...Hale, who has personally rejected the “whistleblower” label, is currently incarcerated at USP Marion, a federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, where he has been held in a “Communications Management Unit” since October. Commonly known as CMUs, the highly restrictive units are ostensibly meant to house the most dangerous of individuals and by design cut off virtually all access to the outside world. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, “being sent to a CMU is uniquely stigmatizing because it is described publicly as a terrorist unit.” In October, journalist Kevin Gosztola reported that Hale is “the first person convicted for an unauthorized disclosure of information to the press to be incarcerated in a CMU.” ...

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