CHICAGO (WLS) -- The family of an imprisoned former gang leader is making a plea to President Barack Obama.
Jeff Fort's daughter and religious leaders met to call on the president to commute her father's sentence.
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Fort, who now goes by Abdul Malik Kabah, helped found the street gang Black P Stones.
Kabah, who is now is his 60s, is serving time in a Supermax prison in Colorado.
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His family wants President Obama to place Kabah on conditional release to help reduce violence in Chicago.
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Jeff Fort (FILE)