“It’s like calling 9-1-1 to report a crime, then going to jail,” Freedland said by phone earlier this month. “This just highlights the injustice of offenses we should not be punished for. Even the officers here at this prison think this is outrageous.”
Of all the injustices in the scandal-plagued U.S. prison system, this one stands out: a man penalized with a longer sentence—during which he got COVID-19 and was trapped in solitary confinement—for trying to help the feds prosecute an underage sex trafficking case.of a young, wealthy Republican operative in Minnesota last year, he confided in an old friend: a former player in the Los Angeles porn industry who was serving time in federal prison for drug dealing.
For sharing documents of his punishment with this reporter, Freedland expected further reprisal—in the form of solitary confinement in a “Special Housing Unit” by being locked away 24 hours a day in a smaller cell.Days after that call, Freedland was allegedly forced into solitary confinement, a move he called “a feckless attempt to silence me.” Freedland described his situation in a letter he apparently snuck out and had mailed to a friend.
Freedland was sentenced in 2016 to seven years in prison for having a gun while trafficking cannabis from California to Pennsylvania. But he was due to be released in December. He had hoped to spend the holidays with his family. His expected release has since been pushed back to Feb. 4. Realizing federal agents might need additional evidence, Freedland began collecting everything he knew about his former friend and business partner, like the way Lazzaro allegedly tried to use Freedland’s connections in the porn industry to hook up with young-looking girls. He also kept a list of potential witnesses, like Lazzaro’s ex-girlfriends. He claims he informed prison guards and asked to be put in touch with the FBI, but nothing came of it.
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