NEW: Reality Winner, the former NSA contractor who was jailed for leaking secrets about Russian hacking, has been released early from prison, her lawyer says.
, has been released early from prison, her lawyer said Monday.
"I am thrilled to announce that Reality Winner has been released from prison," Alison Grinter Allen, her lawyer, said in a statement posted on Twitter. Winner, 29, was sentenced to more than five years in prison in 2018 after she leaked classified information to The Intercept news outlet about Russia's attempts to hack the 2016 presidential election.
that detailed the Russian government's efforts to penetrate a Florida-based voting software supplier. At the time, the sentence was the longest ever for a federal crime involving leaks to the media.with the Department of Justice in February 2020, saying she had"suffered enough" and called on then-President Donald Trump to"do the right thing."
The former NSA translator was released for good behavior and is still in custody amid the “residential re-entry process,” Allen said.
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