reality winner
The former government contractor was sentenced to five years for leaking information about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Reality Winner’s mom says her daughter caught COVID-19 behind bars while convicted former Trump aides are set free from prison during the pandemic.
Former Trump aides are out of prison during the pandemic, while the woman who leaked information about Russian election interference is still behind bars.
Reality Winner was sentenced to five years and three months behind bars in 2018 for breaching the Espionage Act.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The former NSA contractor, sentenced to five years in prison, gave her first TV interview.
Winner's sentencing is the "longest yet" for a government leaker, prosecutors said.
Winner is the first to be convicted in the Trump era for disclosing classified documents to the media.
She's expected to accept a plea deal over disclosure of a memo that gave proof of Russia's 2016 meddling in the presidential election.
Nghia Hoang Pho worked in an elite hacking unit.
On the day prosecutors say in court that the NSA contractor had written she wanted to "burn the White House down," her parents also stand by their daughter.