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TNS: When and why was the Free Alabama Movement started?

F.A.M. was started in August 2013. At that time, there were many issues plaguing the lives of the people who were incarcerated in Alabama’s prison, and it had become obvious to many of us that we would have to become directly involved in providing solutions to those problems. There were ( and still are) inhumane conditions; there is little investment in education and rehabilitation; the courts were not resolving legitimate complaints concerning wrongful convictions and sentences or inhumane conditions and treatment; the parole board and other agencies were all complicit in the operation of mass incarceration, and we had come to accept the fact that the so- called ” civil and human rights organizations either were not coming to the rescue or they, too, were exploiting mass incarceration for personal gain. F.A.M. was formed out of necessity for survival against what we know as genocide.

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