Nation IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : Member of MOVE Freed From Prison
The woman who survived the police bombing of the Philadelphia headquarters of MOVE, the back-to-nature group, left prison in a limousine, exactly seven years after the attack that killed 11 people and destroyed 61 homes. Ramona Africa, 37, who was convicted on riot and conspiracy charges, was released from the State Correctional Institution at Muncy. Africa, who refused parole for 5 1/2 years because officials wanted her to renounce the group as a condition, vowed to seek freedom for about a dozen members who remain behind bars. Members of MOVE refused to send their children to school and disobeyed health and safety laws.
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