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AL: Group of formerly incarcerated people visit area, organize to turn around direction of prison system

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Group of formerly incarcerated people visit area, discuss prison reform By Scott Johnson ? March 3, 2011 Montgomery, AL They have turned around their own lives, and now they want to turn around the di­rection of the U.S. prison sys­tem. That is part of the message being presented by a group of formerly incarcerated people from across the country that employs the slogan "serving our country after serving our time." Dubbed the Formerly In­carcerated & Convicted Peo­ple Movement, the group met Monday through Wednesday in Montgomery and Selma. It is the first time the group has gathered in one location, and the choice of Montgom­ery and Selma was no acci­dent. "It is like our path was cut in the civil rights movement, and we are just bringing it back where it started," said Dorsey Nunn, a rights advo­cate and former inmate from San Francisco who helped organize the meeting...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).