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Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private convicted of leaking national security secrets, faces a hearing Tuesday for prison infractions that could result in solitary confinement.
Manning, who was intelligence analyst Bradley Manning when arrested in 2010, is charged with disrespect of a prison officer and is accused having books and magazines including Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, among other offenses.
Noteable from the article, it is apparently "disrespect of an officer" to request a lawyer.
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QOTD:
"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Username on Friday August 14 2015, @11:10AM
Well he is a "woman" in a male prison. Probably best to segregate him in order to stop cases of rape or the spread of disease.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @11:49AM
Clearly the best way to do that is to use a form of torture. All for her protection, you see.
(Score: 2) by Username on Saturday August 15 2015, @02:10AM
It’s not torture when it saves someone’s life.
Do you think Manson would be alive today if he wasn’t in solitary?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @01:25PM
Or transfer her to a female prison....
(Score: 2) by AnonymousCowardNoMore on Friday August 14 2015, @04:55PM
Your honour, I'm a woman. Now kindly lock me up with some ladies.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday August 14 2015, @06:15PM
The problem with that, is just because she identifies as a female, doesn't mean she doesn't have the equipment of a Male.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Touché) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 14 2015, @10:56PM
That's most certainly the case here.
However, it looks like in California, at least, prisoners have better medical coverage than insurance will provide [latimes.com].
So, who knows.
Anyhoo, looks like I'll be advising some trans women I know who can't access any healthcare even with insurance to take a road trip to California and kill a few random people….
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:02AM
Now now, let's not be hasty: I'm sure you could come up with a list of people who desperately deserve it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @11:57PM
You seem very concerned. I'm sure you wouldn't mind volunteering a year or two of your life as a test case.