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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReality Winner tests positive for covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/nsa-whistleblower-reality-winner-positive-covid-19"Reality Winner, an NSA whistleblower imprisoned for leaking secrets about Russian interference in Americas 2016 elections, has tested positive for Covid-19 and says guards are mocking infected prisoners at FMC Carswell, the Fort Worth all-womens prison where more than 500 inmates are now confirmed positive.
The officer went out of her way to come to my room and say, I just wanted to congratulate you on your positive results. Winner wrote in an email sent early Monday to her sister Brittany.
Winner, who is serving a 63-month sentence, has repeatedly denounced inadequate cleaning and isolation practices in FMC Carswell, the US Federal governments only specialized medical prison for female prisoners with underlying health conditions.
They allowed someone positive from our unit to go to a hospital unit where dialysis and chemo patients live, starting the infection spread down there, Winner wrote on Monday."....(more)
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Reality Winner tests positive for covid-19 (Original Post)
Tanuki
Jul 2020
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She needs to be pardoned or whatever he needs to do to get her out of there on day one.
onecaliberal
Jul 2020
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OAITW r.2.0
(24,468 posts)1. Total travesty of justice.
Biden is gonna be busy, starting 1/21/21.
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)2. Tears, and...
...Release her now!
onecaliberal
(32,858 posts)3. She needs to be pardoned or whatever he needs to do to get her out of there on day one.