If extradited Assange is facing life in prison on espionage charges, likely at the Colorado supermax where inmates spend 23 of 24 hours a day in solitary confinement inside a small cell; however, this week the US government is trying to give "assurances" to a UK court that he "won't be held under the strictest maximum-security conditions if extradited to the US," according to new Wall Street Journal reporting on Wednesday.

n this very basis of Assange likely facing cruel confinement if extradited to US soil, a UK court previously blocked his extradition in January, but on Wednesday the UK ruled in favor of a US appeal. 

During the January ruling the judge reasoned that he would be a suicide risk based on his delicate psychological state - having spent much of the last decade of his life confined - first inside the Ecuadoran embassy in London while on the run, and since his apprehension from the embassy inside the high security Belmarsh prison.