Assange could crochet and play bingo in supermax prison, US prosecutor claims | latikambourke
The US government has suggested that Julian Assange would not be held in solitary confinement and would be able to crochet and play bingo if he is extradited and jailed on spying charges.
Psychiatrist, Michael Kopelman, emeritus professor of neuropsychiatry at King's College London, has previously told the court that if Assange iBut Seena Fazel, a professor in forensic psychiatry at Oxford University, who interviewed Assange earlier this year said that the prisoner to be "moderately depressed," an improvement on the severely depressed state he accepted Assange was in as recently as December last year.
On Tuesday the court was told that Assange has made preparations for death, including writing farewell letters, receiving absolution from a Catholic priest and preparing a will. Lewis said inmates "may participate in a weekly bingo game". However, he prefaced his description of Assange's potential prison conditions by saying that all might not apply to the Australian.
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