Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’
Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’
Leon Hotchkiss, now 68, remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. The parole board thinks he should stay there.
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This stuff just makes my blood boil. Those 3 assholes on the parole board are complete sociopaths. There's absolutely no justice here.
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Well, political positions, yes. But there are tons of government employees around the country that are just normal people working at a regulatory agency. The overwhelming majority of them. They're just doing their job.
At least for now. SCOTUS is very close to changing that.
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It's actually a requirement I think.
In WA during lockdown, they requested compassionate release of someone who was paralyzed on half his body and confined to a chair. The DOC decided that he was a threat to society and needed to be kept in the COVID greenhouse.