(C) Common Dreams
This story was originally published by Common Dreams and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .



Reality Winner, Who Leaked Government Secrets, Is Released From Prison [1]

['Julian E. Barnes']

Date: 2021-06-14

WASHINGTON — Reality L. Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor who was the first person prosecuted during the Trump administration on charges of leaking classified information, has been released to a halfway house, her lawyer announced on Monday.

Ms. Winner’s case was the subject of an intense public campaign to win her a pardon or clemency. But it was her good behavior in prison, not the outside advocacy or a compassionate release process, that shortened her 63-month sentence, her lawyer said.

While her good-behavior release was not unusual, her lawyer, Alison Grinter Allen, said she and Ms. Winner’s family were worried that the government would find a reason to extend her prison stay.

“When we knew release was imminent, there were a lot of anxieties that it would be denied to her,” Ms. Allen said in an interview.

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/us/politics/reality-winner-is-released.html

Published and (C) by Common Dreams
Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0..

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/commondreams/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.