January 6 political prisoners claim they are being tortured in DC jail with 'ear-piercing noise'

by: Pat Droney 2024-03-06 Source: Law Enforcement Today Opinion



WASHINGTON, DC- The United States Constitution bans explicitly “cruel and unusual punishment.” That provision is outlined in the Bill of Rights under the Eighth Amendment:

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.”

Someone may want to inform those running the Washington, D.C. gulag, otherwise known as the Washington DC Correctional Treatment Facility. The Gateway Pundit was contacted by January 6 prisoners detained at that facility who told the outlet that “an ear-shattering, harrowing sharp noise” has been blasted throughout the prison for weeks in the cell block where January 6 political prisoners are being held.

It has previously been reported by several outlets, including Law Enforcement Today, The Gateway Pundit, and others, about the harsh treatment January 6 detainees have experienced in the DC facility. Detainees have reported episodes of brutality and torture after complaints about the Bureau of Prisons System and the Department of Justice were made to the media.

Remember…this isn’t a Turkish prison we are talking about. This is a prison in the United States, where our Constitution is supposed to protect those who are locked up. We hear often enough, primarily from so-called “progressives,” about the harsh conditions inside our jails and prisons.

Yet you hear nothing but crickets from them concerning those locked up for January 6, some only being held or convicted for offenses such as parading or trespassing. These are not hardened criminals, by and large.

In February, The Gateway Pundit reports, “two political prisoners were ripped from their cells, abducted, and transferred to the country’s most hostile anti-Trump correctional facilities” while also being barred from any type of communication. It is unknown where the two inmates, Ryan Samsel and Jake Lang, were transferred.

Samsel believes the government is “trying to kill” him. He is suffering from a severe medical condition involving blood clots and was only recently given blood thinners to help prevent throwing a clot, which could be fatal.

‘As soon as I was recommended outside [medical] treatment, I get [transferred]. This is what always happens,” Samsel said. “Every single time I am referred to outside treatment, I get [transferred]. Stopping my meds will make me extremely sick.”

Another political prisoner, Matthew Krol, currently wears a pacemaker and said he died of a heart attack while he was incarcerated and was revived while he awaits heart surgery. Krol is also in a legal battle with the DC jail over medical deprivation. Krol reached out to The Gateway Pundit about the overbearing noise.

“We have another situation here in C3A. For weeks now, throughout the day and many nights, there [are] sounds of construction going on,” Krol said, telling TGP it has been going on for a couple of weeks. “The supervisors say there is no construction at night, yet the noise continues.

“And there have been C/O’s [correctional officers] that have said there [is] no construction going on in the pod above us. It is 10:23 PM, and our current ℅ has been in my cell listening twice tonight to the noise. Inmates in the USA are supposed to get 8-½ hours of [un]interrupted sleep a day, that does not happen here.”

The outlet visited the jail last week with an undercover camera and found a scaffold erected on the exterior of the building, alongside shattered glass on the grounds and possible dried puddles of blood on the ground.

When TGP’s reporter walked into the jail lobby, the “deafening noise Krol claimed the inmates have endured living with for weeks was persistently blaring off the cinderblock walls of the jail,” the outlet reported.

“Can we get our supporters to contact the jail, the Marshals, and their Congressmen? Other inmates here will verify what I’m saying. Thank you,” Krol wrote in a text message to TGP.

When the outlet returned to the jail last Friday, “the same ear-piercing noise was blaring throughout the building,” they reported.

The use of sound is a form of torture that the military has used at Gitmo, where Muslim prisoners tied to terrorism have been held. Some members of Congress and the United Nations have widely condemned that practice. Yet when it comes to January 6 detainees, nothing.

Policy at the prison requires all visitors to be escorted to a private room by guards, “where they are subject to invasive patdowns.” Among those invasive patdowns, female visitors must remove their shoes, bend over, lift their bras and undergarments, open their mouths, and lift their tongues to ensure no illegal substances are present, and then be allowed to conduct their visit.

By and large and with few exceptions, members of Congress, including Republicans, have stayed away from the jail, apparently uninterested in the horrifying conditions described by the political prisoners. By way of location, the facility is located just a few short miles from the US Capitol. Yet nobody, Republicans included, can take the time to see what American citizens are being subjected to.