The Virginia Parole Board voted 3-0 last month to grant conditional freedom to Finney-Smith’s father, Elbert Smith Jr., who has been incarcerated for the last 28 years and four months of Dorian’s 30-year life.
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When he was a toddler, less than two years old, Dorian Finney-Smith lost his father. Elbert Smith Jr. did not die. Instead, he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 44 years in a Virginia.
The US may be the only nation where dogs are set on men inside their cells. The attacks have left many with muscle damage, septic infections, and trauma.
The decision dramatically expands a legal action filed in 2019 by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 11 inmates at the so-called supermax prison in Wise County.