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Forbes
a day ago
- Business
- Forbes
Prisoners Set Back By Bureau Of Prisons Home Confinement 'Expansion'
Newly appointed Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director William Marshall III wrapped himself in the Trump flag by announcing an expansion of use of home confinement to allow prisoners more time in the community at the end of their prison sentence. Unfortunately, for many in prison the actions by the BOP will lead to longer stays in institutions, which is both more costly and a blow to those trying to get home sooner. The BOP issued a press release on May 28, 2025 touting, 'Federal Bureau of Prisons Issues Directive to Expand Home Confinement, Advance First Step Act.' However, a closer look reveals that this move neither expands home confinement nor advances First Step Act. When Trump signed the First Step Act into law in December 2018, advocates, prisoners and criminal justice reform groups all touted it as a major victory. The law was meant to both reduce the sentences for non-violent prisoners, many of whom are first time offenders, by up to a year and also give them the opportunity to serve more of their sentence under strict conditions in the community. However, the BOP has had a difficult time implementing this law under multiple directors since becoming law. It took over three years for the Department of Justice and BOP to finalize the Final Rule for First Step Act. During that time, thousands of inmates stayed in prison hoping they would receive credits to reduce their sentence. From January 2022 until now, the BOP has taken different positions on the law, leading some to get out of prison too late while others enjoyed the additional credits and were released earlier than anticipated. The BOP initially implemented the First Step Act by capping the credits through a rule that stated no credits could be earned within 6 months of release. BOP then issued a memorandum in March 2025 limiting the amount of halfway house placement for federal inmates from 12 months to 2 months, something central to the Second Chance Act, another hallmark piece of criminal justice reform. Both of these actions were rescinded after outcry from advocacy groups. In September 2024, the BOP implemented a new calculator to anticipate the effects of the First Step Act after other iterations of the calculator proved to be an inaccurate tool. The result was a predictive report that every inmate was given that provided them with a projected date for leaving the institution to live in the community and a release date from BOP custody. The reaction to those in custody and their families was immediate joy, however, that was short lived. The reports reflected 'stacking' the practice of showing the inmate both all of their First Step Act credits and the maximum amount of prerelease custody (12 months) under the Second Chance Act. To date, few inmates ever received the full compliments of these credits and the recent memorandum from Director Marshall upends 'Stacking.' Many people want to know what the new memorandum means and the BOP provided a statement clarifying their rule. When asked whether inmates are still eligible for Second Chance Act placement up to 12 months prior to their FSA conditional placement date, as has been the case, the BOP responded, 'Due to statutory restrictions found in 18 U.S.C. 3624(c)(1), an individual who has earned 365 days (12 months) of First Step Act credits to be applied to prerelease custody cannot receive additional prerelease time under the Second Chance Act.' The BOP's current stance contradicts its position from just a few months ago, when it stated that stacking First Step Act and Second Chance Act benefits was permissible. Now, without addressing its previous position, the BOP asserts that home confinement under the Second Chance Act is only allowed by law during the final 12 months of a prison sentence. Additionally, the BOP claims that home confinement under the First Step Act can only be applied when the First Step Act time credits earned are equal to the remaining length of the prison term. This means an inmate cannot apply First Step Act credits to home confinement while also receiving up to 12 months of prerelease custody (6 months in a halfway house and 6 months in home confinement) under the Second Chance Act. For many inmates, this change means they will have to remain in prison for up to a year longer than they had initially expected. The BOP's statement went on to say, 'For individuals eligible under the First Step Act (18 U.S.C. § 3624(g)), and who are projected to earn at least 365 days (12 months) of time credits for prerelease custody, referrals should be based on credits and the corresponding First Step Act Conditional Placement Date. There is no restriction concerning how many credits may be applied toward home confinement.' Those who earn a year off of their sentence and another year toward home confinement will not receive any Second Chance Act, meaning they will serve a year in a prison that could have been spent in the community. Former BOP Director Colette Peters (fired on January 20, 2025 by Trump), stated in a congressional hearing last year that capacity at BOP halfway