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Last Locked-Up Member of the MOVE 9, Chuck Africa, Is Released from Prison

HeadlineFeb 10, 2020

The last member of the MOVE 9 was released from a Pennsylvania prison Friday. Fifty-nine-year-old Chuck Sims Africa spent 41 years behind bars. Nine members of the radical, black liberation, anti-police-brutality group MOVE were convicted in the 1978 killing of Philadelphia police officer James Ramp. Since 2018, seven members have been released on parole. Two others died behind bars.

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