“I’m here to tell you, the work that you do is relevant and the system (parole) that you have created is effective.
Sheffield says the system the Parole Board has does work. He continues to help others beat addiction. His most recent accomplishment was completing additional training to become a Certified Addiction Recovery Empowerment Specialist (CARES). Today, Sheffield is the manager of the Georgia Pines Community Service Board’s Addictions Recovery Support Center in Thomasville, Georgia, and he’s a certified addictions counselor.
His 10-year sentence was commuted in 2003 and his political and civil rights were restored at that time. Sheffield was paroled from prison in 1997. “I made a conscious decision to turn my will and my life over to God.” Sheffield says the difference between him and many offenders, who are granted parole, was a decision that he made. “Because of the opportunity the Parole Board gave me, I then was able to re-educate myself and position myself to educate and re-educate others and that’s been the most gratifying thing that I’ve received,” Sheffield told the Parole Board in August of 2020.Īt the Board’s monthly meeting, Sheffield spoke about his life, including the successful football career, and his addiction, prison, parole, and recovery. State Board of Pardons and Paroles MemorialĬhristopher Sheffield at August 2020 Parole Board Meetingīut as Sheffield told the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, as he received a pardon from the state, his opportunity on parole led to the ability to help others defeat addictions.
Transitional Housing For Offender Reentry Ellison was one of two independent members named to the board in late 2018 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which had demanded more oversight of Musk.Pardon/Parole Consideration and Guidelines The company, meanwhile, said Ellison, a major Tesla investor and friend of Musk's, will be stepping down from its board. Tesla shareholders will vote on the share split at the company's annual meeting on Aug. Musk is planning on using his Tesla shares as collateral for buying Twitter, as well as potentially selling down his stake in the company to help with financing. In its statement, Tesla said it was trying to accomplish both of these goals: giving its employees greater quantities of shares as well as making the stock more accessible to retail investors. Share splits are used by companies when their stock price gets too high for retail investors to buy individual shares, or when a company wants more shares to exist in the marketplace to make the stock more liquid to trade. Shares in the company headquartered in Austin, Texas, closed Friday at $696.69. At that time the shares were trading at over $1,000 each.īut Tesla's stock has fallen about 39% since early April, shortly after its CEO Elon Musk started raising the idea of buying Twitter. The company said in late March that was planning to split its stock for the second time in two years. made the announcement in its annual proxy statement, which also said Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison will not be standing for re-election to the company's board.
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