Reality Winner, the former NSA contractor accused of leaking classified documents, is seeking her release from jail before her case goes to trial.
Winner, 25, has been remanded in Lincoln County Law Enforcement Center in Georgia, after it was decided that she was too much of a flight risk to be allowed out on bail during her arraignment on June 9.
She was charged with ‘willful retention and transmission of national defense information,’ after allegedly leaking documents about Russian hacks on the US presidential election to a media company.
Reality Winner, the former NSA contractor accused of leaking classified documents, is seeking release from jail before her case goes to trial (Pictured in June)
On Sunday, Winner and her mother Billie Jean Winner-Davis, both submitted letters to the court asking for her release.
In her plea, Reality states she has ‘great respect for the United States of America,’ having turned down a full engineering scholarship at the University of Texas A&M to serve in the Air Force for six years.
As a self-proclaimed vegan who eats Kosher, Winner revealed in her letter that she has ‘suffered health problems’ and is taking medication to aid in her digestion of prison food.
The former Airwoman, who served as a linguist fluent in Farsi and Arabic, also made note of her active lifestyle, stating she intends to continue to teach yoga and spinning class if she is released.
In June, she was photographed practicing yoga and doing exercises in the prison yard.
If released, she has agreed to ‘not possess any electronic device capable of accessing the internet,’ and to avoid communication with ‘any media outlet.’
Winner, (pictured with her mother Billie Jean) 25, a former NSA contractor and former member of the Air Force was charged with willful retention and transmission of national defense information,’ after allegedly leaking documents about Russian hacks on the US presidential election to a media company
If released, Winner has agreed to live under the custody of a ‘third-party custodian’ and give up using electronic devices with access to the internet. As a vegan who eats Kosher, she has also revealed she has ‘suffered health problems’ from eating prison food
Winner has also agreed to ‘reside in her home in Augusta, Georgia, with a third-party custodian – which her mother has agreed to serve as – not travel beyond Richmond County without permission, and have regular contact with her Pretrial Services Officer.
In a separate letter, Billie Jean Winner-Davis told the court she has retired early in order to relocate to Augusta to live with her daughter and is willing to post her and her husband’s Texas home as bond for Reality’s release. The home is valued at $135,000.
Winner is scheduled to ask for her release during a hearing in Augusta on Friday morning.
She could potentially spend an extended amount of time behind bars as her trial date was set to October 23, but was postponed to March 19, according to The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Winner faces up to ten years in prison, $250,000 in fines and three years of supervised release.
