Attorney: Chelsea Manning again attempts suicide in prison

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AP

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chelsea Manning attempted suicide for the second time in recent months while the transgender soldier remains imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information, two of her attorneys said Friday.

Attorneys Vincent Ward and Chase Strangio declined to divulge details of Manning's suicide attempt last month at a military prison at Kansas' Fort Leavenworth. Wayne Hall, an Army spokesman, said medical privacy laws barred him from discussing the matter.

But Manning's attorneys cited her prison conditions — including the solitary confinement that her legal team says she received as punishment for her July suicide attempt — as contributing to their client's fragile mental state.

Strangio, in an email to The Associated Press, called her treatment since her 2010 arrest and subsequent time serving a 35-year sentence "demoralizing and destabilizing assaults on her health and humanity."

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[msanthrope]

1. Be well, Chelsea.

I have been a harsh and vocal critic of Chelsea Manning from day one on DU. And yet I do not wish suicidal depression and ideation on anyone.

[shenmue]

3. Indeed

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. She breaks my heart. What happened to her is so wrong.

[elleng]

4. This more than the miserable election situation

grieves me about this country.

[Metric System]

6. Solitary confinement for a suicide attempt is inhumane.

[elleng]

7. Yes, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons should sure as hell know it!

[awoke_in_2003]

12. They likely do...

and don't give a damn. Never attribute to ignorance what pure cruelty can explain (especially when it comes to law enforcement in this country)

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

11. Her treatment has been horrific. And to punish someone

for a suicide attempt should be against every law in the world. This makes me so angry I'm getting a severe headache, and I am fortunate in that I have had about three actual headaches in my entire life.