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Creating Essential Community For Justice-Impacted Youth Serving Supervision Sentences
Portrait of Five Mualimm-ak

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Five Mualimm-ak

Creating Essential Community For Justice-Impacted Youth Serving Supervision Sentences
Portrait of Five Mualimm-ak

Website

incarceratednationnetwork.com

Year

2021

Organization

Incarcerated Nation

Sector

Human Rights

Borough

Bronx

Mr. Mualimm-ak, after 12 years incarcerated, leads Youth Anti Prison Project (YAPP), offering safe spaces and support for Bronx youth reentering society.

Having spent 12 years incarcerated, Mr. Mualimm-ak is intimately familiar with the criminal justice system. He knows what it is to land in solitary as punishment for having a pencil (it’s hard to be an artist when drawing tools get classed as weapons…
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52%
of people released from NYS prisons are sent directly to shelters
40%
of all jail sentences in NY are for technical parole violations, like missing a curfew

Publication

The New School

My Art Got Me Through My Time: Portraits from Solitary Confinement

By Five Mualimm-ak
October 30, 2019
I have served over 40,000 hours in isolation at the New York City corrections facility on Rikers Island and in State prison facilities in Upstate New York. During my time in solitary confinement, I produced many portraits…
Pencil drawing of a girl

Publication

Prism

Activist Five Mualimm-ak wins NYC’s David Prize for work serving youth in the juvenile justice system

By Tamar Sarai
October 21, 2021
Since Incarcerated Nation Network founder and executive director Five Mualimm-ak returned home from prison in 2012, his mission has been to advocate for formerly and currently incarcerated people and change the system he came…
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