2Pac's stepfather, Mtulu Shakur, has been granted compassionate release from prison amid his battle with stage 3 bone marrow cancer.

According to the Intercept, on Thursday the U.S. Parole Commission confirmed Shakur, who has spent more than 36 years in prison and is dying of bone marrow cancer, will be released. “We now find your medical condition renders you so infirm of mind and body that you are no longer physically capable of committing any Federal, State or local crime,” the parole commission said.

In May, a Bureau of Prisons doctor said Shakur had less than six months to live. Shakur will spend his remaining days in Southern California with his family. Prior to his incarceration, Shakur was a member of the Black nationalist organization Republic of New Afrika, and worked as an acupuncturist. In 1988, Shakur was convicted of RICO conspiracy, armed bank robbery and bank robbery killings and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He was also convicted for aiding in the prison escape of Black activist Assata Shakur.

“We are relieved that the Parole Commission now recognizes what has long been true — that Dr. Shakur’s release poses no risk whatsoever,” said one of Shakur’s attorneys, Brad Thomson of the People’s Law Office. “It is tragic that it took until he was on the verge of death for that truth to finally be realized. “Mutulu will now be able to live out his final days, surrounded by the love and care of his family and close friends.”