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Parole board grants release to Rodney Macon with strict conditions
Summary
The Louisiana Committee on Parole granted parole to Rodney Wayne Macon, 63, who was convicted as a juvenile in 1979. The panel attached multiple conditions including electronic monitoring, mental health treatment and no contact with the victim.
The Louisiana Committee on Parole voted to grant parole to Rodney Wayne Macon at a rehearing Aug. 12, 2025, subject to multiple conditions including electronic monitoring, a curfew, continued offender treatment and strict no-contact provisions.
Macon, 63, was convicted in 1980 for a crime committed when he was 16. He has been incarcerated for decades; because of later court rulings related to juvenile sentencing, he was resentenced and became eligible for parole review. At the hearing at David Wade Correctional Center the panel reviewed Macon’s institutional record, treatment completion and post-release plan.
Warden Michelle Dozat told the panel Macon has been at David Wade for about 24 years, had no recent disciplinary incidents, and completed numerous in-prison programs including offender-treatment courses and victim-awareness classes. Macon gave a prepared statement expressing remorse and asked for a chance to rejoin his sister’s household in Shreveport if released.
Clarence Samuels, a formerly incarcerated person now in the community, spoke by Zoom in support and said he and his wife would help Macon find employment and stability. The panel discussed the seriousness of the underlying crime — an attack on a teacher in 1979 — and the lasting impact on the victim, and then met briefly in executive session.
When the board returned, it voted to grant parole with conditions. The order requires mental-health treatment and medication compliance, a nightly curfew of 10 p.m.–6 a.m. enforced by electronic monitoring (exceptions for work), continued participation in *** offender treatment and anger-management classes, and an absolute no-contact order with the victim and her family. The panel also emphasized that Macon has never before been on community supervision and instructed him to cooperate closely with his parole officer.
Panel members urged Macon to obey parole conditions and complete follow-up appointments; Clarence Samuels said he would assist with community transition. The board recorded the conditions on the record and set procedures for DOC to arrange pre-release mental-health follow-up and community supervision placements.
