Independent journalist Josh Wolf has been released from prison after spending over 225 days behind bars. The 24-year-old Wolf spent more time in jail than any journalist in U.S. history for protecting his sources. He was jailed on August 1 of last year when he refused to turn over video to a federal grand jury that he had shot of a protest in San Francisco. As part of a deal with prosecutors, Wolf decided to publicly release the video. In return, prosecutors agreed not to summon him before the grand jury or ask him to identify any of the protesters shown on his video. Josh Wolf spoke yesterday at a press conference in San Francisco.

Josh Wolf: “Were I to testify, they would go through the video and go, 'Do you know that person? Do you know that person?' as new people showed on the film. Anyone that I said I knew, they would probably ask, 'How can I contact them?' Then those people would be called in and forced to watch the tape and identify everyone they knew. I am assuming everyone would also be asked incidental questions, but to me it seemed like a witch hunt, like McCarthyism, where in this case it was anarchists, before it was communists.”