Members of the House Oversight Committee visited the facility holding January 6 inmates while they await trial.
, a Republican, claimed that she saw evidence of"abuse and neglect" after touring the jail in November 2021.signed this month by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, alongside Greene and Louisiana Representative Clay Higgins, the GOP members also demanded that"certain documents and information regarding" the D.C. jail be turned over to the committee by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat.
"The inmates that we saw were being treated fairly, and to be truthful, are being held in much better conditions than most Black and brown inmates in prisons across the country" he added. According to a "And even worse, they used that theater to whitewash an attempted coup that killed five people, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick," Crockett said."As a former public defender, my takeaway is this: the conditions for which the January 6th detainees are living under are an order of magnitude better than those my clients faced back in Texas."
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