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D Magazine and The Intercept report that Barrett Brown has been re-arrested:
Faced with the possibility of 100 years in prison, Brown pleaded guilty in 2014 to two charges related to obstruction of justice and threatening an FBI agent, and was sentenced to five years and 3 months. In 2016, Brown won a National Magazine Award for his scathing and often hilarious columns in The Intercept, which focused on his life in prison. He was released in November.
[...] According to his mother, who spoke with Brown by phone after his arrest, Brown believes the reason for his re-arrest was a failure to obtain "permission" to give interviews to media organizations. Several weeks ago, Brown was told by his check-in officer that he needed to fill out permission forms before giving interviews.
Since his release, Brown has given numerous interviews, on camera and by phone. But according to his mother, Brown said that the Bureau of Prisons never informed him about a paperwork requirement. When he followed up with his check-in officer, he was given a different form: a liability form for media entering prisons.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Friday April 28 2017, @06:26PM (1 child)
You sure?
He was arrested for numerous hacking charges, this is true, but his journalism behind bars is well documented. I saw a couple of articles about corruption and ham-fisted coverups in prison which had to make him extremely popular in the administration right?
So now he gives interviews that apparently have his 1st Amendment rights modified to require government permission to speak. He didn't know that, I didn't know that, and I would die before I agreed to that fucking shit. You tell me that, and I will talk until my throat bleeds because those corrupt mother fuckers in the prison system will not silence me. They will need to kill me.
You are only correct if he performed additional illegal acts *during* the interview process. Otherwise, he hasn't done jack diddly shit that is illegal and it is very much an issue of journalism being suppressed.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @07:14PM
So now he gives interviews that apparently have his 1st Amendment rights modified to require government permission to speak.
Of course they did. He was saying mean things. Blue Feelings Matter!