Occupy Wall Street activist, and now felon, Cecily McMillan, 25, was released Wednesday from Rikers Island Correctional Facility, where she served 58 days of her ninety day sentence for assaulting a police officer during an Occupy Wall Street protest in 2012. She now faces five years of probation.

A day before McMillan was released, Jezebel.com ran a story on her prison observations, including a notice that she would hold a news conference outside the prison the day she was released to discuss her experiences, which included witnessing one inmate be deprived of needed medical attention. The inmate later died.

The advance notice may explain why prison authorities had McMillan leave prison early Wednesday, driving her in a vehicle with tinted windows and dropping her off on the side of the road in Queens with just a metrocard.  She told reporters at the press conference she had no ID, a cellphone or keys.  McMillan said she was terrified.

Returning to Rikers Island to do the news conference, McMillan read a statement she said she wrote with other inmates calling for better access to health care, drug rehabilitation services and education. 

When asked  "I would say if Judge Zweibel, Cyrus Vance or Michael Bloomberg set out to make an example of me to dissaude dissent this has had the exact opposite impact. I am absolutely and further committed to fighting for rights and freedoms that I did not even realize had been eroded to the extent that they have. I will work tirelessly to make sure these women's voices reach outside of that prison system, and I feel we have finally made a real and concrete step towards effecting a true possibility of the statement 'We are the 99 percent', and uniting against the corporate takeover of our democratic state and reclaiming it for ourselves as citizens, and which they are accountable to -- or should be held accountable to."

The de Blasio administration on Wednesday tweeted via its New York City Mayor's Office account, "FACT: The FY15 budget includes $32.5 million for mental health services for inmates at Rikers Island facilities."