WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Marshals issued a statement on Tuesday regarding their surprise inspection visit to the Washington, DC jail to check on conditions at the facility. The buildings subject to inspection included two DC Department Of Correction housing facilities (the Central Treatment Facility (CTF) and the Central Detention Facility (CDF)).
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“The USMS inspection was prompted by recent and historical concerns raised regarding conditions at the DOC facilities, including those recently raised by various members of the judiciary,” the statement said. Over 300 voluntary interviews with detainees were conducted, they said.
The Marshals found that conditions at the CTF were sufficient. However, CDF was found to be severely lacking.
“The U.S. Marshal’s inspection of CDF revealed that conditions there do not meet the minimum standards of confinement as prescribed by the Federal Performance-Based-Detention-Standards,” the statement said.
This included mistreatment of prisoners and “egregious” conditions in the facility.
All 400 people housed at CDF were removed under the Marshal’s authority from the facility and transferred to USP Lewisburg in Pennsylvania.
Reportedly, the DC jail ordered the Marshals to leave the facilities during their multiple-day inspection held from October 18-23.
Acting U.S. marshal, Lamont J. Ruffin said, “For the first time in history, they were ordered to leave the jail…It is beyond belief, some of the reports of the marshal here to the court.”
According to a report by the Washington Post, “In parts of the jail, water ‘had been shut off for days’ as punishment, creating an ‘overpowering’ stench from ‘standing human sewage’ in the toilets of many cells, Ruffin wrote. ‘Hot meals’ were ‘served cold and congealed’; some inmates had ‘observable injuries’ for which no documentation was available; and ‘evidence of drug use was pervasive,’ including the ‘widespread’ odor of marijuana.
“Staff members were ‘observed antagonizing detainees,’ telling them not to cooperate with the inspection, Ruffin said, while jail supervisors ‘appeared unaware or uninterested in any of these issues.’”
Red Voice Media reported last month that the rights of a January 6 arrestee were found to have been violated in the DC facility by District Judge Royce Lamberth for refusing to get the prisoner medical care.
“It is more than just inept and bureaucratic shuffling of papers,” the judge said at the time. “I find that the civil rights of the defendant have been abridged. I don’t know if this is because he is a January 6 defendant or not.”
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If only American citizens could be treated as well as illegal aliens and Islamic Terrorists these facilities would be shut down.
Right Russell….this is disgusting beyond words.
You mean transfer them HOME, right? There are no charges filed against them. They’re illegally and criminally being held.
why can’t we get them out? Are we now a full blown commie country? Where are the actual criminal from November 3 2020, being held?
If only the “American Civil Liberties Union” cared about the civil liberties of Americans being held prisoner with no charges for so long, and not about Biden saying that the precious illegal invaders wouldn’t be getting a cool half mil payday per person. That said, I hope that in the near future we hear more positive stories from the political prisoners.
They only pander to the thugs of the left. Anything anti-American and anti-Constitutional is what they want.
I would rather corrupt politicians be in that jail.
They don’t have enough space … and it would empty out DC LOL
Wonderful news! Way overdue!
This is yet another data point showing the Joe “the Actor” Biden is not the real acting president.
If Biden were truly the president, this surprise inspection and the subsequent removal of the prisoners would NOT have been permitted.
Thank God they got these guys out of piglousys gestapo gulag now America needs to get them free …our govt has become our enemy
Maybe the prisoners can sue the government for being separated from their families and get $450,000
Best idea !!
Amen too that! we should insist they do
Judge Royce Lamberth, IF ONLY, you gave that STAT Inspection/Examination of those 2 Prison Centers a week prior, The Your Marshall Friends would have seen them as a couple of Pig Pens, truly dirty and soiled!!!
Who is that large woman with a very short haircut that seems to be the one who refused to let MTG in the jail?? She? Needs to be questioned and told to step the he’ll aside and let standing all Cogress persons in, who, btw, have jurisdiction over the jail!!
This treatment is a diréct result of the 4th & 5th Amendment-busting NDAA, which the fossilized Inofe and his fat cat turd senators just renewed with gusto and fanfare.
INDEFINITE DETENTION of US citizens on US soil, no habeas corpus, bail, medical treatment, and nobody seems to be putting 2 and 2 together on this.
So here is another example that of injustice, and what will be done? NOTHING!!!!! There will be no changes and will just keep adding proof to the story and nothing will be done to CORRECT it. Just gives Red Voice something to report on and that’s, that.
Meanwhile laws keep being broke by the Government and no one is held Accountable. But dare I Spit on sidewalk or not wear a muzzle and I could be fined or worse.
Ball of Confusion.