UPDATE: Rich Paul calls Porc411 to invite everyone to Keene Central Square for a Night Cap.

Thanks to Ethan Lee Vita for his first hand account of Rich Paul’s release:

We were informed Rich Paul would be released, at the earliest, at 8am Thursday August 26, 2010. There was curiousity as to whether he’d be released at midnight, beginning of the 26th, because they used to release inmates from midnight at the old Westmoreland jail. They informed us, by phone call, that he would be released at 8am. We got there before 8am and went to sit in the lobby. At 8am the lobby secretary called for them to release Rich Paul. Some other people came around 8:10. We were starting to wonder when they’d release him as we waited.

Monica went up to talk to the lady and they said he’d be coming out the door outside so we waited outside there under 5 minutes. He stepped out in a jail t-shirt he didn’t like at about 8:30am. We displayed a t-shirt we got for him that read, “I noticed that you’re gangster. I’m pretty gangster myself.” He shook Wes’s hand, mine, hugged Monica etc., calling everyone dudes or dudettes as is appropriate. I believe there were around 9 people there, including myself, Brooke Kelley, Wes Gilreath, Monica Granger, Jacqueline Lemieux, Dave Dixon, and a new guy . I handed him some money I earned him while he was in. We walked to the car where we gave him his gun and he loaded it in front of the jail.

Monica and Rich went topless walking from the jail, through 101, to Humdinger’s while we called a Porc411 to meet there. Once we realized it was closed, we showed him where we did the nightcap candlelight vigil on the side of the road. He talked about getting fireworks tonight, or if not tonight, soon, and shooting them off for people on the inside. Supposedly we have an inside man who will have envelopes and stamps ready if an activist ends up in his cell block; that way they don’t have to wait to get their own supplies.

We then walked back and agreed to meet to smoke a bowl in Central. As we were doing that, more people, Ian, Hunter, and JJ, showed up and we took him to eat at Lindy’s Diner, where Richard and Dale showed up. After that, he went to be with Monica at the movie shoot for Intense! and that was the last I saw him.