This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
WASHINGTON – January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel has sounded an alarm via text message from his jail tablet to WorldNetDaily while detained in the general population of the Washington, D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility.
The J6 defendant, who like other "J6ers" has been held in pretrial detention for an extraordinarily long period of time – almost four years – said in a text sent Wednesday that a jail guard took away his mattress while spewing racial epithets. Immediately after this, he asked his family and this reporter to call the jail's command center to investigate the situation.
"Hey can you call LT brown at command center and ask why he took the mattress away and called me a cracker and is mad BC I had ppl call up there for my legal mail they wont give me," Samsel wrote. "He said ant no cracker getting a mattress and took my mattress."
Samsel is also blowing the whistle on what, ironically, could be called an election-fraud scandal of sorts inside the jail.
The law in Washington, D.C. – specifically D.C. Law 23-277, the Restore the Vote Amendment Act of 2020 – "allows District residents to vote while incarcerated."
"I have everyone writing grievance on the jail for not giving us [our] ballots and now [they're] holding my mail," Samsel wrote.
The notorious "D.C. Gulag," in which approximately 300 January 6 defendants have been held pretrial for nearly four years, is the same correctional facility in which Samsel was assaulted by jail guards weeks after his Jan. 30, 2021 arrest, after protesting in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Samsel's 2021 beatdown by jail guards resulted in the fracturing of his "orbital floor and potentially untreated brain damage," according to his medical records.
During another assault at another prison, Samsel explained that he was tied to a 4-point restraint chair and held backwards for approximately 12 hours while being brutally assaulted by jail guards who spat on his face and berated him with profane racial epithets.
Photographs of Samsel locked in a broom closet in a Philadelphia jail went viral across the internet, garnering attention from Gen. Mike Flynn and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, who called the torture of this defendant a "national disgrace."
As Samsel has stated, he was locked in the broom closet for five months with the light left on, after guards discovered he was being smuggled food and coffee through the toilet.
Fellow J6 prisoner, Marine Corps veteran, and Proud Boys leader Zachary Rehl has confirmed that he provided Samsel food, potentially saving his life when Samsel was being starved for nearly two weeks.
