Attorney: Manning not receiving hormone therapy

[MADem]

33. I am saying that she isn't suicidal, she's not being segregated for her

protection (Leavenworth is a No-Drama correctional facility; it's a very different vibe from "pre-trial confinement" where people will act out, once they've been sentenced they know that they start to accrue a "report card" and it's in their interest to not get demerits), and she wouldn't be separated from the rest for misconduct--she would be segregated because the military would regard her as a male, because that is what the paperwork says, and once she starts the hormone therapy, that could be problematic for the other males in the dorm--that's why they won't leave her there. Because she's still a male on paper, she's not going in the female dorms. It's just not going to happen. She's stuck between two genders, for purposes of the military, anyway.

So, she will be placed, cruelly, with no medical reason such as suicidal ideation, into an environment where she has limited exposure to other people--unless a boatload of prisoners who are in her same situation suddenly appear at the facility. How likely is that, though?

Her lawyer should be pushing for a minimum security facility, something like the place where Martha Stewart did her time. That would probably work out well all around.