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A 23-year sentence should not become a 40-year sentence because the Missouri Department of Corrections miscalculates the time someone has already served. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Yet Deandre Pointer had to appeal his sentence and return to court before the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals ruled in his favor. The court found that the Department of Corrections improperly calculated his sentence credits following resentencing. Despite orders for his sentences to run concurrently, the department pushed his projected release date from 2024 to 2044. A 20-year miscalculation. Cases like this show how difficult sentencing practices and laws can be to understand. Rules governing sentence credits, concurrent and consecutive sentences, and release eligibility are often overly complicated. For incarcerated people and their families, errors can have life-changing consequences. Missouri has also recently enacted additional sentencing measures, adding complexity to an already difficult system. As these laws expand, transparency in how sentences are imposed, calculated, and served becomes even more important. People should not have to spend additional years incarcerated fighting government agencies to enforce their legal rights. Missouri must move away from increasingly complex and punitive sentencing practices toward human dignity, fairness, and decarceration. Accountability means challenging practices that keep people incarcerated beyond their sentences, expanding pathways home, and recognizing that justice cannot be measured by time behind bars. #MOJusticeCoalition #SentencingReform #DueProcess #PrisonAccountability #CriminalLegalReform Read more about Mr. Pointer’s case: https://missouriindependent.com/2026/10/27/missouri-appeals-court-rejects-prison-math-that-turned-23-year-sentence-into-40-years/
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Posted On: November 2nd 2026, 06:25 pm
A 23-year sentence should not become a 40-year sentence because the Missouri Department of Corrections miscalculates the time someone has already served.

Seems like a no-brainer, right?

Yet Deandre Pointer had to appeal his sentence and return to court before the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals ruled in his favor. The court found that the Department of Corrections improperly calculated his sentence credits following resentencing. Despite orders for his sentences to run concurrently, the department pushed his projected release date from 2024 to 2044. A 20-year miscalculation.

Cases like this show how difficult sentencing practices and laws can be to understand. Rules governing sentence credits, concurrent and consecutive sentences, and release eligibility are often overly complicated. For incarcerated people and their families, errors can have life-changing consequences.

Missouri has also recently enacted additional sentencing measures, adding complexity to an already difficult system. As these laws expand, transparency in how sentences are imposed, calculated, and served becomes even more important.

People should not have to spend additional years incarcerated fighting government agencies to enforce their legal rights.

Missouri must move away from increasingly complex and punitive sentencing practices toward human dignity, fairness, and decarceration. Accountability means challenging practices that keep people incarcerated beyond their sentences, expanding pathways home, and recognizing that justice cannot be measured by time behind bars.

#MOJusticeCoalition #SentencingReform #DueProcess #PrisonAccountability #CriminalLegalReform

Read more about Mr. Pointer’s case:
https://missouriindependent.com/2026/10/27/missouri-appeals-court-rejects-prison-math-that-turned-23-year-sentence-into-40-years/

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