they told him they were going to fit him with an ankle monitor and let him serve out his sentence at home. and they shackled him and brought him back to prison because they said he had broken the rule when you re out on home confinement. it turns out what he had done is written a book critical of then president donald trump and started talking publicly on social media about the forthcoming publication of that book. the problem as i laid it out is that s not actually against the rules for people who are out on home confinement. it appears, did, and this is contested, it appears under the trump administration, prison officials drafted a special rule just for michael co ken that
monitor and serve out the rest of his sentence at home but a few weeks into it, changed their minds, and without warning, shackled him and sent him back to prison because he broke the rules, they say of what you re allowed to do while on home confinement. what is the rule he had broken to get himself thrown back in federal prison? turns out, what he had done, is wrote a book critical of then president donald trump and speaking on social media of the forthcoming publication of that book. the problem with that scenario as i just laid out is that s not actually against the rules. for people out on home confinement, like he was in that moment. it appears, and this is contested, but it appears, that under the trump administration, federal prison officials drafted a special rule just for michael
home confinement and decided even though he had only been home a couple of weeks, they d send him right back to prison. sure he d been released because of covid like other prisoners, told him he would wear ankle monitor and serve out the rest of his sentence at home but a few weeks into it, changed their minds, and without warning, shackled him and sent him back to prison because he broke the rules, they say of what you re allowed to do while on home confinement. what is the rule he had broken to get himself thrown back in federal prison? turns out, what he had done, is wrote a book critical of then president donald trump and speaking on social media of the forthcoming publication of that book. the problem with that scenario as i just laid out is that s not actually against the rules. for people out on home confinement, like he was in that