Stanley Bellamy

Stanley Bellamy was convicted of murder and sentenced to 62 1/2 years to life in 1987. He is now 58 years old and has already served over three decades in various New York State prisons. He is scheduled to see the Parole Board in 2047, when, should he live that long, he would be 85.

Mr. Bellamy submitted a 346 page clemency petition on December 10, 2018 illustrating his remarkable transformation over the past 35 years. While incarcerated, he obtained his GED, Associates Degree (where he was named Salutatorian) and Bachelor's Degree with a 4.0 GPA. He ran a yearly anti-violence seminar while at Sullivan Correctional Facility, has written about the consequences of violent crime, mentored countless incarcerated young men, and created many programs. He is also the co-founder the Civic Duty Initiative which launched the first ever New York State prisoner gun buy-back program, created literature about domestic violence prevention and raised money for school supplies of incarcerated parents. You can read Mr. Bellamy's own words in the op-ed he wrote here: https://bit.ly/3510rAz.