houses was capped out. She stated at the time, "So this [halfway house capacity] is almost as significant of a problem as our recruitment and retention crisis and our infrastructure crisis, because as you're aware ... now under the First Step Act, they could spend months or years, and so that has created a substantial backlog in our residential reentry center.' In December 2018, when the First Step Act was signed into law, the residential reentry centers (or halfway houses) had a capacity of 10,500 beds. At that time, it was understood that the law would increase the number of people placed in prerelease custody. However, as of today, the capacity of halfway houses remains largely the same. As a result, those who are eligible for First Step Act credits, which would allow them to return home sooner, now find themselves competing for limited bed space with individuals who have been incarcerated for decades and rely on halfway house resources to reintegrate into society. The intent of the new memorandum was to redirect individuals who do not require halfway house services to home confinement. However, the outcome may be that fewer people are able to leave prison, and those who could have served part of their sentence in the community will end up remaining in prison for a longer period. In his press release about the expansion of halfway house use, Director Marshall said, 'President Trump said he would fight for the forgotten men and women of this country, and the First Step Act proved he meant it. Now, we are ensuring that this reform continues to work—not just as a policy, but as a promise to Americans seeking redemption and a path forward.' This new directive seems counter to Trump's promise.
Epoch Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- Epoch Times
Supreme Court to Hear Prisoner's Appeal Seeking Reduced Sentence Under First Step Act
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an inmate's argument that federal courts may consider his claim of innocence when deciding whether to reduce his sentence under the First Step Act. The bipartisan measure approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in 2018, reformed aspects of the criminal justice system, making it easier for the courts to reduce penalties for certain offenders.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,' Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder whose sentence was commuted
CHICAGO — A day after President Donald Trump's stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder were singing the president's praises while Chicago's new FBI boss told the Tribune he 'deserves to be in prison.' Trump abruptly ended Hoover's long quest to win early release under the First Step Act by granting a full commutation of his sentence Wednesday afternoon, directing the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to release him 'immediately,' according to a copy of the document provided by Hoover's legal team. But Hoover is still serving a 200-year sentence for his state court conviction for murder, making him likely to stay behind bars. 'The President of the United States has the authority to pardon whoever he wishes,' FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas DePodesta said during an interview on unrelated topics. 'I think Larry Hoover caused a lot of damage in this city and he deserves to be in prison and he will continue to be imprisoned in the state system.' As of Thursday, Hoover was still stationed at the supermax prison compound in Florence, Colorado, that he's called home for the past two decades, and his release date in online prison records had changed to 'UNKNOWN.' The U.S. Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the plan for his release. On Thursday afternoon, one of Hoover's lead attorneys, Justin Moore, told the Tribune he was stationed nearby the prison in Colorado hoping to hear any word. 'We're in limbo,' he said. Moore also said he'd spoken with an elated Hoover earlier in the day — describing his typically even-keeled client as 'jubilant.' 'He's always been not too much up or down,' Moore said. 'This was the first time I've seen him genuinely happy, and he expressed great optimism for the future. It's a day that we've constantly talked about since the first First Step briefings and hearings eight or nine years ago.' Moore praised Trump for making the move, which he said former President Joe Biden had also considered but rejected. 'The president showed a great deal of courage in making the decision he did,' Moore said. Others, meanwhile, were not so jubilant that Hoover may be coming back to Illinois one step closer to freedom. DePodesta, who took over the Chicago Field Office in August, told the Tribune on Thursday his agents will be on the lookout for any increased gang activity. DePodesta, who spent years as an FBI special agent in Chicago tasked to cartels and gang investigations, said that when Hoover was in the supermax setting, it was 'very hard to communicate out of there.' 