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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered that a Jan. 6 defendant diagnosed with cancer be transferred to another prison after an inspection at a D.C jail found that prisoners were living in "deplorable" conditions.

The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing conditions at Washington's local jail after a judge held top officials there in contempt for impeding access to medical care for a defendant in the U.S. Capitol riots, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday.

Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, has seen enough of the rotten treatment of the January 6 detainees.

THE FOUNDATION "How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best...

In a case involving a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant from Southwest Florida, a federal judge held the District of Columbia’s corrections director and jail warden in contempt of court Wednesday and asked the Justice Department to investigate whether inmates’ civil rights are being abused. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had summoned the jail officials […]

The judge said Christopher Worrell's rights were violated and passed his case to to the Justice Department for a civil rights investigation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a case involving a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant, a federal judge...

DOJ ordered to conduct civil rights investigation into abuses of 1/6 political prisoners

A federal judge has found the warden of a D.C. jail and the director of the D.C. Department of Corrections in contempt of court Wednesday and called for an investigation by the Department of Justice to determine whether the jail has violated the...

In a case involving a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant with a broken wrist, a federal judge held the District of Columbia's corrections director and jail warden in contempt of court Wednesday. And he's asking the Justice Department to investigate whether the civil rights of other inmates arrested in the riot are being abused.