June 2, 2025
Larry Hoover’s household is in search of state clemency to assist the Gangster Disciples co-founder safe his freedom for the primary time in over 50 years.
After receiving federal clemency from Donald Trump, Larry Hoover’s household has turned to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to hunt a state commutation for the Gangsters Disciples co-founder.
The Hoover household visited Gov. Pritzker’s workplace Could 31 to advocate for the discharge of Hoover, 74, after greater than 5 many years behind bars, the Chicago Solar-Instances reviews.
Hoover’s spouse, Winndye Jenkins-Hoover; their son, Larry Hoover Jr.; and almost a dozen members of the family left Pritzker’s workplace feeling hopeful that the previous drug kingpin and reformed gang chief might quickly acquire the governor’s assist and reclaim his freedom.
“I believe we now have an amazing likelihood proper now,” Jenkins-Hoover mentioned.
State Sen. Willie Preston, D-Chicago, confirmed his assist for Hoover’s household by becoming a member of them for the go to and calling the assessment course of into Hoover’s clemency course of on the state facet “imperfect.”
Preston agrees {that a} case as delicate as Hoover’s is “greatest dealt with straight by the governor via a swift and decisive motion.”
“If we consider that nobody is past redemption, then we now have to take a look at the totality of this particular person’s life, and I believe, if we take all that into context, whether or not you’re Black, Hispanic, white, you’ll say that we have to permit this aged man to return house and have some sense of humanity given again to him,” Preston mentioned.
The workplace go to got here days after Trump commuted Hoover’s federal life sentence, issued in 1998, for working the Gangster Disciples’ $100 million-a-year drug operation from behind bars whereas already serving up to 200 years for ordering a rival gang member’s homicide in 1973.
Hoover stays incarcerated underneath his state sentence until Pritzker commutes it or the Illinois Prisoner Assessment Board grants clemency.
“My father isn’t the infamous Gangster Disciples chief Larry Hoover…He’s not a assassin. He hasn’t murdered anybody,” Larry Hoover Jr. mentioned. “He deserves an opportunity.”
“We simply need him to return house so he can have his closing days with the love and compassion and respect that all of us have for one another, inside our household,” Jenkins-Hoover mentioned.
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