Civil Liberties

Imprisoned Environmental Activist Forbidden From Publishing Without Permission From Government

Daniel MacGowan, charged with terrorism and now in a halfway home, has written about being placed in experimental solitary confinement

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After more than seven years, the stack of dehumanizing and seemingly unconstitutional interactions between Daniel McGowan and the American prison system is now piled so high it is teetering over into a recursive mess of bleak and Kafkaesque absurdity.

Last Monday, McGowan published a piece on the Huffington Post that laid out much of his situation to date. After years in prison for his role in environmentally motivated property destruction that was prosecuted as acts of terrorism, he wrote, he was finishing up the remaining months of his sentence in a halfway house in Brooklyn.