Kingsville Native Reality Winner Freed from Prison After 4 Years
KINGSVILLE - Kingsville native Reality Winner has been released according to her attorney Alison Grinter.
Reality Winner’s U.S. Air Force basic training graduation photo from 2010. (U.S. Government via Wikimedia Commons)
Winner is the former U.S. Air Force language analyst that was serving a 63-month sentence after pleading guilty to leaking classified National Security Agency information.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
A statement was posted by Winner’s attorney on Monday at her release.
"She is still in custody in the residential reentry process, but we are relieved and hopeful," Grinter said. "Her release is not a product of the pardon or compassionate release process, but rather the time earned from exemplary behavior while incarcerated."
