Chelsea Manning sentenced to solitary confinement after suicide attempt
Source: Salon
The U.S. military finally announced that it would grant Chelsea Manning gender reassignment surgery after a weeklong hunger strike, but not before the whistleblower is also punished for her attempted suicide attempt earlier this summer.
Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence at the US Army’s Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas, was convicted on two of three additional charges in a disciplinary hearing Thursday. According to Manning, a prison disciplinary board sentenced her to 14 days in solitary confinement following an attempt to kill herself in July.
Manning, who has spent the last five years in prison for for leaking thousands of sensitive military documents to Wikileaks while working as an army intelligence analyst, was found guilty of a “conduct which threatens” charge.
As Vice explained, army policy prohibits inmates from resisting, impeding or interfering with officers who are deployed in the event that an inmate needs to be forcibly removed from their cell. Because the “force cell remove team” were called in after she was discovered unconscious in her unit, Manning’s suicide attempt was seen by the army as an act of resistance or interference, a Category IV or V offense, the same as extortion, tampering with locks, arson, or possession of drugs.
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