A county clerk, sentenced to nearly ten years in prison for promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, claims she was placed in solitary confinement in Colorado after voicing grievances about her treatment by correctional officers.

Tina Peters, as reported by Law&Crime, faced conviction in August 2024 for orchestrating a security breach by allowing unauthorized access to voting machines during her tenure as a Mesa County clerk.

Prosecutors revealed that Peters, along with her deputy clerk Belinda Knisley, engaged in tampering with election equipment and committed official misconduct. They facilitated an unauthorized individual in making copies of voting machine hard drives in 2021, both prior to and following a “trusted build” systems upgrade in May of that year.

Both Peters and Knisley persistently asserted that President Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election, alleging that the voting machines were manipulated to favor Joe Biden.

In October 2024, following an extensive hearing where Peters remained unyielding and upheld her theories, she received a nine-year state prison sentence for her felony actions.

Now, Peters’ lawyer says her health is “deteriorating markedly,” especially since being thrown into solitary confinement, according to a report by local Fox affiliate KDVR.

Peters filed a grievance against a corrections officer after she asked the officer not to discuss her case during a GED class, according to court documents cited by KDVR. According to that report, another inmate screamed at Peters when she asked for her case not to be discussed, and that inmate allegedly followed Peters to her unit while yelling at her.

A handwritten document Peters gave to her attorney reportedly cites the written grievance against the officer as the key factor that led to her solitary confinement.

Peters’ lawyer also says that her clients other ailments include a cough, constant pain in her neck, back and hips, sleep deprivation, cognitive decline, and a possible recurrence of lung cancer, according to KDVR. She has requested Peters be released immediately.

The Trump administration has taken an interest in Peters’ incarceration in what prosecutors in Colorado have called a “wholly inappropriate” and “grotesque” attempt to “weaponize the rule of law.”

Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Prisons asked Colorado officials to transfer Peters into federal custody.