'With any gang, we always will continue to work our confidential human sources, our technical sources to determine if there is a spike in gang activity…this will be no different,' he said. Trump's intervention in Hoover's case is the latest in a small parade of notable Chicago-area defendants the president has granted clemency to, most notably the commutation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence for corruption in February 2020, which he followed five years later with a full pardon. Near the end of his first term, Trump also granted a full pardon to Casey Urlacher after a personal pitch from his brother, former Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, on charges related to an illegal sports gambling ring in 2021, and commuted the 20-year sentence of Chicago-area nursing home mogul Philip Esformes, who was convicted of cycling elderly, destitute and drug-addicted patients through his network of facilities and billing millions of dollars to government programs. While Trump has not commented directly on his decision on Hoover, the effort to get the president's attention goes back years and involved several celebrity pitches, including a bizarre, highly publicized meeting with Chicago rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, in the White House. At the meeting, West, a vocal Trump supporter, urged Trump to free Hoover, describing him as a man who was turning his life around when law enforcement went after him and calling him a 'living statue' to African Americans. The meeting was also attended by Moore. Following the news of Hoover's commutation Wednesday, West posted to social media, 'WORDS CAN'T EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR OUR DEVOTED ENDURING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FOR FREEING LARRY HOOVER.' Hoover's case also has a connection to Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate and Trump's new 'pardon czar' who was granted clemency for drug trafficking charges by Trump in his first term. Johnson's clemency petition was pushed heavily by Kim Kardashian, Kanye West's then-wife, who used her husband's connections to get face-time with Trump at the White House. Moore said Thursday that even though Trump took no action on Hoover's case in his first term, Hoover's legal team 'stuck with it' and circled back a few weeks ago with a new clemency petition that laid out how Hoover 'without question is rehabilitated, he's reformed and his risk of recidivism is nearly zero.' He said comments like those by DePodesta were 'postering' of law enforcement without an understanding of the science behind rehabilitation. One of the nation's largest street gangs, the Gangster Disciples became a major criminal force under Hoover's leadership, with operations that spread to dozens of U.S. cities and were as sophisticated as many legitimate corporations, including a strict code of conduct for members and a franchise-style system for drug sales. But they were also notoriously brutal, using violence and murder as a way to keep rivals at bay and even punish members who went astray. Hoover was convicted in state court in 1973 of the murder of William Young, one of Hoover's gang underlings who was shot to death that same year after he and others had stolen from gang stash houses. He was sentenced to 200 years in prison. In the early 1990s, before Hoover was charged in federal court, former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer lobbied the IDOC parole board on his behalf, arguing that Hoover could help stem Chicago's street violence if he were allowed to return home, the Tribune reported at the time. Hoover was indicted in federal court in 1995 on charges he continued to oversee the murderous drug gang's reign of terror from prison. He was convicted on 40 criminal counts in 1997, and then-U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber sentenced him to the mandatory term of life. For years, Hoover has been housed in solitary confinement at the supermax prison in Colorado, which counts a number of high-profile and notorious detainees, including Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, Sept. 11 terrorist attack plotter Zacarias Moussaoui, and Jeff Fort, the Chicago gang leader who founded the El Rukns. Meanwhile, Hoover was still listed Thursday in online state prison records for Dixon Correctional Center in western Illinois — the same prison where he continued to run the Gangster Disciples before being convicted on federal charges in the 1990s — with a parole date of October 2062. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board last year heard arguments for Hoover's release, but ultimately denied the request, records show. The review board won't hear his case for another four years, records show. Hoover could also petition Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency — a move that would also come with a recommendation to the governor from the Prisoner Review Board. In one of his social media posts after Hoover's commutation Wednesday, Moore said the effort to end his federal sentence was 'all faith, legal precision, and relentless determination.' '6 life sentences. Beneath the Rocky Mountains. Gone. Just like that,' he said. 'Chicago, it's your turn. Illinois must send him home for good.' _____
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,' Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder
