Manning will leave prison to a U.S. more accepting of transgender identity

Record ID: 876264

  • Title: Manning will leave prison to a U.S. more accepting of transgender identity
  • Date: 16th May 2017
  • Summary: FORT MEADE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES (FILE - AUGUST 14, 2013) (REUTERS) BRADLEY MANNING ENTERING MILITARY COURT FACILITY
  • Embargoed: 30th May 2017 23:57
  • Keywords: release pardon Kansas Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth Chelsea Manning
  • Location: LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, UNITED STATES / FORT MEADE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED
  • City: LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, UNITED STATES / FORT MEADE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA0046H3B6FB
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  • Story Text: Chelsea Manning, the U.S. Army soldier responsible for a massive leak of classified material, will walk out of prison on Wednesday (May 16) after seven years to find a country that has grown more accepting of her transgender identity but less enamored with the cause that led to her incarceration.
    In 2010, the former military intelligence analyst, then known as Private First Class Bradley Manning, provided thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, an international organization that publishes such information from anonymous sources. It was the most sweeping breach of its kind in U.S. history.
    After Manning's 2013 conviction, the soldier was sentenced to 35 years in prison. But former President Barack Obama, during his final days in office, commuted the remaining 28 years on the sentence.
    After being convicted of espionage, Manning said she identified as a woman and began her transition, even as the U.S. Army kept her in the men's prison, requiring a male haircut. Her lawyer said she twice tried to commit suicide and faced long stretches of solitary confinement and denial of health care.
    Manning, 29, is likely to become a transgender advocate after her release from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, said Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented Manning.
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