House Judiciary Committee Hears Plight of Jan. 6 Prisoners

House Judiciary Committee Hears Plight of Jan. 6 Prisoners
A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York on July 6, 2020. Mark Lennihan/File/AP Photo
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Advocates for inmates who have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol have lamented the lack of national attention being given to the inhumane conditions facing those still in detention.

That changed on Jan. 21, when conservative writer Julie Kelly testified about the matter at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).