The Political Imprisonment of Lucy Connolly: A Modern British Tragedy

Imagine, if you will, a quiet town in England, a mother tending to children not her own, wiping noses and tears with the same grace. Now imagine that same mother, shackled by the state, imprisoned not for a violent crime, but for words. Not in Stalin's Russia. In today's United Kingdom.

Lucy Connolly sits in a prison cell, not because she harmed someone,…