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2022-01-02 Government Corruption

D.C. Jail Cuts J6 Prisoners' Communications After Newsmax Interview

[PJMEDIA] Jacob Lang has been awaiting trial without bail in the D.C. jail for his involvement in the January 6 riot at the Capitol for almost a year, along with many others who have been charged with crimes connected to that day. With no trial date in sight, he and his fellow inmates languish in a jail they say is inhumane. The J6 prisoners’ complaints about filthy conditions and inhumane treatment resulted in a surprise inspection that found everything they were saying was true. As a result, over 400 prisoners were moved to different facilities—none of them J6 prisoners.

Lang has been in contact with PJ Media and several other media sources and was recently giving an interview on Newsmax TV when the jail cut off his phone access. Afterward, Lang reported to PJ Media that the jail took away all access to the internet and cut off phone privileges for all the detainees. They are now on lockdown and Lang says he’s not even able to call his lawyer.

Regardless of what crimes these people are charged with, there is a protocol for how prisoners are supposed to be treated, especially pre-trial detainees who have the presumption of innocence. None of that seems to have been followed in the cases involving the J6 arrestees.

In a text sent to PJ Media by Lang’s family, Lang wrote, "I am being held in true solitary confinement, locked in my cell 22 hours a day. In response to my viral Newsmax interview yesterday, where the D.C. jail cut my interview mid-sentence, and the automated message rung [sic] out on live national TV, ’this call is being terminated by the jail.’ I have now been completely cut off from the outside world! They have suspended my phone and tablet access. I cannot talk to my family or my attorney. I literally have nothing left but food and my Bible."

Lang says he has "no lawyer access, no visitation, no calls, no haircuts, and no religious services."

Lang is charged with assaulting a police officer and was seen on video wielding a baseball bat. He claims it was in self-defense and in the defense of others who were suffocating to death and being trampled. Lang also claims he did not bring the bat but found it on the ground. Lang says that police were attacking people, including Roseanne Boyland, who died after being pulled out from the bottom of a pile of people Lang says police created.

On December 27, a few days before the Newsmax interview, Lang spoke to PJ Media and said that the solitary confinement began before Christmas in response to alleged covid outbreaks. Lang says he doesn’t know anyone who is sick in his jail pod. "We are literally being mentally tortured in here," he said. "Solitary confinement over 10 days was ruled by the Geneva convention to be cruel and unusual punishment and I’ve lived like that the first 200 days I got to this jail." After that, the prisoners were given five hours a day out of their cells, which Lang says is a little better. But that all changed before Christmas. "Now we’re back to this 22-hour lockdown and two hours out a day."

"They let out two or three people at a time so we get minor human interaction," he said. "There are some people in here who have really been drained by this."

Lang says they are treated like animals. "We are considered innocent until proven guilty and we are supposed to have all of our rights afforded to us except our freedom of movement," he said. "Our privacy rights are supposed to be maintained. Our freedom of speech rights are supposed to be maintained. How could I have my freedom of speech rights if I’m locked in a cell away from my lawyer, away from my family, away from doing interviews?"

Posted by Fred 2022-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 " In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

Im old enough to remember when the Constitution meant something.

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-01-02 03:52|| 2022-01-02 03:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this why Biden is building a second courtroom in Cuba?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-02 06:01|| 2022-01-02 06:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Lang says he’s not even able to call his lawyer.

They're just rubbing our faces in it now. Show trials. Stasi tactics. Political loyalty tests. They're not even going through the motions of upholding the Constitution.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-02 07:29|| 2022-01-02 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Sympathy for them, but the Geneva Conventions don't apply to accused criminals. Does he claim to be a POW? Unless he was in uniform, that may turn out worse for him.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-01-02 09:01|| 2022-01-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 That's my take as well. Those J6 prisoners that have not appropriately and publicly repudiated Trump will be the 1st to go.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-01-02 10:31|| 2022-01-02 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The process is the punishment. However, this kind of process is also how you make a Trotsky or a Stalin. The Czar's prisons and Siberian exiles created determined revolutionaries.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-01-02 15:09|| 2022-01-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

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