The US Marshals Service (USMS) announced Tuesday that it will move 400 detainees out of a Washington DC jail after an “unannounced inspection” found they were being held in unacceptable conditions that did not meet federal standards.
Approximately 400 prisoners — all pretrial detainees — are being moved to a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania, the Marshals Service revealed to The Washington Post. The DC jail at the center of the matter is where defendants in the deadly January 6 Capitol riot are currently being held.
The US Marshals Service released its statement on its inspection at the DC jail on Tuesday.
“The USMS inspection was prompted by recent and historical concerns raised regarding conditions at the DC DOC facilities, including those recently raised by various members of the judiciary,” the Marshals Service said.
I have been inside DC jail many times in the past. Not inmate but in a delivering product capacity. Straight up shithole. Super dangerous. Very lacking security. The jailers were more like buddies with the inmates. A few times I had been inside with my manager who used to make the deliveries and the inmates knew who he was and all told him how much they missed him and asked if he could stay a while. They were mentally torturing him and the guards played along.