J6 political hostages, who’re lastly doing bids in jail after being held in pretrial detention for practically three years, are being tortured whereas incarcerated.
Earlier this week, this reporter acquired a cellphone name from my buddy Joseph Biggs, a former Military Workers Sergeant who acquired two purple hearts in fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, a former InfoWars reporter and former chief of the Proud Boys, who was discovered responsible of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Biggs is now housed in FCI Talladega, a medium safety federal correctional establishment in Talladega, Alabama jail, the place he will probably be incarcerated for over a decade except he wins an enchantment in three years or receives a pardon.
He defined in in depth element what he has endured since we final spoke throughout visitation within the DC gulag in late September, two days earlier than being transferred to a Philadephia holding jail.
However reporting on the abuse and torture Biggs described may put him in additional hazard.
Earlier than detainment in Alabama, Biggs and his co-defendants Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, and Dominic Pezzolla had been held within the Philadelphia jail for practically two months. The frequent interviews with the media seemingly prompted their transfer from DC to Philadelphia. Rehl advised The Gateway Pundit they had been “packed like sardines” in Philly and needed to wait in line for hours to ship an e-mail or make the one fifteen-minute cellphone name they had been permitted every day.
Proper earlier than they had been moved from DC, correctional officers had been looking down inmates within the patriot pod to check them for COVID and throwing them in solitary confinement within the filthy gap to “quarantine.” At the very least within the DC gulag, J6ers are afforded a pill to ship textual content messages and watch motion pictures incessantly and they’re detained with different January 6 defendants, sometimes nonviolent offenders with no prison historical past previous to January sixth.
As they equipped for the switch to jail, we assumed restrictions round what they publicly disclose about their scenario might lastly ease up.
Throughout the trial and earlier than sentencing, they risked being penalized by the federal government for chatting with the media. Decide Kelly added the federal government’s recommended terror enhancements to Rehl’s sentence for discussing his political beliefs in interviews with TGP.
With trial and sentencing behind them, we mentioned probably internet hosting a weekly podcast from jail or writing a guide to proceed to shine a lightweight on the corrupt BOP.
Now in jail, they’re housed with serial killers, murderers, rapists, pedophiles and concern they may get killed.
It has develop into more and more evident talking out whereas in federal custody may end in extreme retaliation by jail guards or different inmates.
Pezzola’s mom advised TGP earlier this month that her son was being tortured, barred from communication, and starved. She mentioned she was involved Pezzola was designated as a terrorist inside the Bureau of Prisons system. She mentioned guards warned Pezzola he would stay locked within the gap and tortured for exclaiming, “Trump gained, and all people is aware of it” in courtroom moments after he was sentenced.
Biggs has not spoken to his attorneys for months to handle considerations about what he can or can not safely publicly focus on.
In an e-mail to this reporter, Biggs requested for books to keep up his sanity amid the hellish circumstances.
“I wish to learn Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper and a guide known as Belief Me I’m Mendacity. In case you may ship me these, it could be a lot appreciated. This place shouldn’t be good. It’s stuffed with … intercourse offenders and youngster molesters. I believe the federal government is sending us to those locations so we fuck up and get in bother,” Biggs wrote. “I’m simply going to learn and keep to myself. Folks hold committing suicide right here.
“I’ll survive, although. I simply want some books and my property to come back in from Philly and I will probably be good. Please ship letters.”
Please ship letters of assist and books to Biggs on the following deal with:
JOSEPH BIGGS 26257-509
FCI Talladega
P.M.B. 1000
Talladega, AL 36160
On January 6, 2021, Biggs walked across the Capitol constructing for about 20 minutes after dodging bullets and flash-bang grenades police indiscriminately fired on the crowd. He dedicated no violent crimes in the course of the riot. Nonetheless, the federal government secured a conviction in opposition to Biggs and his co-defendants with unsubstantiated allegations that they dedicated sedition by conspiring to overthrow the US authorities.
Protection lawyer Metcalf, Pezzola’s lawyer suspects Decide Kelly, in tandem with the federal government, intentionally designated the Proud Boys terrorists to guarantee the BOP topics them to harsher circumstances than the murderers and rapists whereas incarcerated.
“The fear enhancements Decide [Timothy] Kelly added to their sentences is definitely a significant factor in how the BOP assesses these defendants,” Metcalf, Pezzola’s lawyer, advised TGP in an unique interview.
