Alex Friedmann is a left-of-center prison advocate who worked for the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He is a former staff member of the advocacy group Human Rights Defense Center and began writing for its monthly publication, Prison Legal News, while he served a prison sentence for an armed robbery he committed at age 18.

He was arrested in January 2020 for entering an unfinished Nashville prison facility disguised as a construction worker. Once in the facility, Friedmann allegedly attempted to hide firearms and tools inside for prisoners to use in an escape once the facility opened and was charged with offenses related to illegal possession of firearms by a convicted felon. 0){ let parent=divs[divs.length-1].parentNode; let footer=divs[divs.length-1]; delete divs[divs.length-1]; for (let i=2; i