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.
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!
