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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: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:13AM
If you never heard of Barrett Brown, you obviously pay zero attention to the intersection between the First Amendment and how hyperlinks are an integral part of modern publishing. It's pretty shocking that you could be interested in technology and never heard of Barrett Brown.