The Last Prisoner Project's policy director, Adrian Rocha, urged Texas to create a way to revisit past cannabis convictions, FOX 7 Austin reported in April 2026. A figure of 283 people in state custody with a marijuana offense is cited, attributed to the state Department of Corrections; Rocha says it is likely an undercount.
Per the article, Texas relief options are clemency or serving out the sentence, with no legislative resentencing route. Virginia lawmakers passed a bill letting judges revisit certain cannabis convictions, cited as a possible model. Some law enforcement groups oppose retroactive sentence reductions.
Why it matters: The numbers are an advocate's and a state agency's, not ours, but they point to hundreds of people in Texas prisons for marijuana with no resentencing path.
Source: FOX 7 Austin, 2026-04-06. Forgotten Prisoner's account is based on this reporting.