“Why do you assume they bought these classifications? To all people else, the terrorist label means nothing,” he mentioned, “however for the individuals inside these amenities, this implies the whole lot –the whole lot they should justify no matter abuses they’re doing to them.”
The BOP can withhold communications from inmates for months at a time unchecked and principally do “no matter they need” to inmates with out lawyer intervention once they make it unattainable for them to remain in communication with the skin world.
“I’ve not been in a position to communicate to Dominic since he’s been moved,” Metcalf mentioned. “I don’t even assume his spouse has been in a position to communicate to him since he’s been moved. They hold it in the dead of night while you get positioned, or they are often lackadaisical about it. I’ve different shoppers in federal jail who this has occurred to. It’s, sadly, too frequent.
While you’re sentenced, and also you’re a federally sentenced inmate, for those who go to something above a low facility, a medium or max, wherever you’re designated, they will make your life depressing. They will let you communicate to who they need to allow you to communicate to.
“They will put limitations on individuals having the ability to pay for something in your behalf. They can provide you actually one cellphone name a month — one cellphone name for half-hour per thirty days is what you will get. This occurs to individuals on a regular basis who had been sentenced the way in which that these guys bought sentenced.”
Metcalf warns that interviews from the jail may topic them to an much more harmful scenario.
“It might even worsen,” he mentioned. “In the event that they consider that the data that you’re acquiring — that he’s speaking to you and feeding you with the data, they might gag him from even chatting with reporters. They may shut down his cellphone. You haven’t any thought the extent that they will do.”
Infowars host Owen Shroyer, who was sentenced to 60 days in jail, spent the primary ten days of his sentence on the Oakdale, Louisana jail in quarantine in adherence with the BOPs Covid laws.
On a cellphone name from jail, Shroyer recorded a message updating his supporters on his well-being after enduring the time within the gap. He was subsequently penalized for the recording and thrown again in solitary confinement.
On Wednesday, an excerpt from a letter Shroyer wrote from jail on Nov. 9 was printed on his X account.
“I not have any entry to the skin world. I’m in lockdown all day. I solely get out for quarter-hour to bathe on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I get my mail and a few books, however that’s it. All of the mail is essential and particular to me at this level. I hope it retains coming,” Shroyer wrote. “I’ve completed 4 books and I’m midway completed with the Bible.”
“A prisoner of battle in my very own nation, locked up and tortured for my speech. In jail for my speech, then in jail inside a jail for my speech. The ravenous days and sleepless nights proceed.”
Shroyer will probably be launched from jail in 20 days. The others should tread rigorously as they face over a decade of incarceration.
Biggs lawyer Norm Pattis, who additionally represents Shroyer and Rehl, didn’t return TGP’s request for remark on the time of this publication.
As soon as given the inexperienced gentle by Pattis, TGP will proceed with publishing Biggs’ interviews from jail.
Jonathon Mosely, a paralegal working full-time on January 6 litigation and former J6 protection lawyer, contends the Bureau of Prisons does “not have authority to bar inmates from communication, however they’re doing it, and somebody must problem it.”
“[Oather Keeper founder] Stewart Rhodes carried out an interview in a three-way name, and so they suspended Rhode’s cellphone privileges for 3 months. That’s unconstitutional. To limit somebody’s First Modification rights, the federal government has to point out compelling state pursuits. If what they focus on poses no safety danger to the jail or the protection of the jail — if they don’t seem to be calling for a riot, arranging a jail break, hiring somebody to kill a witness or something like that — it’s unconstitutional for them to limit their capacity to speak to the media.
“What they’re doing is illegitimate, and members of Congress needs to be throughout it. They’re violating the regulation, and the federal government doesn’t consider in regulation. They do no matter they need and solely use the regulation to assault on a regular basis individuals. If one is overly fearful about how the system goes to reply, the easiest way is for his or her attorneys to boost it by a movement.”
“The courtroom will say, ‘The BOP doesn’t work for me; I’ve no authority over it.’ That’s bullshit.”
Mosely revealed that Decide Royce Lamberth’s orders prompted reform within the DC gulag, Washington DC Correctional Remedy Facility, and the resignation of the jail’s warden.
“Lamberth issued an order declaring the DC jail to be unhealthy and in contempt of the courtroom, warning they had been denying medical remedy,” he mentioned. “These federal district judges are making nationwide injunctions on many points; after all, they cease the abuse by the BOP. Lamberth’s ruling is a precedent.”
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