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He wasn't writing to Birgingham jail, he was writing from the Birmingham jail, where he was being detained at the time, to his "fellow clergymen" of Alabama.

To straight out answer your question, he was in Birmingham jail when he wrote the letter in question (it's called "Letter From a Birmingham Jail")

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