{"id":622067,"date":"2023-03-24T20:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T01:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/house-lawmakers-tour-d-c-jail-holding-jan-6-defendants-to-inspect-conditions\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T20:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T01:40:58","slug":"house-lawmakers-tour-d-c-jail-holding-jan-6-defendants-to-inspect-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/house-lawmakers-tour-d-c-jail-holding-jan-6-defendants-to-inspect-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"House lawmakers tour D.C. jail holding Jan. 6 defendants to inspect conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued the inmates were being \u201ctreated as political prisoners,\u201d while Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett \u201cdidn\u2019t see anything that was alarming.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks to the media along with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., outside the DC Department of Corrections, in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2023.<\/span>Tasos Katopodis \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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By Zo\u00eb Richards<\/a><\/span> and Fiona Glisson<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Members of the House Oversight Committee on Friday toured a Washington, D.C., jail<\/a> where some Jan. 6 defendants are being held and offered contrasting descriptions of conditions inside the facility.<\/p>\n

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spearheaded the visit, painted a picture of constitutional violations and overall mistreatment, while her Democratic counterparts said the defendants were being treated fairly with nothing out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n

“Their due process rights are being violated. And they have been mistreated and treated as political prisoners,” Greene, R-Ga., told reporters after the tour, flanked by fellow Republicans on the committee, including Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida\u00a0and Mike Collins of Georgia.<\/p>\n

Greene, who previously visited the jail in November 2021, had worked with House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., to organize the trip for\u00a0members of Congress<\/a>. Comer’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Friday’s tour.<\/p>\n

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who was also on hand for the tour, was seen exchanging a hug with Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt<\/a>, a Jan. 6 rioter who was shot by police as she jumped through a broken window while members of Congress fled.<\/p>\n

The two Democrats on Friday’s tour disputed Republican characterizations of the jail and the Jan. 6 defendants.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, a former public defender, described the visit as \u201cpolitical theater,\u201d adding that she \u201cdidn\u2019t see anything that was alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n

California Rep. Robert Garcia told reporters that the defendants were \u201cbeing treated very fairly appropriately,\u201d adding that Republicans were \u201ctreating these insurrectionists like they\u2019re pseudo celebrities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Washington Corrections Department is holding 20 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot, according to an analysis this month by Just Security<\/a>, out of about 1,000 people who have been arrested. Nine of the 20 have been convicted or have pleaded guilty, and just three defendants at the D.C. jail haven\u2019t been charged with physically assaulting law enforcement officers during the attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zo\u00eb Richards is the evening politics reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued the inmates were being \u201ctreated as political prisoners,\u201d while Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett \u201cdidn\u2019t see anything that was alarming.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks to the media along with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., outside the DC Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,10,4151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-622067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-house","9":"category-lawmakers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}