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Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement

posted by LaminatorX on Friday August 14 2015, @07:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ministry-of-Love dept.

captain_nifty writes:

As reported here

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @01:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @01:25PM (#222809)

    Or transfer her to a female prison....

  • (Score: 2) by AnonymousCowardNoMore on Friday August 14 2015, @04:55PM

    by AnonymousCowardNoMore (5416) on Friday August 14 2015, @04:55PM (#222903)

    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

    by Freeman (732) on Friday August 14 2015, @06:15PM (#222935) Journal

    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

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday August 14 2015, @10:56PM (#223049) Journal

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:02AM (#223148)

        Now now, let's not be hasty: I'm sure you could come up with a list of people who desperately deserve it.