- Aaron Swartz’s Unbending Prosecutors Insisted on Prison Time " Swartz faced tough U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her assistant Stephen Heymann, who rejected any deal that did not involve a prison sentence—which may have helped drive the cyber programmer to despair." http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/15/aaron-swartz-s-unbending-prosecutors-insisted-on-prison-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28the+daily+beast+-+latest+articles%29 93 comments technology