Chelsea Manning, a whistleblower who leaked hundreds of government documents, had her sentence commuted by Barack Obama on January, 17.

Since being convicted of leaking American documents that showed military activity around the world, Manning has served seven years of her 35-year sentence. In the past year, Manning, a transgender woman incarcerated in the Fort Leavenworth men’s military prison, has tried to kill herself twice. Manning is now going to be released on May 17, 2017, rather than the original date in 2045.

35 years is the longest sentence ever given in the U.S. for leaking government documents; most of the time, punishments for the crime are anywhere from one to three years. This sentence reflects the harshness the Obama administration has treated whistleblowers with. Edward Snowden, exposer of the NSA’s mass surveillance program and a figure many consider a hero, is still in asylum in Moscow.

Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, was in 2009 deployed to Iraq. She analyzed intelligence regarding insurgent activity, which gave her access to the classified computer network. Using her position, Ms. Manning exposed not only the abuse of detainees by Iraqi generals working with the U.S., the understatement of the official Iraq civilian causalities, and most notably an American helicopter attack that ended with two journalists from Reuters dead.

Ms. Manning has been allowed to take cross-sex hormones, but she has been prevented from growing out her hair or seeing a surgeon about a sex-change operation.

Unfortunately for Manning’s fellow whistleblower Edward Snowden, it seems as though there are no plans to grant him a pardon. On January, 18, White House Spokesperson Josh Earnest made reference to a “stark difference” between the two cases. “Chelsea Manning is someone who went through the military criminal justice process,” Earnest told the New York Times. “Mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary and has sought refuge in a country that has most recently made a concerted effort to undermine democracy.”