House Judiciary Committee Hears Plight of January 6 Prisoners
Ken Silva | January 21, 2022Advocates for inmates arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol have lamented the lack of national attention on the inhumane conditions facing those still in detention.
That changed Jan. 21, when conservative writer Julie Kelly testified about the matter at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
The Jan. 21 hearing followed months of unsuccessful attempts by some Republican lawmakers to find answers on how Jan. 6 inmates are being treated. GOP representatives were interrupted by left-wing protestors while trying to hold a press conference on the matter last July and were barred from a Washington DC jail housing 50 defendants when they tried to check on their conditions days later.
Inmates reported marginal improvement in treatment after a visit by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to the Washington facility, but Kelly told committee members that conditions apparently have backslid since then.
“One detainee I spoke with this week, an Army reservist charged with no violent crime, said the DC jail is on a 22-hour lockdown due to COVID,” said Kelly, a writer for American Greatness. . . .
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