{"id":1640398,"date":"2022-09-13T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640398"},"modified":"2022-09-13T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:52:08","slug":"exclusive-rep-gohmert-demands-welfare-check-of-jan-6-prisoners-following-assault-and-lockdown-at-dc-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-gohmert-demands-welfare-check-of-jan-6-prisoners-following-assault-and-lockdown-at-dc-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Gohmert Demands \u2018Welfare Check\u2019 of Jan. 6 Prisoners Following Assault and Lockdown at DC Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fexclusive-rep-gohmert-demands-welfare-check-of-jan-6-prisoners-following-assault-and-lockdown-at-dc-jail%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=1640398&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>In the wake of the assault of several Jan. 6 prisoners and subsequent lockdown at the District of Columbia jail, United States Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is demanding a welfare check on the inmates.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/exclusive-jan-6-prisoners-and-families-expose-brutal-truth-about-jail-lockdown_4714149.html\">reported by The Epoch Times<\/a>, \u201cIt began without warning. A Jan. 6 prisoner had emerged from his cell without a mask. When it was all over, the jail was in lockdown and several inmates had been pepper sprayed, handcuffed, and thrown into solitary confinement. Inmate tablets were quickly confiscated, but not before several prisoners had time to send text messages, exposing the brutal truth of what happened.\u201d Many of those messages were obtained by The Epoch Times. According to one text message, \u201c[Expletive] just went down\u201d at the\u00a0Correctional Treatment Facility\u00a0(CTF) in Washington, D.C., around 9:46 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/07\/3Texts-1200x689.jpg\"><\/a> Screenshot of text messages sent out by three January 6 prisoners as events unfolded at the jail in Washington D.C. during an alleged assault, initiated by Lieutenant Crystal Lancaster. (Courtesy of Sarah McAbee) <\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator of the alleged assaults was Lieutenant Crystal Lancaster,\u00a0the guard in charge of the solitary confinement area known as \u201cThe Hole\u201d at the CTF.\u00a0One of the assaulted prisoners was Ryan Nichols.<\/p>\n<p>According to a habeas petition (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1KVZoSFsE8YC8gWEYXheFEOHmmHVRa63A\/view\">pdf<\/a>) filed with the United States District Court, District of Columbia by Nichols\u2019s attorney, Joseph McBride, Lancaster \u201cverbally and mentally abuses inmates.\u201d Lancaster \u201calso oversees officers and guards who do the same, and is suspected of bringing drugs into the prison.\u201d Lancaster, notorious among Jan. 6 prisoners and their family members for being particularly vulgar and brutal, had been banned from the Jan. 6 pod for verbal abuse and for stealing the inmates\u2019 mail, according to the wife of one of the inmates. It is unclear why she was in the J6 pod<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the assault of several Jan. 6 prisoners and subsequent lockdown at the District of Columbia jail, United States Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is demanding a welfare check on the inmates. As reported by The Epoch Times, \u201cIt began without warning. A Jan. 6 prisoner had emerged from his cell without a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"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-1640398","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\/1640398","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\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640398\/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=1640398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}