Five Mualimm-ak was released in 2012 from New York State prison, where he spent five years in solitary confinement. He is Founder and Director of the Incarcerated Nation Campaign and a core member of the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement, the New York City Jails Action Coalition, and the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow. Mualimm-ak often travels to community centers, colleges, universities, and houses of worship to speak about the issues of solitary confinement and mass incarceration.