Marjorie Taylor Greene and House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer are among a group of congressional Republicans “investigating” jail conditions in Washington DC over allegations of “inhumane treatment” of defendants charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Greene, Comer and congressman Clay Higgins signed a letter to Washington DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser on 9 March demanding that a congressional delegation be allowed to visit jail facilities, which they said paint “a picture of despair, hopelessness, and a severe abuse of justice.”

Hmmm….

Poor conditions and other failures inside Washington DC’s jails have long been the subject of scrutiny from criminal justice advocates who noted that the complaints from a prison population of majority-Black people have fallen on deaf ears from Republican members of Congress – until the aftermath of the January 6 attack.

Crying    /    Roy Orbison