, said it was regrettable the state was spending so much time and money pursuing an argument that has no legal basis.

“They, in essence, are continuing to attempt to defy the rule of law,” Hughes said. “It has long since ceased to be a legal issue. It is simply a political issue and a mechanism for the governor to use to attempt to raise her popularity.”

According to Keller, the Fair Sentencing Act specifically prohibited felons serving life prison sentences from receiving good behavior credits for purposes of unconditional release from prison.

James Woodward, the DOC secretary in 1983, expanded the rule to apply to those serving life terms.

Since 1955, the DOC has awarded good behavior credits for prisoners with life sentences only for purposes of earning a more favorable custody grade, for becoming eligible for parole and for a commutation of a sentence by the governor, Keller said.

The department will continue to do so but won’t award credits to calculate an unconditional release date, he said.

Via: WRAL

Gov. Bev Perdue justifies hiring a convicted killer but blocking inmates from being released under an old sentencing law.

Sally Holloman was convicted in 1981 of fatally poisoning her husband and killing a Selma businessman by shooting him five times in the back and setting him on fire.

About two decades later, then-Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue hired Holloman to work in her office in the State Capitol as part of a Department of Correction work-release program.

As governor, Perdue is now fighting a court order to release 27 inmates who were sentenced to life under an old sentencing law, but she said Tuesday that the two situations are “totally different.”

Holloman was paroled in 2005. Perdue wrote a positive evaluation of Holloman’s work, which was included in her file before the Parole Commission.

“Sally is now working in the private sector, making good money. She is an older woman who I believe is very well supervised,” Perdue said.

Although Perdue has repeatedly backed up her refusal to release the inmates by saying she believes a life sentence should mean life in prison, she said Tuesday that supervision outside of prison is what separates the Holloman case from the rest.

The 27 inmates were scheduled to be released last Thursday after the state Supreme Court agreed with double murderer Bobby Bowden, who contended that a 1970s law defined a life sentence as 80 years and sued for his release.

The 1981 Fair Sentencing Act included a retroactive provision that essentially cut all of those sentences in half, and good behavior and other credits have shortened the sentences to the point that they are now complete.

Over time, Perdue said, more than 120 people serving life sentences could qualify for early release under the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Holloman was in a supervised setting while working at the capitol and remains in one, Perdue said. The court-ordered release she opposes doesn’t provide the inmates with any supervision once they get out of prison, she said.

“(I) support parole under the auspices of the Parole Commission, where there is community supervision,” she said. “The release by the courts automatically of more than 120 rapists and murderers – people that are heinous – to live next door to you and your young child with no supervision is inappropriate in my opinion.

“I do not support automatic release without supervision. I can’t see these (cases) are anything near the same.”

According to the Department of Correction, 603 inmates serving life sentences have been paroled since 1995. All went through a comprehensive transitional program, and less than 8 percent returned to prison.

A majority of the 27 inmates covered by the court order will not have gone through any transitional program. Three of the inmates were enrolled in a work-release program and would have been free to pursue work outside prison walls before Perdue’s decision to block their release.

Appellate defender Staples Hughes, who represents the inmates, said the state should immediately begin preparing the inmates for release by offering them job training, mentoring and other counseling.

“If the governor is saying, ‘I am afraid that these people are going to be a problem for public safety,’ let’s do something about that because they’re going to be released,” Hughes said.

The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments in the case in a few months.