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Julian Assange’s Potential Fate in U.S. Prisons

Loaded on Dec. 1, 2020 by Jayson Hawkins published in Prison Legal News December, 2020, page 52
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Extradition. Location: United Kingdom.

by Jayson Hawkins

As the extradition trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continued in London in September 2020, a series of witnesses were brought forth to describe the conditions Assange would face if extradited to the U.S.

Assange is under a 17-count indictment in the U.S. for violations of the ...

 

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