Greene, Democrats offer tale-of-two-jails after visit with Jan. 6 defendants
by Mychael Schnell - 03/24/23 8:59 PM ETRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and a pair of Democratic lawmakers offered a tale-of-two-jails on Friday after a group visited the Washington, D.C. jail, where pre-trial defendants from Jan. 6, 2021, are being held.
Greene led the trip to the D.C. jail and was joined by other members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee from both parties. Greene — who previously visited the facility in November 2021 and has been pushing to return since — earlier this month said she wanted to tour the jail to address “the human rights abuse” inside.
But after emerging from the facility, lawmakers from opposite parties offered contrasting accounts of the conditions they had just witnessed.
“What we saw today is exactly what we’ve known all along — it’s a two-tiered justice system, and there’s a very different treatment for pre-trial Jan. 6 defendants and the inmates or, you know, other charged defendants and inmates,” Greene told reporters outside the jail. A protester blew a loud whistle during her remarks.
“These men are being held, their due process rights were being violated, and they have been mistreated,” she added, calling the defendants “political prisoners.”
Greene said the group was not able to tour the entire jail, but they did go into the Jan 6 pretrial defendant wing.
“They told us stories of being denied medical treatment, they told us stories of assault, they told us stories of being threatened with rape and guards laughing about it,” she said.
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