{"id":1196573,"date":"2022-01-07T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196573"},"modified":"2022-01-07T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:35:38","slug":"different-from-any-other-jail-in-america-a-january-6-prisoner-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/different-from-any-other-jail-in-america-a-january-6-prisoner-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Different From Any Other Jail In America\u2019: A January 6 Prisoner Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdifferent-from-any-other-jail-in-america-a-january-6-prisoner-speaks-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Jacob Lang, who was arrested for his role in the January 6, 2020 Capitol riot 10 days later and has remained in jail since, says he spent 200 days in solitary confinement, with 23 hours a day alone in a cell.<\/p>\n<p>But now 40 of the January 6 defendants \u2013 all males \u2013 are housed together in a special \u201cpod\u201d at the D.C. jail, where the \u201cenvironment is different from any other jail in America,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in the pod with 40 other patriot men, we\u2019re hanging tough,\u201d he told The Daily Wire in a November phone interview from jail. They sing the national anthem. \u201cWe do Bible studies, I lead a morning Bible study, another man leads an evening Bible study. Sometimes we have little rifts about people wanting to take plea deals, horrible six-year plea deals. We come together and uplift them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lang is a previous New York congressional candidate and self-styled libertarian whose prior criminal record consists of \u201cone misdemeanor charge from five years ago for some pot in the Hamptons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While the defendants went into jail looking like normal people, many now look significantly stranger: The D.C. jail denies barbering services, including shaves, to unvaccinated inmates. That has meant many of the January 6 suspects haven\u2019t shaved in months, which they argue leads to them attending court appearances looking like the Unabomber, causing potential prejudice in their cases.<\/p>\n<p>They have also had visitors most inmates don\u2019t: members of Congress including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX). \u201cWe\u2019re being held on pre-trial detention because supposedly we\u2019re so dangerous,\u201d Lang remarked, yet they\u2019ll let \u201csome of the most powerful people in the world\u201d stand next to us.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Lang, who was one of the first inmates in the pod, are also among the most severe of the group. \u201cI have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/page\/file\/1364166\/download\">allegations<\/a> of eight alleged assaults on police officers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/page\/file\/1355866\/download\">affidavit<\/a> says a media photograph \u201cshows what appears to be LANG in a crowd, holding a protective shield as other members of the crowd swing bats and batons at officers, as well as throw projectiles at them. LANG went on to retrieve a riot helmet with the letters \u201cMPDC\u201d from the ground and wear it for the duration of the video.\u201d It says other photos \u201cshow what appears to be LANG carrying a protective shield and engaging with law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said an Instagram post from the day showed a woman asking him \u201cSo what do you think happens next,\u201d and him responding \u201cGuns\u2026 That\u2019s it. One word. The First Amendment didn\u2019t work, we pull out the Second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lang says he was saving lives from police brutality. He said he attempted to pull the body of Rosanne Boyland out of a Capitol tunnel after \u201cpolice beat her on the ground and pushed a massive swarm of people on top of her.\u201d Boyland died that day.<\/p>\n<p>Another man present that day, Phillip Anderson, filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/58955673\/29\/1\/united-states-v-lang\/\">affidavit<\/a> with the court saying that Lang saved his life. Anderson said police were using \u201cexcessive force\u201d against him and he could not breathe. He said he heard Lang warning the crowd, including officers, that people were being crushed. \u201cJake proceeded to save my life by pulling me out of the pile of people. If Jake was not present to help me, I would have died on January 6, 2021, and it would have been because of the actions that the police took,\u201d Anderson, who is black, wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Lang says the way January 6 suspects have been treated stands in sharp contrast to the treatment of criminals in Democrat-run cities, where \u201cthere\u2019s a revolving door, people are being let out for robbery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of his own lawyers, Marty Tankleff, spent 17 years in prison after a wrongful conviction for homicide that was later overturned, Lang said. \u201cMarty walks into court in late September when I had my bond motion. He looks the judge in the eye and says \u2018in 2000 I was charged with double homicide and I was let out on bond. My client is alleged to smash a baseball bat on a riot shield. Nobody got hurt. And he\u2019s not allowed to be let out on bond?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is also in contrast to the treatment of others who attended riots over the last two years, he said. \u201cThere was a protest outside the Department of Interior for climate change and there were these leftist activists throwing bike racks at cops, they were just given $50 violation tickets, loitering, disrupting the peace. When we get arrested for the same allegation, we\u2019re stripped of everything. I haven\u2019t had a visitation in 10 months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks other Americans may be increasingly able to relate to what he has gone through. \u201cThere\u2019s FBI agents who have become an arm of the Democratic party. Look at what they\u2019re doing to parents at school board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty of the January 6 defendants \u2013 all males, plus one transgender woman \u2013 are housed together in a special \u201cpod\u201d at the D.C. jail, where the \u201cenvironment is different from any other jail in America,\u201d Jacob Lang says.\u00a0They sing the national anthem. They do Bible studies. But those are not the only ways their experience has been different from those of other accused criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}