From Capital B News:
A weekend visit to family on Long Island, New York, turned into Kenneth Hogan’s last days of freedom.
At 20 years old, Hogan was a father of two and his mother’s main support system. Hogan says he sold drugs in Albany, New York, to financially survive and yet he aspired to break his family’s generational curse. He was the last of his siblings to serve time in a local jail or state prison, but that changed in 2000. Hogan was arrested along with his cousin for the murder and robbery of his cousin’s associate. Hogan admits he was present when the shooting happened, but he was not the shooter. Law enforcement tied the gun to his 19-year-old cousin.
What Hogan wasn’t prepared to wrap his young adult brain around was the complexities of the criminal justice system and its felony murder law or the legal concept of “acting in concert” that have placed more Black people under 25 years old in prison for lengthy sentences even though someone else pulled the trigger. Continue reading >>>
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