A day after Donald Trump's stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder were singing the president's praises while Chicago's new FBI boss told the Tribune he 'deserves to be in prison.' Trump abruptly ended Hoover's long quest to win early release under the First Step Act by granting a full commutation of his sentence Wednesday afternoon, directing the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to release him 'immediately,' according to a copy of the document provided by Hoover's legal team. But Hoover is still serving a 200-year sentence for his state court conviction for murder, making him likely to stay behind bars. 'The President of the United States has the authority to pardon whoever he wishes,' FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas DePodesta said during an interview on unrelated topics. 'I think Larry Hoover caused a lot of damage in this city and he deserves to be in prison and he will continue to be imprisoned in the state system.' As of Thursday, Hoover was still stationed at the supermax prison compound in Florence, Colorado, that he's called home for the past two decades, and his release date in online prison records had changed to 'UNKNOWN.' The U.S. Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the plan for his release. On Thursday afternoon, one of Hoover's lead attorneys, Justin Moore, told the Tribune he was stationed nearby the prison in Colorado hoping to hear any word. 'We're in limbo,' he said. Moore also said he'd spoken with an elated Hoover earlier in the day — describing his typically even-keeled client as 'jubilant.' 'He's always been not too much up or down,' Moore said. 'This was the first time I've seen him genuinely happy, and he expressed great optimism for the future. It's a day that we've constantly talked about since the first First Step briefings and hearings eight or nine years ago.' Moore praised Trump for making the move, which he said Biden had also considered but rejected. 'The president showed a great deal of courage in making the decision he did,' Moore said. Others, meanwhile, were not so jubilant that Hoover may be coming back to Illinois one step closer to freedom. DePodesta, who took over the Chicago Field Office in August, told the Tribune on Thursday his agents will be on the lookout for any increased gang activity. DePodesta, who spent years as an FBI special agent in Chicago tasked to cartels and gang investigations, said that when Hoover was in the supermax setting, it was 'very hard to communicate out of there.' 'With any gang, we always will continue to work our confidential human sources, our technical sources to determine if there is a spike in gang activity…this will be no different,' he said. Trump's intervention in Hoover's case is the latest in a small parade of notable Chicago-area defendants the president has granted clemency to, most notably the commutation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence for corruption in February 2020, which he followed five years later with a full pardon. Near the end of his first term, Trump also granted a full pardon to Casey Urlacher after a personal pitch from his brother, former Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, on charges related to an illegal sports gambling ring in 2021, and commuted the 20-year sentence of Chicago-area nursing home mogul Philip Esformes, who was convicted of cycling elderly, destitute and drug-addicted patients through his network of facilities and billing millions of dollars to government programs. While Trump has not commented directly on his decision on Hoover, the effort to get the president's attention goes back years and involved several celebrity pitches, including a bizarre, highly publicized meeting with Chicago rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, in the White House. At the meeting, West, a vocal Trump supporter, urged Trump to free Hoover, describing him as a man who was turning his life around when law enforcement went after him and calling him a 'living statue' to African Americans. The meeting was also attended by Moore. Following the news of Hoover's commutation Wednesday, West posted to social media, 'WORDS CAN'T EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR OUR DEVOTED ENDURING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FOR FREEING LARRY HOOVER.' Hoover's case also has a connection to Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate and Trump's new 'pardon czar' who was granted clemency for drug trafficking charges by Trump in his first term. Johnson's clemency petition was pushed heavily by Kim Kardashian, Kanye West's then-wife, who used her husband's connections to get face-time with Trump at the White House. Moore said Thursday that even though Trump took no action on Hoover's case in his first term, Hoover's legal team 'stuck with it' and circled back a few weeks ago with a new clemency petition that laid out how Hoover 'without question is rehabilitated, he's reformed and his risk of recidivism is nearly zero.' He said comments like those by DePodesta were 'postering' of law enforcement without an understanding of the science behind rehabilitation. One of the nation's largest street gangs, the Gangster Disciples became a major criminal force under Hoover's leadership, with operations that