Former political prisoner Eric King was released from prison on December 12, 2023, after spending nearly 10 years behind bars. Seven and a half of the ten were in solitary confinement, with five and a half being consecutive. As he walked off the Florence Federal Correctional Complex property toward a small crowd of friends and supporters, his wife and child ran up to him, embracing him tightly.

King spoke with Unicorn Riot in December 2024, reflecting on his release day a year earlier and how life in the halfway house was. On December 14, he and his wife Rochelle will be having their “free” wedding surrounded by loved ones and comrades. King and Rochelle had a no-contact wedding in 2016 behind glass while King was in prison.