Tupac Shakur's stepfather up for parole after spending 30years in prison.

Rapper, Tupac Shakur's step father, Mutulu
Shakur made the FBI's most wanted list in 1986.

Hee was eventually captured, convicted and
sentenced to 60 years in prison for leading a
revolutionary group responsible for a trail of
bloodshed, including the slayings of an armed
guard and two New York police officers. Shakur
was also charged with aiding fellow
revolutionary Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur)
escape from a New Jersey prison, where she
eventually fled to Cuba. But after serving half
his prison sentence, Mutulu Shakur might soon
be a free man.

The 65-year-old, stepfather to the late rapper
Tupac Shakur, is eligible for mandatory parole
after serving 30 years of the 60-year sentence
he was given in 1988 for masterminding a string
of deadly armed robberies in New York and
Connecticut committed by a militant political
group known as "The Family."

His parole hearing is to take place this week at
the federal penitentiary in Victorville, California,
where he is serving his sentence, according to
U.S. Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr.

Michael Paige, who is the son of one of the
slain armed guards isn't happy about the
upcoming parole hearing.

He said:

"That's the going rate? Thirty years for at
least three lives that were taken?" he
said. "I was 16 years when he was killed
by these animals. Not a day goes by that
I don't think about my father."

Following Mutulu Shakur's parole hearing, a
hearing officer will make a recommendation to
the U.S. Parole Commission on whether or not
he should be released. The federal commission
will make the final decision on whether to grant
parole.

Although federal parole was abolished in 1987, it
is still granted for inmates convicted before
then. And under the rules in place at the time of
his conviction, parole is mandatory for Shakur
unless a commission finds he is likely to
reoffend or has frequently violated prison rules.

Source: AP