spread to dozens of U.S. cities and were as sophisticated as many legitimate corporations, including a strict code of conduct for members and a franchise-style system for drug sales. But they were also notoriously brutal, using violence and murder as a way to keep rivals at bay and even punish members who went astray. Hoover was convicted in state court in 1973 of the murder of William Young, one of Hoover's gang underlings who was shot to death that same year after he and others had stolen from gang stash houses. He was sentenced to 200 years in prison. In the early 1990s, before Hoover was charged in federal court, former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer lobbied the IDOC parole board on his behalf, arguing that Hoover could help stem Chicago's street violence if he were allowed to return home, the Tribune reported at the time. Hoover was indicted in federal court in 1995 on charges he continued to oversee the murderous drug gang's reign of terror from prison. He was convicted on 40 criminal counts in 1997, and then-U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber sentenced him to the mandatory term of life. For years, Hoover has been housed in solitary confinement at the supermax prison in Colorado, which counts a number of high-profile and notorious detainees, including Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, Sept. 11 terrorist attack plotter Zacarias Moussaoui, and Jeff Fort, the Chicago gang leader who founded the El Rukns. Meanwhile, Hoover was still listed Thursday in online state prison records for Dixon Correctional Center in western Illinois — the same prison where he continued to run the Gangster Disciples before being convicted on federal charges in the 1990s — with a parole date of October 2062. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board last year heard arguments for Hoover's release, but ultimately denied the request, records show. The review board won't hear his case for another four years, records show. Hoover could also petition Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency — a move that would also come with a recommendation to the governor from the Prisoner Review Board. In one of his social media posts after Hoover's commutation Wednesday, Moore said the effort to end his federal sentence was 'all faith, legal precision, and relentless determination.' '6 life sentences. Beneath the Rocky Mountains. Gone. Just like that,' he said. 'Chicago, it's your turn. Illinois must send him home for good.' jmeisner@
Chicago Tribune
3 days ago
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,' Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder
A day after Donald Trump's stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder were singing the president's praises while Chicago's new FBI boss told the Tribune he 'deserves to be in prison.' Trump abruptly ended Hoover's long quest to win early release under the First Step Act by granting a full commutation of his sentence Wednesday afternoon, directing the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to release him 'immediately,' according to a copy of the document provided by Hoover's legal team. But Hoover is still serving a 200-year sentence for his state court conviction for murder, making him likely to stay behind bars. 'The President of the United States has the authority to pardon whoever he wishes,' FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas DePodesta said during an interview on unrelated topics. 'I think Larry Hoover caused a lot of damage in this city and he deserves to be in prison and he will continue to be imprisoned in the state system.' As of Thursday, Hoover was still stationed at the supermax prison compound in Florence, Colorado, that he's called home for the past two decades, and his release date in online prison records had changed to 'UNKNOWN.' The U.S. Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the plan for his release. On Thursday afternoon, one of Hoover's lead attorneys, Justin Moore, told the Tribune he was stationed nearby the prison in Colorado hoping to hear any word. 'We're in limbo,' he said. Moore also said he'd spoken with an elated Hoover earlier in the day — describing his typically even-keeled client as 'jubilant.' 'He's always been not too much up or down,' Moore said. 'This was the first time I've seen him genuinely happy, and he expressed great optimism for the future. It's a day that we've constantly talked about since the first First Step briefings and hearings eight or nine years ago.' Moore praised Trump for making the move, which he said Biden had also considered but rejected. 'The president showed a great deal of courage in making the decision he did,' Moore said. Others, meanwhile, were not so jubilant that Hoover may be coming back to Illinois one step closer to freedom. DePodesta, who took over the Chicago Field Office in August, told the Tribune on Thursday his agents will be on the lookout for any increased gang activity. DePodesta, who spent years as an FBI special agent in Chicago tasked to cartels and gang investigations, said that when Hoover was in the supermax setting, it was 'very hard to communicate out of there.' 