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where my options would presumably be either to join the Aryan Brotherhood or get beaten up every day

He's in a military prison , not Riker's Island.

That's exactly the point. There are 14,000 prisoners at Riker's Island, and many of them live in similar or worse conditions than PFC Manning.

How do prisons become HN-worthy content just because someone involved with internet drama just happens to be in the prison?