Henry Montgomery, 75, who committed a murder when he was 17, was released from a Louisiana prison Wednesday, years after the Supreme Court made him eligible for parole.

November 19, 2021

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by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Henry Montgomery, 75, who committed a murder when he was 17, was released from a Louisiana prison Wednesday, years after the Supreme Court made him eligible for parole. Montgomery won a case that made people who had been sentenced to life as juveniles eligible for release. But many plaintiffs who win such cases don’t get to go home, Reginald Dwayne Betts writes.

“Montgomery’s release is worthy of note,” Betts writes, “because while there has been plenty of discussion about mass incarceration in academic and nonacademic settings over the past decade, there remains a group of incarcerated men who are still struggling to be free and even struggling to have their right to freedom taken seriously by the public.”

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