‘You can be happy in prison’: climate protester reflects on punishment
Last year, Morgan Trowland was one of two Just Stop Oil protesters sentenced to more than two and a half years in prison for scaling the Dartford crossing.
The sentences handed down to Trowland and Marcus Decker are the longest sentences yet given to non-violent protesters in the UK. Now, after his release on licence last month, Trowland says the 13 months he spent behind bars hardly felt like punishment at all.
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Damn, the balls on that lad. Glad he's fighting the good fight.
That's a lot of time, come on man....
Glad on him for taking it on the chin.
Prison shouldn't be a punishment tho
Likely just treated it as another day at the office: imagined his situation none too different than if he were out with the rest of us wage slaves, and realized: it's prisons all the way down.
"It's fine, the bars are meant to separate good from bad people"
--- Thoreau (analogously)
Sorry for the bite, just spelling out what it implies for me: It invites everyone to ponder why you are on the other side and what you are doing with that privilege.
Next up: the UK brings back hard-labour sentences
Free Marcus, fuck these draconian sentences.
Really interesting, thanks!
No I can not.