'With any gang, we always will continue to work our confidential human sources, our technical sources to determine if there is a spike in gang activity…this will be no different,' he said. Trump's intervention in Hoover's case is the latest in a small parade of notable Chicago-area defendants the president has granted clemency to, most notably the commutation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence for corruption in February 2020, which he followed five years later with a full pardon. Near the end of his first term, Trump also granted a full pardon to Casey Urlacher after a personal pitch from his brother, former Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, on charges related to an illegal sports gambling ring in 2021, and commuted the 20-year sentence of Chicago-area nursing home mogul Philip Esformes, who was convicted of cycling elderly, destitute and drug-addicted patients through his network of facilities and billing millions of dollars to government programs. While Trump has not commented directly on his decision on Hoover, the effort to get the president's attention goes back years and involved several celebrity pitches, including a bizarre, highly publicized meeting with Chicago rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, in the White House. At the meeting, West, a vocal Trump supporter, urged Trump to free Hoover, describing him as a man who was turning his life around when law enforcement went after him and calling him a 'living statue' to African Americans. The meeting was also attended by Moore. Following the news of Hoover's commutation Wednesday, West posted to social media, 'WORDS CAN'T EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR OUR DEVOTED ENDURING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FOR FREEING LARRY HOOVER.' Hoover's case also has a connection to Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate and Trump's new 'pardon czar' who was granted clemency for drug trafficking charges by Trump in his first term. Johnson's clemency petition was pushed heavily by Kim Kardashian, Kanye West's then-wife, who used her husband's connections to get face-time with Trump at the White House. Moore said Thursday that even though Trump took no action on Hoover's case in his first term, Hoover's legal team 'stuck with it' and circled back a few weeks ago with a new clemency petition that laid out how Hoover 'without question is rehabilitated, he's reformed and his risk of recidivism is nearly zero.' He said comments like those by DePodesta were 'postering' of law enforcement without an understanding of the science behind rehabilitation. One of the nation's largest street gangs, the Gangster Disciples became a major criminal force under Hoover's leadership, with operations that spread to dozens of U.S. cities and were as sophisticated as many legitimate corporations, including a strict code of conduct for members and a franchise-style system for drug sales. But they were also notoriously brutal, using violence and murder as a way to keep rivals at bay and even punish members who went astray. Hoover was convicted in state court in 1973 of the murder of William Young, one of Hoover's gang underlings who was shot to death that same year after he and others had stolen from gang stash houses. He was sentenced to 200 years in prison. In the early 1990s, before Hoover was charged in federal court, former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer lobbied the IDOC parole board on his behalf, arguing that Hoover could help stem Chicago's street violence if he were allowed to return home, the Tribune reported at the time. Hoover was indicted in federal court in 1995 on charges he continued to oversee the murderous drug gang's reign of terror from prison. He was convicted on 40 criminal counts in 1997, and then-U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber sentenced him to the mandatory term of life. For years, Hoover has been housed in solitary confinement at the supermax prison in Colorado, which counts a number of high-profile and notorious detainees, including Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, Sept. 11 terrorist attack plotter Zacarias Moussaoui, and Jeff Fort, the Chicago gang leader who founded the El Rukns. Meanwhile, Hoover was still listed Thursday in online state prison records for Dixon Correctional Center in western Illinois — the same prison where he continued to run the Gangster Disciples before being convicted on federal charges in the 1990s — with a parole date of October 2062. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board last year heard arguments for Hoover's release, but ultimately denied the request, records show. The review board won't hear his case for another four years, records show. Hoover could also petition Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency — a move that would also come with a recommendation to the governor from the Prisoner Review Board. In one of his social media posts after Hoover's commutation Wednesday, Moore said the effort to end his federal sentence was 'all faith, legal precision, and relentless determination.' '6 life sentences. Beneath the Rocky Mountains. Gone. Just like that,' he said. 'Chicago, it's your turn. Illinois must send him home for good.'
