This was a slogan during the resistance to the US War in VietNam: Military justice is to justice as military music is to music. We all recognized rigidity, reactionary, out-of-date definitions corrupting any sense of being modern or useful.
The song remains the same. Chelsea Manning faces solitary confinement for having the Jenner Vanity Fair issue in her cell.
Chelsea Manning, the US army soldier serving a 35-year military prison sentence for leaking official secrets, has been threatened with indefinite solitary confinement for having an expired tube of toothpaste in her cell and being found in possession of the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair issue…
Manning, a Guardian columnist who writes about global affairs, intelligence issues and transgender rights from prison in the brig of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has allegedly been charged with four violations of custody rules that her lawyers have denounced as absurd and a form of harassment. The army private is reportedly accused of having showed “disrespect”; of having displayed “disorderly conduct” by sweeping food onto the floor during dinner chow; of having kept “prohibited property” – that is books and magazines – in her cell; and of having committing “medicine misuse”, referring to the tube of toothpaste, according to Manning’s supporters.
The maximum punishment for such offences is an indeterminate amount of time in a solitary confinement cell.
The fourth charge, “medicine misuse”, follows an inspection of Manning’s cell on 9 July during which a tube of anti-cavity toothpaste was found. The prison authorities noted that Manning was entitled to have the toothpaste in her cell, but is penalizing her because it was “past its expiration date of 9 April 2015”.
The “prohibited property” charge relates to a number of books and magazines that were found in her cell and confiscated. They included the memoir I Am Malala by Nobel peace prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, a novel featuring trans women called A Safe Girl to Love, the LGBT publication Out Magazine, the Caitlyn Jenner issue of Vanity Fair and a copy of Cosmopolitan that included an interview with Manning.
Also confiscated was the US Senate report on torture. It is not clear why any of these publications were considered violations of prison rules – a request by the Guardian to the army public affairs team for an explanation of the charges received no immediate response.
RTFA for more details of the crap we expect from the United States. Not just for political prisoners, of course. If you try to learn and think, perhaps voice some level of dissent from the Dark Ages mentality of most American jailers – you’re in trouble.
Eideard 
These are some of the reasons US prisoners wind up in solitary confinement http://qz.com/480015/these-are-some-of-the-reasons-us-prisoners-wind-up-in-solitary-confinement/ “The practice of keeping inmates in Special Housing Units (SHU) in both US federal and state prisons has been under scrutiny for the dangers it poses to inmates, particularly from a mental health perspective. However, in the US solitary confinement is inflicted upon at least 80,000 inmates, including juveniles, often for months or years.
As the Manning case brought to light, SHU can be applied rather arbitrarily and for seemingly minor infractions. Since it is administered as a disciplinary measure, its application is left to the discretion of the prison staff, and often open to misuse.”
August 19th: Imprisoned Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been spared the punishment of indefinite solitary confinement after more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling on military prison authorities to drop the charges of possession of unauthorized reading material and other minor infractions. Amy Goodman’s Aug 18th interview of Chase Strangio, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of Manning’s legal team, @ http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/18/as_chelsea_manning_speaks_out_on