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> including 112 days of credit for abusive treatment he was subjected to at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va.

They openly acknowledge abusive treatment, but has anyone received criminal disciplinary action over it?

112 days also seems a tad low considering what I've heard of his experience.

I'm sure there will be punishment, but that it'll be out of the courts. The last thing they want publicized is a case about American Marines mistreating a convict.

No one involved in meting out that punishment has an iota of motivation to do anything but reward him. It's a deterrent they have control over.

Why would you be sure of that? No one involved in mistreating Manning has had any charges brought against them, nor will there be.

Credit for abuse served. Maybe one could request abusive treatment and get out in half the time?

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