This content could not be loaded Why does Kanye West want to free Larry Hoover? Some of his supporters want him back with his family and think that he is a political prisoner and a very wonderful leader.
Recall that before the feds sidelined him, Hoover was drawing close to parole in Illinois, with several Chicago civic leaders ready to vouch that he was a changed man.
Former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer had spoken out in favor of Larry getting parole in 1993, during a campaign to have him released on the 20th anniversary of his sentence.
Trump shot that down, and just this past summer a federal judge denied Hoover's request for a compassionate release.
When he was a baby, his mother took him to visit his imprisoned father about thrice a year.
At the time of the 1997 conviction, Hoover was already serving a 200-year sentence for murder.
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