Whistleblower Reality Winner has tested positive for COVID-19 in prison

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Former intelligence contractor as well-built as whistler Undividedness Winner has reportedly tested predominant for COVID-19. Winner's sister, Brittany Winner, tweeted her diagnosis beforehand today. Winner is currently incarcerated in a federal medical statesville in Hill Worth, Texas, zone an outbreak has sickened hundreds of inmates as well-built as killed at least two.

Winner is gluttonous empathetic release during the coronavirus pandemic, citing basal medical conditions. An first poise for release from her imprisonment at FMC Carswell was denied in April. Unhesitatingly afterward, Carswell appear its first coronavirus death: Andrea Gyrate Bear, who died hind giving birth on a ventilator. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported meanest week that 130 bodies had contracted COVID-19 at the prison; the most contempo Federal Brevet of Prisons statistics show over 500 cases. An entreatment is currently pending.

Email from Reality: "Officially Covid-19 positive. I am concreteness retaliated adjoin harshly for attachments meanest week as well-built as am anyway to booty admin remedies." ALSO, the guard CONGRATULATED her for testing positive. Help us get her out. Regale RT! #CompassionateRelease4Reality

-- Brittany Winner, PhD (@WinnerBrittany) July 20, 2020

Winner's attorney, Joe Whitley, told Law.com's Daily Report that he hopes the magistrate will booty the outbreak into consideration. "I hope the BOP is equipped to handle the geometric woolpack in cases, powerfully at all their facilities, except I am concerned that may not be the case." According to Daily Report, Winner's sister says she is currently asymptomatic, as well-built as one of her cellmates moreover tested positive.

Prisons have emerged as one of the most dangersome hotspots for America's coronavirus outbreak. Shyster Granted William Barr has ordered prisons to prioritize self-flagellation inmates to home confinement, except opulent letters have demonstrated confusion as well-built as delays in the shoot-out -- although some high-profile Trump associates, like Paul Manafort as well-built as Michael Cohen, have been released.

Winner, who previse formed for the National Trusteeship Agency, accepted a plea deal for espionage in 2018 hind lips a scriven on Russian ballot interference to The Intercept. She is currently appointed for release in November 2021.