I am, honestly. The quote from the article was "McFarland told NBC News that during his time in prison he served two separate turns in solitary confinement: a three-month stint for sneaking a USB drive in with him containing notes for a possible tell-all book, and later a seven-month stretch for calling into a podcast about Fyre via payphone. Prison officials declined to discuss McFarland’s time in solitary. ". That's not framing the solitary as consensual.

Again, he could well be lying - that is rather what he's known for - but I can believe that he's not, and that in itself is pretty damning.

Jesus Christ, PoWs can get less solitary than that. That's all but torture - American prisons really need some proper oversight to stop this shit. If you lock someone up with no human contact for 7 months for calling into a podcast, you're on the wrong side of the bars.

With that said, might be worth taking what he says with a grain of salt, he hasn't exactly got a reputation for honest and accurate commentary. With that said, we do know that American prisons are terrible, so...