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August 26, 2014

Environmentalist Daniel McGowan Sues over Arrest for Writing Article 
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Environmental activist Daniel Mc Gowan has filed a lawsuit against the
U.S. Bureau of Prisons for jailing him in solitary confinement after he
wrote an article about his earlier imprisonment. Mc Gowan spent more
than five years in prison for arson as a member of the Earth Liberation
Front. For part of his term, he was held in the prison's highly
restrictive Communications Management Unit, or CMU. After his release to
a halfway house in 2012, Mc Gowan wrote an article for the Huffington
Post about how documents proved he was held in the CMU in retaliation
for his political speech. Three days after the article came out, Mc
Gowan was again taken into custody, and told he would be returned to a
CMU. He was released the next day after federal authorities were
notified they had arrested him under a regulation declared
unconstitutional. Mc Gowan's attorney told the Huffington Post,
"Communication management units are wrong now, they were wrong then, and
trying to tell that to the world should not get you thrown back in
prison."

 

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