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Creating Essential Community For Justice-Impacted Youth Serving Supervision Sentences

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Five Mualimm-ak

Creating Essential Community For Justice-Impacted Youth Serving Supervision Sentences

Website

incarceratednation.org

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

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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Publication

Story Corps

Five Mualimm-ak and Omar Mualimmak

By StoryCorps
July 7, 2017
StoryCorps gives people the chance to sit down together and have a conversation they’ve never had before. Five Mualimm-ak did just that with his son, Omar, who was five years old when his father was first incarcerated…
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