Julie Kelly: The DC Gulag Is Slow-Rolling the Release of J6 Political Prisoners

Fire the bitch in charge of this gulag, stat.

And yes, it's a woman. Who else would it be, after four years of DEI hiring.

Ask and it is done: She was fired yesterday.

Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons after 30 months on the job just as President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday. Deputy Director William Lathrop will take over as acting director. An agency outsider, Peters took the BOP job after heading the Oregon Department of Corrections.

Post-Millennial:

On President Donald Trump's first day in office, he signed pardons for around 1,500 people charged and arrested in connection with January 6. As of Tuesday morning, journalist Julie Kelly told Steve Bannon that the DC jail housing some of those who had been pardoned is "holding back" on their release.

Kelly told Bannon that in the wake of those pardons, "J6ers are gradually being released from federal prisons across the country. Of course, DC gulag is holding out because that's what they do, because this is a political gulag, so they're going to do whatever they can to extend the torment of Trump supporters in custody there."

She added that she has seen "really moving videos and photographs of men and women who are being released from federal prison who are cutting off their ankle bracelets. You know, this is really such a joyous moment."

Outside the DC jail, Ben Bergquam spoke with William Sarsfield, who had been released from the Philadelphia Detention Center at around 3 in the morning on Tuesday and traveled to DC to join the protest outside the jail.

Sarsfield told Bergquam, "We got to stick together. Where we go one, we go all. It don't matter who's in front of us and who's going to stop us. We'll just walk right over them. We're here to say we're free and the rest of us need to be freed."

One of those who is reportedly being prevented from being released is Rachel Powell.

Cynthia Hughes, founder of the Patriot Freedom Project, wrote that she had received a call at 3 am to pick up Powell. She and others went to DC to pick her up, waiting until 4:30 am, but the jail was not releasing her. "They said come back at 7 AM and here it is 10:20 and they are still refusing to release her," Hughes said. Powell had been held at FCI Hazelton in West Virginia but in the DC jail because of a sentencing hearing.

"We are in a 98% Democratic district where they hate Trump and his supporters. The officer literally said they had to verify the President's executive order, like WHAT!! This low level broken and corrupt jail needs a thorough investigation immediately," she added.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote in response, "Outrageous!! They're refusing to release J6 prisoners just pardoned by President Trump. There must be very severe accountability for DC if they refuse to comply with the law."

More from PJ Media:

A family member of J6er Jake Lang, likely his fiancée, accused via Lang's X account on Monday evening that he was assaulted by prison guards, handcuffed, and thrown back in his cell while in the process of being released. Lang has been in jail for four years without a trial in inhumane conditions, much of it in solitary confinement. I was subsequently able to reach Lang by text, and he confirmed that the D.C. Gulag was refusing to release some of the J6 prisoners.

"The GULAG doesn't want to cough up its hostages!!! After 1465 days, every second is like an eternity!! I'm ready to go home!!! God will deliver!!!" Lang wrote me in his message.

Early Tuesday morning, Lang posted an update: "Hey @elonmusk they are STILL HOLDING me & 20 other J6 Political Prisoners hostage inside the Washington DC Jail Gulag & WONT LET US LEAVE!!!" He reiterated the accusation of assault. "I was swarmed & assaulted by prison officials including Lt. Allen & his Emergency Response Team (ERT) Thugs last night while sitting all packed up to leave!!!! Our were families are standing outside in below freezing 10° weather until 1am when they released 2 hostages, there are still 20 of us in here!!! [sic]"

Lang addressed Musk because, as noted above, the X owner and Trump administration official had posted the night before to confirm that Trump's executive order did indeed demand the immediate release of all J6 prisoners. But prison guards have been reported laughing at or harassing individuals who showed up to reunite with Jan. 6 prisoners.

posted by Ace at 04:48 PM

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