The New Yorker
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Why a Prison-Reform Activist Broke Into Jail—and Planted Weapons There
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March 10, 2026
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2:07Now PlayingIn 2019, officers at Nashville’s new central jail uncovered an astonishing plot: someone had been coming into the facility and hiding weapons in its infrastructure. The perpetrator was Alexander Friedmann, one of the most respected prison-reform activists in America. How—and why—did he do it?
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