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Chelsea Manning will spend at least seven days in solitary confinement for attempting suicide in July:
A military prison disciplinary board has sentenced US whistleblower Chelsea Manning to fourteen days in solitary confinement, her lawyer has said. She will spend seven days in solitary confinement for charges relating to her attempt to kill herself in July. She ended a hunger strike last week, after the military agreed to provide her with gender dysmorphia treatment. The army private, born as Bradley Manning, is serving a 35-year sentence for espionage.
Last July, the former intelligence officer attempted to take her own life, after what lawyers said was the Army's refusal to provide appropriate health care. She was found guilty on Thursday by prison officials in Leavenworth, Kansas, of "Conduct Which Threatens" for her suicide attempt. She also was convicted of having "prohibited property" - the book "Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy," by Gabriella Coleman.
Earlier this month, it was announced that the US Army will grant Chelsea Manning's request for gender transition surgery.
The President of the United States and others believe that constraints must be placed on the practice of solitary confinement. Studies have found that solitary confinement leads to increased risks of self-harm.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday September 24 2016, @06:13PM
Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt
What is this I don't even
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Saturday September 24 2016, @06:23PM
So, rather than provide the necessary help required when someone is self-harming, let alone attempting the ultimate form of that, the verdict is to punish them by putting them into a situation which is more likely to make the harm? That sure sounds like some very good for grounds for cruel and usual punishment plea when Chelsea and her legal team appeal the verdict.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 25 2016, @01:35AM
They want Bradley to suffer. If they take away all of the easy ways to commit suicide and place you into a more stressful environment, then the only ways out from the intensified suffering are even more horrific methods of suicide which would be less likely to succeed but more brutal and self-harmful.
If they offer him horse tranquilizers, then he should take them. During the next presidential election some things may change and some things may not, but unless a third-party candidate pulls off a startling upset, then Bradley is gonna rot.
They don't want him to die. They want him to break, to live a life of hell. They want him a million times more defeated than Winston Smith at the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four. And as long as he's trying to stay composed and not embrace the chimpanzee life of laughing maniacally while flinging shit and semen and his prison guards, he will suffer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2016, @06:41PM
This is the USA. Exposing the crimes of others is a crime, as is trying to kill your self.
So the question is: is this sentence punishment for attempting to kill herself? I sure hope its not intended as correctional since there is evidence its counter productive in that area. Maybe its supposed to be a deterrent?
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Saturday September 24 2016, @10:09PM
> This is the USA
Thanks for pointing that out, because I could have easily believed it was 19th Century London. No snark to parent poster intended, I am literally saying that this reads like some Victorian institution. I wonder, can one pay a dollar to come and laugh at the loonies?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 25 2016, @08:02AM
It's Make America Great Again compassion. It encourages the "weak" to solve their own problems without any external interference.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday September 25 2016, @10:47AM
They should sentence her to death for attempting suicide. That'd teach her!