President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, but the 74-year-old notorious gang leader isn’t leaving prison anytime soon. The commutation applies to Hoover’s federal ...

Larry Hoover's family is seeking state clemency to help the Gangster Disciples co-founder secure his freedom for the first time in over 50 years. After receiving federal clemency from Donald Trump, ...

President Donald Trump appears to have first heard of gang kingpin Larry Hoover during a 2018 press event with the rapper Kanye West— also known as Ye—that has been called the craziest Oval Office ...

Lawyers for Hoover, 74, say his health is deteriorating. Lawyers for Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples, are asking Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to grant him state clemency following Donald ...

Some community and elected leaders on Chicago's South Side are calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to offer clemency to former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover one day after his federal sentences were ...

Former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover’s federal prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump, sparking widespread discussion and renewed attention to his decades-long incarceration. Hoover ...

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When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have marked the first time a form of clemency was granted on a current inmate of the ...

My jaw dropped while reading Jeremy Busby’s impassioned plea for Gov. JB Pritzker to free from prison post-haste the notorious 1970s gang leader Larry Hoover (“Pritzker should take page out of Trump’s ...