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Title: Inside The Re-Education Program One Lawyer Is Teaching To Capitol Rioters
Post by: mystery-ak on July 16, 2021, 11:57:39 pm
Inside The Re-Education Program One Lawyer Is Teaching To Capitol Rioters


Varun Hukeri
General Assignment & Analysis Reporter
July 16, 2021 6:02 PM ET
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Several participants of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have been taking part in one attorney’s re-education program, which involves reading books or watching movies about topics like slavery and the Holocaust, as they face sentencing.

Heather Shaner, one of the many D.C. attorneys assigned to represent Capitol riot defendants who can’t afford their own, spoke to HuffPost in late June about the remedial social studies program she is offering to clients. Shaner said she normally sends clients books to read before their trial, but added that she wanted to take a more intensive approach with Capitol riot defendants.

“They’re a captured audience, and it’s life-changing for a lot of them,” she said. “Reading books and then watching these shows is like a revelation. I think that education is a very powerful tool … So I gave them book lists and shows that they should watch.”

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