Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability toured the jail in response to complaints from Jan. 6 defendants held there.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters Friday after touring the D.C. jail in response to complaints that defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot are being treated poorly there. About a dozen House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene , and two Democrats toured the D.C. jail Friday to inspect the conditions under which 20 men charged in the, 2021, Capitol riot are being held, and the two parties emerged with sharply different versions of what they saw.
“Stories of being denied medical treatment, stories of assault, stories of being threatened with rape.”The two Democrats who joined the tour said the jail conditions were unremarkable. They said jails are not supposed to be luxury hotels, and that the tour was a political stunt. Democrats have long accused Greene and Republicans of misleading the public about the mistreatment of Jan. 6 defendants in jail.“As far as I’m concerned, this absolutely passed with flying colors,” said Rep.
Garcia said each of the defendants have two computer tablets, one for entertainment and one for legal work, can text their families and contact their attorneys whenever they want. “They’re being treated very fairly and appropriately,” Garcia said. “The mostly Black and Brown inmates housed in the dilapidated and inferior Central Detention Facility are eager to get moved into the more modern, spacious and comfortable [Correctional] Treatment Facility where the January 6 defendants and convicts now reside,” said Raskin, who did not attend the tour Friday.Deficiencies inside the D.C. jail became a national story in November 2021, when the U.S.
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