Sam Bankman-Fried speaks from prison about his life behind bars and his desperate campaign to get free. Donald Trump is the victim of politically motivated prosecution, he tells Simon van Zuylen-Wood, and ‘he’s not the only one.’

Sam Bankman-Fried is incarcerated at a federal prison in Lompoc, California, which sits northwest of Santa Barbara and is dubbed the City of Arts and Flowers. Once or twice a week, he calls me, and w…