Barrett Brown, Anonymous activist and award-winning journalist, released from prison
Barrett Brown, the Dallas-born investigative journalist whose prison sentence was derided by free press advocates, was released from federal prison this week.
The 35-year-old is living in a halfway house with five drug dealers about 20 minutes south of downtown Dallas, he wrote in a post Thursday on D Magazine's website.
"We have a TV and an Xbox 360," Brown wrote. "When I came in, they were watching the 1990 Charlie Sheen vehicle Navy Seals, a film of extraordinary obnoxiousness. Further reports will follow. ... Greetings to my various enemies. Down with all human institutions."
Brown had been locked up since his 2012 arrest on charges of threatening an FBI agent and helping share stolen information from Stratfor, an Austin-based defense contractor. He pleaded guilty last year to reduced charges of making internet threats, aiding hackers and obstructing authorities from executing a search warrant.
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