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Each one is a named injustice, a theory of how to change it, and a list of roles that need filling.

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Free Willie Simmons, and end Alabama's habitual offender law

Forty-four years for nine dollars — and more than five hundred others serving life for offences that killed no one

Willie Simmons has served over forty years of a life-without-parole sentence imposed for taking $9 in 1982, under Alabama's Habitual Felony Offender Act. We are working to free him and to reach the 500-plus people serving the same sentence under the same law.

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