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‘You can be happy in prison’: climate protester reflects on punishment (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

"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.

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