You’ll be able to watch Jake Tapper’s unique interview with Trevor Reed in a CNN Particular Report: “Lastly House: The Trevor Reed Interview,” on CNN and CNN Worldwide on Sunday, Could 22, at 8 p.m. ET.

“The psychiatric remedy facility, I used to be in there with seven different prisoners in a cell. All of them had extreme, psychological well being points — most of ’em. So over 50% of them in that cell had been in there for homicide. Or, like, a number of murders, sexual assault and homicide — simply actually disturbed people,” Reed advised CNN’s Jake Tapper in a newly launched clip from the upcoming CNN Particular Report, “Lastly House: The Trevor Reed Interview,” which airs Sunday evening.

“And inside that cell, you recognize, that was not a great place,” he added.

“There was blood all around the partitions there — the place prisoners had killed themselves, or killed different prisoners, or tried to do this,” Reed continued. “The bathroom’s only a gap within the ground. And there is, you recognize, crap in every single place, all around the ground, on the partitions. There’s individuals in there additionally that stroll round that appear like zombies.”

Within the clip, which aired on CNN’s “New Day” Friday morning, Reed mentioned he didn’t sleep for a few days out of concern of what the individuals in his cell may do to him.

“You felt they could kill you?” Tapper requested, to which Reed replied: “Sure. I assumed that was a risk.”

Reed mentioned he believed he was despatched to the ability as a punishment for his continued push to attraction his conviction. His return to the USA late final month ended a virtually three-year ordeal.

The previous US Marine was sentenced to 9 years in jail in July 2020 after being accused of endangering the “life and well being” of Russian law enforcement officials in an altercation the earlier yr. Reed and his household have denied the fees towards him.

Finally, Reed was returned to the US as a part of a prisoner swap in alternate for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian smuggler convicted of conspiring to import cocaine. The US commuted his sentence.

Behind the scenes, officers each inside and outdoors the US authorities had for years been working to get Reed launched. Final month’s swap, one administration official advised CNN, was the fruits of “months and months of arduous cautious work throughout the US authorities” that befell towards the backdrop of rising tensions between Washington and Moscow — exacerbated dramatically by Russia’s brutal battle on Ukraine.

It was the mixture of things round Reed’s case — together with the pressing want to handle his deteriorating well being in jail, his household’s constant activism which led to a gathering with Biden, and the state of affairs in Ukraine — that led Biden to authorize the swap for Yaroshenko, a supply advised CNN final month.

‘I would not let myself hope’

Reed advised Tapper that he felt like he would by no means return to the US, saying he did not have confidence that he would ever get out of the Russian jail.

“And lots of people usually are not going to love what I am gonna say about this, however I form of considered their — having hope as being a weak spot,” he mentioned. So I didn’t wanna have that hope of, like, me, you recognize, being launched by some means after which have that taken from me.”

“You denied your self hope?” Tapper requested.

“Yeah,” Reed mentioned. “I would not let myself hope.”

However Reed’s family members within the US held onto their hope all through his imprisonment.

Reed’s household are the one family members of a detainee held in Russia to have met with President Joe Biden to make their case. And so they say that assembly was essential to bringing Reed residence.

“We imagine that that assembly with the President is what made it occur,” Joey Reed, Trevor’s father, mentioned final month. Trevor’s mom, Paula, additionally known as the assembly “a tipping level.”

Reed and his household have vowed to proceed their activism and battle for Individuals unlawfully detained overseas.

Two different Individuals, Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner, stay detained in Russia.

A senior administration official advised CNN final month that they don’t essentially see Reed’s profitable repatriation as translating to momentum for Whelan’s and Griner’s circumstances, however mentioned the US authorities will proceed to press for his or her launch, and the channel for potential swaps will stay open.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Griner’s spouse, Cherelle Griner, on Saturday.

In response to a senior State Division official, the highest US diplomat relayed that Griner’s launch is a prime precedence for the division and has his full consideration.

Griner’s household, in an announcement obtained by CNN, mentioned they’re “grateful for the time Secretary Blinken took on his current name with Cherelle and sit up for her face-to-face assembly with the President.”

CLARIFICATION: This story has been up to date to mirror that Trevor Reed’s dad and mom are the one family members of a detainee held by Russia to have met with President Joe Biden.

CNN’s Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.