Chelsea Manning set for prison release next week
By Mark Hensch - 05/09/17 03:59 PM EDT
Former Army soldier Chelsea Manning will be released from prison next week, her attorneys announced Tuesday.
“For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea,” Manning said in a written statement. “I can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and finally be in the outside world.”
“Now, freedom is something that I will again experience with friends and loved ones after nearly seven years of bars and cement, of periods of solitary confinement, and of my health care and autonomy restricted, including through routinely forced haircuts,” she added.
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