Once. I spoke to him once. He was absolutely batshit and wasn't at all above leveraging someone else's life in order to save his own. It's no wonder the two of you got along. And I know what happened, Ward. Part of the details, at least. SHIELD was only trying to keep her safe.
That was her choice to make, Ward! Not yours! You can't just force two people into a room together and hope for the best when only one of them wants to be there.
She wasn't that much of a threat. A low level hacker with questionable ties, you know as well as I do the worst she would have gotten was a slap on the wrist. It's not like she was an unindexed powered individual leveling city blocks in her spare time.