Jeremy Hammond is a gifted young computer programmer. Right now he is facing 42 years in prison. His alleged crime? He’s accused of leaking information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, which revealed that Stratfor had been spying on activists and human rights defenders and selling that information to governments and corporations.

In March 2012 Jeremy was arrested in his Chicago home and charged with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same legislation used to prosecute Aaron Swartz. This outdated law, written before the Internet was ever created, gives absurdly broad powers to corporations and prosecutors to criminalize an array of online activity, and pursue extreme and disproportionate sentences. By contrast, Jeremy’s co-defendants in Ireland will not be prosecuted and in the UK they face far shorter sentences.

Jeremy has been denied bail, unable to see his family and held in solitary confinement– treatment normally reserved for the most egregious offenses. We are calling for prosecutors to drop these charges and for an end to aggressive CFAA prosecutions that threaten some of the country’s best and brightest young people with decades in prison.

Will you stand with Jeremy? Join us to tell prosecutors to stop threatening some of our best and brightest with decades behind bars.

"I am appalled by Jeremy Hammond's treatment by the Department of Justice including: denial of bail, excessive charges, isolation from family members, and solitary confinement. Prosecutors are using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to jail some of our best and brightest young people, with sentences normally reserved for the most egregious violent crimes. I stand with Jeremy and call on prosecutors to stop threatening him with decades in prison and to stop ruining the lives of talented young people through overzealous prosecutions."