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.
9 Comments
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y
Damn, the balls on that lad. Glad he's fighting the good fight.
lobut@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 2y
That's a lot of time, come on man....
Glad on him for taking it on the chin.
Emi621@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y
Prison shouldn't be a punishment tho
Spzi@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
"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.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
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.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 4 pts · 2y
Next up: the UK brings back hard-labour sentences
Squeezer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Free Marcus, fuck these draconian sentences.
rimu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2y
Really interesting, thanks!
Mango@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
No I can not.