She frequently spoke out about the prison's treatment of her as a transgender woman and, in September 2016, went on a hunger strike until the army agreed to provide her with gender reassignment surgery. (businessinsider.com)
Bryan himself was a champion of the common man, and had actually supported two of the ACLU's earlier campaigns against threats to individual liberty» superpatriotism during World War I and cutthroat capitalism afterward» but the Scopes Trial and the subsequent treatment of it made him anathema to most of the liberal bien pensant left. (firstthings.com)
Richard Barnes told The Buffalo News he is «very angry» about any allegations of favorable treatment of him or Sturm. (buffalonews.com)