Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform will investigate reports of "despair, hopelessness, and severe abuse of justice" at a Washington, D.C., jail holding alleged Jan. 6 participants.
"No prisoner in the United States should be treated in this fashion," reads a five-page letter to District Mayor Muriel Bowers that was signed by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Clay Higgins, R-La., and posted Thursday night on Greene's Twitter page, reported The Washington Examiner.
The lawmakers make several demands in their letter seeking documents and other information, and list several complaints about accusations of abuse in the jail, including allegations that the facility has engaged in political persecution, denying Bibles to prisoners, and accusations that the food is either of poor quality or poisoned.
More than 1,000 people were charged for participating in the Jan. 6 riot and disrupting Congress' certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to the Justice Department. Several are in jail after being convicted; others have not been tried.
The U.S. Marshall's Service conducted an inspection of the jail, the letter notes, and has reported "egregious" violations.
Greene, who has been leading an effort to improve the conditions being faced by the Jan. 6 defendants, recently released a series of tweets by a deputy warden at the D.C. jail and called her a "hateful" anti-Trumper who has been mistreating prisoners.
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