President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader and drug kingpin serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. The commutation, first ...

President Trump commuted Larry Hoover's federal sentence after 30 years in supermax prison. The former Chicago gang leader still faces state murder charges.

Hoover, also known as “King Larry,” was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1950. When he was just four years old, his parents moved the family to Chicago, Illinois.

Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on on Feb. 7, 1995, in Dixon, Illinois. (John Dziekan/Chicago Tribune/TNS) ...

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