I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be
After my first FBI raid I started reading those little guides on life in prison that one finds online and noticed several references to role-playing games.
Barrett Brown
Barrett Brown, whose column received the 2016 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary, is the founder of Project PM, a crowd-sourced investigation into the cyber-industrial complex. In 2012, the FBI raided his house, and later that year Brown was indicted on 12 federal charges relating to the 2011 Stratfor hack. The most controversial charge, linking to the hacked data, was dropped, but in 2015 Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison. He was released to a half-way house on Nov. 29, 2016.
For more information about Brown's case, and to contribute to his legal defense fund, please visit the Free Barrett website.
For more information about Brown's case, and to contribute to his legal defense fund, please visit the Free Barrett website.
Contacts:
- @FreeBarrett_ on X
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Posts:
The Fact of Sisyphus
Partly as a consequence of my natural rambunctiousness, I’ve spent a total of five months over the past few years of incarceration being held in Special Housing Unit confinement cells, informally known as “the hole.”
Dean Rusk Also Missing, Feared Dead
Niall Ferguson proves that if you compare Henry Kissinger’s least murderous act of secret foreign intervention to John Foster Dulles’s most murderous, Kissinger comes out as less murderous.
I Do Not Care to Finish Reading This Mediocre Kissinger Biography By Niall Ferguson
In his charmless biography of Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson fails to make a dishonest argument come out in his own favor.
The Rule of Law Enforcement
Although one’s first few days at a new prison are always given over largely to errands and social obligations, I did manage to get in some much-needed reading time.
The Government Explains Why It Took My Email
Barrett Brown, writing from a new prison in Texas, attempts to decipher his overlords’ charming decrees.
Stop Sending Me Jonathan Franzen Novels
Last night The Intercept won a National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category for three pieces by Barrett Brown, including this one, on Jonathan Franzen's latest novel.
Santa Muerte, Full of Grace
My new cellmate snuck over to Dallas from Mexico when he was 15, became the leader of a gang, did a year in state prison for shooting another drug dealer with a shotgun, and worships Santa Muerte, the skeletal narco-deity beloved throughout the Mexican underworld.
A Visit to the Sweat Lodge
When I arrived at the Fort Worth Correctional Institution to serve the remainder of my sentence, the place turned out to be an unspoiled journalistic paradise of poorly concealed government corruption and ham-fisted cover-ups.