Last month, we reported that Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court held D.C. officials in contempt for denying one of Jan. 6 defendants’ rights. Officials refused to give medical records for the defendant so that he could receive proper treatment for a fractured hand.
Lamberth demanded an investigation into conditions detained in the D.C. prison. U.S. The surprise inspection was conducted by U.S. Marshals last month.
It is currently in, and the judge says it’s not good.
As a consequence, Lamberth has now ordered the release of one of the detainees, Christopher Worrell — that man whose rights the judge had already said were violated. In addition to the issue with Worrell’s hand, he needs treatment for cancer. Lamberth said he had “zero confidence that the D.C. jail” would give him the treatment needed and would “not retaliate” against him. Worrell is currently on home detention with a GPS monitor.
Lamberth called the conditions in the jail “deplorable” and “beyond belief” in response to the report from the U.S. Marshals
Some 400 prisoners are being moved out of the jail after the “deplorable” conditions were uncovered. According to CNN, the Marshals’ report found that water was being shutoff in many cells “for punitive reasons” for days at a time, toilets were clogged, and an inmate who had been pepper-sprayed was “unable to wash the spray off for days, leading to an infection.”
The D.C. Department of Corrections staff were “antagonizing detainees” and “directing detainees to not cooperate with” U.S. Marshals during the inspection, the agency said, and “[o]ne DOC staffer was observed telling a detainee to ‘stop snitching.’”
These 400 people are being transported to an American federal facility.
The majority of Jan. 6 defendants were held at the Central Treatment Facility and not in the D.C. Jail.
Washington Examiner
Some Capitol Riot detainees were held for as long as 23 hours per night in isolation confinement, apparently in order to mitigate COVID-19. This arrangement has been criticized by both Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
Unfortunately, many don’t care if Jan. 6 detainees are mistreated. While Joe Biden and Democrats like to talk about Jan. 6, this is a subject that they don’t seem to what to address.
Meanwhile, as we noted before, reports indicated that the FBI doesn’t believe that there was any central coordination of groups or prominent supporters of Trump that were directly involved in the criminal actions at the Capitol, blowing up the narrative of the Democrats and some media.
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