Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Alan Gross has reached his breaking point while serving a 15-year sentence in a Cuban prison, his wife told CNN. "He's not going to make it. He's going to do something drastic. I believe him when he tells me that," Judy Gross said Wednesday. Gross, 65, was arrested in 2009 for bringing banned satellite communications equipment to the island. A State Department subcontractor, Gross had traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. government-financed project to help Cubans skirt their government's tight control of the Internet. Gross said he wasn't aware that he had violated the island's laws.
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Alan Gross' wife, Judy, visits husband in Cuba a week after his mother's death
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Gross is serving a 15-year sentence for bringing satellite equipment to island
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Subcontractor's condition this week is the worst she has seen
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