Members of the House Oversight Committee visited the facility holding January 6 inmates while they await trial.
Republican and Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee came out of a Washington, D.C., jail tour with very different opinions on how January 6 inmates are being treated inside the facility.
The GOP-led committee previously demanded that arrangements be made to allow lawmakers to tour the facility after Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican, claimed that she saw evidence of “abuse and neglect” after touring the jail in November 2021.
In the letter 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 signees claimed that those standing trial, accused of participating in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were receiving harsh treatment due to their “political beliefs.”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene is already telling lies about the conditions of the facility and saying that there was no insurrection on January 6,” Garcia said. “When we saw the inmates, my Republican colleagues rushed to them and treated them like celebrities rather than people who attacked our capitol police and our very democracy. The actions of our Republican colleagues inside the facility and their lies about the visit are shameful.”
“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.
