Articles by Barrett Brown
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The Government Explains Why It Took My Email
Barrett Brown - The Intercept,
7 Dec 2015
I’ll get around to describing life in a gang-dominated medium security federal prison by and by, but right now it’s time for another update on this exciting game I’ve been playing with the BOP whereby I try to get them to restore the public email access they took from me back in March.
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Barrett Brown – The Intercept,
31 Aug 2015
Getting put back in Disciplinary Segregation was actually in some ways fortuitous, as I’m now able to make a long-overdue inspection tour of this institution’s Special Housing Unit. (I’m very much the Eleanor Roosevelt of the federal prison system.) The timing is grand, too, as the nation’s tendency to keep prisoners in these sorts of 23-hour-a-day lockdown settings for no good reason has come under a rare spate of scrutiny in recent months.
→ read full articleBarrett Brown: Locked Up – My Post Cyberpunk Indentured Servitude
Barrett Brown, The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
31 Jan 20215 – Not long ago I was a mild-mannered freelance journalist, activist, and satirist, contributing to outlets like the Guardian and Vanity Fair. But last Thursday I was sentenced to 63 months [5+ years] in federal prison. As inconvenient as this is for me, the upside is that for the first time in the two and a half years since I was arrested, I am at last able to speak freely about what has been happening to me.
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