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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: 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.