Drake and Kanye West hosted a benefit concert on Thursday night 12/9 to free former Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover from a federal supermax prison. The convert streamed on Amazon and in select IMAX theaters and raised money for nonprofits focused on prison reform….AND NOT TO LARRY HOOVER.
While the event will likely raise lots of money, some of which will go to great organizations like the Uptown People’s Law Center, it is unlikely to get Hoover out of prison. Hoover has both state and federal convictions, the former for a 1973 murder and the latter 1997 conviction for running a criminal enterprise in Chicago. While his federal conviction can technically be revisited under new federal criminal justice reforms, his state conviction has no such flexibility. Even if his federal conviction was commuted, he would be shifted to state prison to serve the remainder of his 200-year murder sentence.
