Renaldo Hudson is an educator, minister, and community organizer focused on ending perpetual punishment in Illinois. After being sentenced to death row, Hudson spent thirty-seven years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Renaldo is also the founder of the prison newspaper Stateville Speaks and the Building Block Program, a peer mentoring program led by incarcerated people within the Illinois Department of Corrections. He was released in September 2020 when Governor Pritzker commuted his life sentence and subsequently became the Director of Education for the Illinois Prison Project.