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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2016, @08:14PM
Often I see your comments and roll my eyes. Today I will answer, even if for nothing but to try to train my rhetorical skills in defeating your kind of fascist reasoning. It seems it is getting useful these days. Ironic.
Response to 1: What does the USA being great, have to do with executions? Executions are typical of an unstable society, whether rightly or wrongly unstable. Perhaps you would like the "strange fruits" to come back from the time USA was great. I think there are some crimes that deserve life in prison but treason is such a vague term. I would prefer the justice system would pin responsibility for each of the damages his treason did then all out slap a treasonous charge.
Response to 2: Right there was a fallacy (can't remember the name): Exaggerate and ridicule based on your exaggeration. I also think he is mentally ill and should be in a mental hospital instead of in a prison. Nevertheless, you imply there is no bound, there is: The state should not put him in a hole for trying to kill himself and the state should treat or ameliorate his mental illness while in custody. He is in state custody. It probably would take away the sex change and the suicide attempt problems out of the way. Of course your murderous solution also would solve the problems, but such modus operandi is again, characteristic of an unstable society, which most of the USA citizens still do not seem to want.
Response to 3: Well, the USA still somewhat follows the rule of law. When "America was great" they did too. The whole system of who decides on that is governed by rules that trickle down from the constitution down to the... Laws of the land produced by the congress and the senate, which are followed by the executive branch, who probably decided on this matter accordingly. When they don't the judicial system, corrects it. Again, when "America was great" it was the same system. I don't believe you are old enough to have lived in the time when the Senate was elected by the states, which was the only significant constitutional amendment the USA had in terms of structure. As a side note I believe that system was good: the original writers of the constitution knew it well.
Response to 4: Why did you read and wrote a comment to it then?