International Law

The Telegraph reports that Hollywood scriptwriter and director Roger Avary is tweeting from prison while he is serving time for manslaughter:

Roger Avary, who received an Academy Award for Pulp Fiction, is posting daily tweets with grim, sometimes poignant tales of prison life.

Avary was sentenced to serve a year behind bars in October after admitting causing a car crash that killed his passenger and injured his wife.

Since then the @avary account on Twitter has been updated more than 20 times with tweets apparently chronicling his days inside Ventura County Jail in California.

While the authenticity of the account has not been verified, a friend and former colleague Neil Gaiman recently posted a tweet identifying the tweeter as the incarcerated Avary. He wrote: "It's riveting, horrible strange. Jail in 140 character lumps."

Avary's tweets, if genuine, point to a grinding prison regime enlivened by occasional crises.

Here are some of his tweets:

You can follow his stream here.