The January Sixers Have Their Own Unit at the DC Jail. Here's What Life Is Like Inside

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I spent a lot of last fall reporting on what life is actually like for the January 6 prisoners in the D.C. Jail. You can read what I found here:

The January Sixers Have Their Own Unit at the DC Jail. Here's What Life Is Like Inside
They’ve got their own internal justice system for problem-solving—and a Sunday comedy ritual.
washingtonian.com
5:52 AM · Jan 5, 2022

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/01/05/the-january-sixers-have-their-own-unit-at-the-dc-jail-heres-what-life-is-like-inside/

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Just as some of the Sixers were shocked to learn that the election couldn’t simply be overturned, some of the detainees seem surprised that jail food is bad. “Definitely a lack of fruit and vegetables,” Fellows says. “Like, it’s on MyPlate.gov: We’re supposed to get a daily serving of fruit and vegetables and actual good greens.” There’s a lot of white bread, and almost always bologna and cheese for dinner. “On Thanksgiving,” sniffs DeGrave, “we got turkey bologna.”

Sixers who want iPad time and have funds to spend get to use tablets to read the news. Everyone is allowed to watch TV, and they followed the Virginia governor’s race like college-football fans. But they don’t tune the thing only to conservative outlets. The local DC news is a go-to, plus Storage Wars, Hardcore Pawn, and, whenever possible, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, or The Bachelor in Paradise. Says DeGrave: “All the Bachelors.”

On Sundays, everyone looks forward to “The Hope-ium Den.” The Hope-ium Den? “Where we all get together and put on a show,” DeGrave says. “There’s comedy shows and there’s skits, and some people get up and sing or share lyrics or read poetry.” Sometimes the songs poke gentle fun at fellow inmates. Emcee Jeff McKellop (accused of throwing a flagpole at a cop “similar in fashion to throwing a spear”; he has pleaded not guilty) hosts, using a mop handle as a microphone. Edward Jacob Lang—accused of hitting cops with a baseball bat—is a regular performer. (Lang was the guy who posted a January 6 photo of a group overwhelming police, which he finger-emoji-captioned, “THIS IS ME”; he has also pleaded not guilty.)

Grooming is . . . problematic. No vax? No entry at the barbershop. One option is to go for the cue-ball look: Fellows and DeGrave say the Sixers have recently been given hair-removal cream, either Nair or Magic Cream Shave, a product that’s supposed to provide depilation without razor bumps. “You have to lather it on and then wait about, like, five minutes,” Fellows says, “and then you’ve got to rip it out. So that’s pretty painful. And leaves, like, a sunburn-like burn on your face or head for, like, a day or two.” One attorney told me that the Sixers get access to fingernail clippers every few weeks. Some use them to cut their hair.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. yeah put them all together so they can bond over their conspiracy theories and paranoia...

so they can create terrorist cells more effectively when they get out of their short prison stints.

[Nevilledog]

2. White privilege jail.

[ShazamIam]

5. Shockingly so, I don't think the anti-Iraq war protesters were treated so kindly.

[llashram]

10. +++

comment reserved on what few would be left to enjoy jail IF the insurrectionists had been majority melanin-rich...

[catrose]

3. My first thought

[lame54]

12. The victim squad

[RandPaulsNeighbor]

23. Ridiculous

They should be in the general population. Every step of the way, they are treated as crim/coup adjacent, but not what they actually are, traitors to our country.

[Progressive Jones]

4. I guess it sucks to be them. They should be happy they're still alive. nt

[Beastly Boy]

6. Poor darlings! Almost as bad as "affordable housing" in the hood. But far less expensive.

[peggysue2]

7. Poor babies!

I still love the one female insurrectionist who was talking about her upcoming prison stay as if she were expecting a spa-like environment, somewhere she could concentrate on weight-loss and yoga.

Go for it, girlfriend!

As for the rest of us? We'll stay put in the comfort of our homes.

You can't make this sh*t up.

[tenderfoot]

8. Has any "journalist" asked those dipshits if Trump helped pay any of their legal fees?

[bottomofthehill]

9. if I assaulted a cop in DC today, do you think I could get my own special wing too

I dont think so. Put them in Gen-Pop and let them live the dream. Fuck them all

[Orange Buffoon]

11. Agreed. Why are they getting special treatment? They might as well be at camp.

[DemUnleashed]

13. Infuriating!

Makes no sense that they can hang out together! Put them in prison with the general group of inmates and let them experience how other prisoners feel about them!

[Orange Buffoon]

14. Several of them will probably write memoirs now.

[Nevilledog]

15. I believe Jenna Ryan is already writing one.

Read she self-surrendered before Xmas so she could include in her book how hard it was too spend Xmas in jail.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. People all too often think life in prison is good.

They'll say the inmates get "three hots and a cot", when in reality the meals are often cold, not enough food, and miserable quality. Plus, even routine health care is almost nonexistent.

[Initech]

29. Yeah that scene from Office Space is coming to mind, LOL.

[NQAS]

17. Fuck 'em

This is how they become even more radicalized. They're feeding each others' distorted egos and realities.

I'm not sure they use the term gen pop in places other than movies, but that's where they belong. They are criminals, or, so, far alleged criminals, and they belong with other criminals and alleged criminals - Black, white, whatever. Just not in their own "wing."

[SergeStorms]

18. So they're in a country club prison?

I wanted these guys (and women) doing hard time!

Turkey bologna? They're eating pretty high on the hog for criminals. White bread? These morons are white bread personified!

They get to watch TV (probably cable) and perform skits? 🎭 Where did we send them, the freaking Juilliard School?

What a bunch of cry babies! 👶

[uponit7771]

22. yep

[Solly Mack]

19. ...

“It is frustrating and discouraging,” Robert White, an at-large DC Council member, told me. The fact that white prisoners finally got a spotlight on the jail’s problems is “not at all lost on the people inside the jail. They know how long this has been going on. And they know why it’s getting attention now.”

[Grokenstein]

20. I'm sure they'll fight for prison reforms when they get out.

/sarcasmgasm

...wait, white bread? Isn't that cannibalism?

[Orange Buffoon]

21. Each of them, separately, needs to be bunking with a large guy named Rufus or Butch or Marcus.

[3825-87867]

24. And how are they treated differently

than the rest of the prison population?

Are they treated better, the same or worse?

And since most of the sixers are white...

and most of the rest are not...

CRT in person?

[Marcuse]

25. The D.C. Department of Corrections has a new location and policy manual for the Sixer Unit.

[Cobalt Violet]

26. Not a bit of remorse.

Just pathetic entitlement.

[Delmette2.0]

27. "always bologna and cheese for dinner...for Thanksgiving turkey bologna"

[Initech]

28. OMG! It's the equivalent of Nazi Germany you guys!! We're in the gulags!

[iemanja]

30. They should be mixed in with the general population

That segregated unit is bullshit.

[Carlitos Brigante]

31. Pretty sure this is how the so called "Islamic State" originated in the first

place. This is a terrible idea.

[3825-87867]

32. Been in some countries

where looking nasty at a picture of the current ruler wouldn't get you a bologna sandwich 5 of 7 straight days let alone a holiday!