Andre Knights is not asking to walk away from responsibility. He is asking to survive it. On October 10, 2025, Andre was convicted in Forsyth County of fleeing and eluding and possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to one year and ten days in confinement, followed by five years of probation. At sentencing, the court did not receive critical medical evidence. That omission was not Andre’s doing, and it changed everything. Andre is living with end-stage renal disease, congestive heart failure, and stage-four hypertension. He requires dialysis three times a week to stay alive. While in custody, the Georgia Department of Corrections failed to properly prepare his dialysis treatment. The result was a medical emergency and a week-long hospitalization. This was not a fluke. It exposed a system that cannot reliably meet his medical needs. Andre’s doctors have been clear. His treating nephrologist and primary care physician have documented that continued incarceration places his life in danger. Andre is currently on the kidney transplant list. He needs specialized, consistent medical care. His facility cannot provide it. That leaves two unavoidable truths. Keeping Andre incarcerated creates a serious and unjustifiable risk of death. Keeping him incarcerated also places an extraordinary and unnecessary medical burden on the State, one that could be avoided through supervised alternatives. Andre is not denying accountability. He is asking for a humane, medically appropriate alternative that allows punishment and supervision without turning a sentence into a death sentence. He has asked the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider options the law already allows: home confinement, supervised home detention, medical parole, or another parole-based conditional release appropriate to his condition. There is more at stake than Andre alone. His fiancée is two months pregnant with their second child. Andre is the primary financial and emotional support for his family. His continued incarceration destabilizes them, while his medical condition makes confinement potentially fatal. Andre has offered full compliance. Electronic monitoring. Strict supervision. Medical reporting. Probation conditions. Whatever is required. This is not a request for convenience. It is a request for survival. This case raises a simple question with heavy consequences. What public safety purpose is served by keeping a critically ill man in a facility that cannot keep him alive? Andre Knights’ story is not about avoiding punishment. It is about whether the system will recognize when punishment crosses the line into irreversible harm.
Faces of Injustice: Andre Knights
Andre Knights is not asking to walk away from responsibility. He is asking to survive it.
On October 10, 2025, Andre was convicted in Forsyth County of fleeing and eluding and possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to one year and ten days in confinement, followed by five years of probation. At sentencing, the court did not receive critical medical evidence. That omission was not Andre’s doing, and it changed everything.
Andre is living with end-stage renal disease, congestive heart failure, and stage-four hypertension. He requires dialysis three times a week to stay alive. While in custody, the Georgia Department of Corrections failed to properly prepare his dialysis treatment. The result was a medical emergency and a week-long hospitalization. This was not a fluke. It exposed a system that cannot reliably meet his medical needs.
Andre’s doctors have been clear. His treating nephrologist and primary care physician have documented that continued incarceration places his life in danger. Andre is currently on the kidney transplant list. He needs specialized, consistent medical care. His facility cannot provide it.
That leaves two unavoidable truths.
Keeping Andre incarcerated creates a serious and unjustifiable risk of death.
Keeping him incarcerated also places an extraordinary and unnecessary medical burden on the State, one that could be avoided through supervised alternatives.
Andre is not denying accountability. He is asking for a humane, medically appropriate alternative that allows punishment and supervision without turning a sentence into a death sentence.
He has asked the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider options the law already allows: home confinement, supervised home detention, medical parole, or another parole-based conditional release appropriate to his condition.
There is more at stake than Andre alone. His fiancée is two months pregnant with their second child. Andre is the primary financial and emotional support for his family. His continued incarceration destabilizes them, while his medical condition makes confinement potentially fatal.
Andre has offered full compliance. Electronic monitoring. Strict supervision. Medical reporting. Probation conditions. Whatever is required. This is not a request for convenience. It is a request for survival.
This case raises a simple question with heavy consequences. What public safety purpose is served by keeping a critically ill man in a facility that cannot keep him alive?
Andre Knights’ story is not about avoiding punishment. It is about whether the system will recognize when punishment crosses the line into irreversible harm.