I imagine there were probably more terms to this agreement (maybe in both directions) that aren't going to be released publicly ever, so it's impossible to really judge it. I'm glad we'll go to the ends of the Earth to get back American political prisoners held unjustly abroad, but I do hope the pot was sweetened a bit.
LOL. She is a dumb pothead who hates America, not a "political prisoner".
Regardless of whether or not that's true, none of this would have happened without the tensions between Russia and the USA caused by Putin's invasion of Ukraine's. If both Russia and the USA view her as a political prisoner, she was a political prisoner.