WSJ Reporter on Life After 16 Months in Russia’s Prisons

You had your freedom taken away from you for 16 months. Was there anything once you got your freedom back that surprised you? >> Yeah. That I wanted to go back at first after you're used to that kind of life. You get back here and it's also overwhelming that the first instinct of a former prisoner seems to be the safety and security of what they know. That was really surprising. but also how quickly you all you come back to normal. I mean, not sort of psychologically that takes time, but just sort of being in the in the world because I would joke with my, you know, I didn't joke. I was serious with my lawyers that I would, you know, I would continue meditating and I wouldn't be on social media and I would, you know, prison's been good for this and that reason. And they would laugh and say, "No, everybody's back on their phone in an hour." >> Were you? >> I mean, not in an hour, but really quickly.