Write a blog post, go to jail?

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NEW YORK -- The federal government on Thursday jailed Earth Liberation Front activist Daniel McGowan in response to an article he wrote for The Huffington Post, his wife Jenny Synan said. The HuffPost story, which was published April 1, charged the Federal Bureau of Prisons, citing documents McGowan had obtained, with transferring him to a high security prison unit in order to restrict his political speech during his incarceration.

Synan told HuffPost that she asked a BOP official why her husband had been re-imprisoned after his release to a halfway house in December. She said the official told her that the HuffPost article violated a term of his release that restricted him from interacting with the media.

Synan expects the BOP to keep her husband locked up until the official end of his seven-year sentence in June. His 38th birthday, she said, is next month. "We were thinking, 'Oh my God, first birthday home!'"

McGowan's attorney, Rachel Meeropol of the Center for Constitutional Rights, confirmed that McGowan was taken from a Brooklyn halfway house Thursday morning and brought to the Metropolitan Detention Center. She said she believed but had not yet confirmed that McGowan's jailing was connected to his recent blog post.

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UPDATE: Friday, April 5 -- Daniel McGowan has been returned to his halfway house after his lawyers confirmed that he had been jailed for his HuffPost blog. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/daniel-mcgowan-arrested_n_3016885.html

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1. I don't agree that media restrictions should be terms of release

But if they are, you should probably stick to the terms of your release. If the parole board says they'll re-imprison you for eating cherry lollipops, it's probably a good idea not to eat cherry lollipops.

[NightWatcher]

2. Activist Rod Coronado was sentanced to prison after giving a speech telling what he did

even after he had served time for the act. He was an activist for ALF who conspired to set a fire. He did time for the fire and did additional time for talking about it a few years later.

Have you read Green Is The New Red? its about the crackdown on environmental activists who get more heat and do more time than any other group in the US.

[Newest Reality]

3. At least the case

brings more attention to, and awareness of, Communication Management Units.