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A Letter from the DC Gulag
Andrew Anglin
November 4, 2021
The following letter from 1/6 protester and political prisoner Nathaniel DeGrave, a podcaster who entered the Capitol, was published last week.
In it, DeGrave outlines the conditions of the jail, describing inhumane conditions which amount to torture.
You should read the whole thing.
You should read the whole thing.
Dear Fellow Americans -
I never thought I'd write a letter like this, but we're living in very
different times. This is my cry for help.
My name is Nathan DeGrave, and as a non violent participant at the Jan
6th rally, I've spent the last 9 months detained as a political prisoner
in pod C2B at the DC DOC...otherwise known as DC's Gitmo.
The conditions here for Jan 6ers have been inhumane. In fact, some
inmates are even begging to be transferred to GUANTANAMO BAY, where even
THEY have more acceptable standards.
Class action LAWSUITS are being filed against this prison; and even the
ACLU has gotten involved. Senators Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene
have since attempted to gain access to this facility and inspect the
conditions of the jail, only to be denied.
The vile filth of what has become our daily life is being illegally
HIDDEN from the members of OUR OWN CONGRESS.
So...let me tell you about what me and many of the other Jan 6ers have
been experiencing in DC's Gitmo. It is my hope that with MEDIA EXPOSURE
and the awareness of the American public, that SOMETHING may be done and
this never happens to anyone ever again.
OUR CONDITIONS
For the first 120 days in DC's Gitmo, Jan 6ers experienced DAILY
LOCKDOWNS for 23-24 HOURS before being allowed to leave our small 120
sq. ft cell. The PHYSICAL and MENTAL ANGUISH that results from this kind
of SEVERE ISOLATION has caused many people to go on a RAPID mental
decline.
As a result, a large percentage of us are HEAVILY MEDICATED with
anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs, which helps to cope with the
psychological and mental ABUSE we endure.
Many times, the little rec we DO receive is STRIPPED AWAY if our cell
isn't up to the standards of the guard on duty. This changes from day to
day. Jan 6ers have lost rec time and out of cell activity ANY TIME news
interviews about the jail are aired on TV, people speak up about our
conditions, or rallies are held in our name. We'll probably have a
lockdown upon the publishing of this letter. So I have already warned
those I know in advance..
Masks are WEAPONIZED and used against us, even though we NEVER leave the
facility. Officers have walked in with the SOLE INTENTION of needing to
write 20-30 disciplinary reports against Jan 6ers, which adversely
effects our chances of release and causes loss of privileges, phone time
and commissary. Masks need to be covering both the nose and mouth AT ALL
TIMES or we are threatened and locked down in our cells. Jan 6ers are
always respectful to the employees around us, but C.Os maintain the need
to invent reasons for discipline.
PRIVILEGED LEGAL DOCUMENTS have been CONFISCATED and gone missing from
various cells, and HIGHLY SENSITIVE discovery (video evidence under
attorney/client privilege) is watched by employees during our legal
calls.
Jordan Mink, for example, had all discovery TAKEN by ERT officers on
August 23rd despite the objection of his attorney. They handcuffed him,
searched his room, and then proceeded to take all video evidence in his
possession. Additionally, legal visits take 2-3 WEEKS or more to be
scheduled, leaving little time to discuss our defense and prepare for
trial.
The EXTREME medical neglect in this facility has caused a variety of
adverse illnesses and disease. Some show signs of scurvy. And some even
have Covid like symptoms, but medical personnel have refused to treat
it.
Christopher Worrell, for example, is an inmate with Cancer, who also
broke his hand in prison and requires surgery. Both have been completely
ignored. Federal judge Royce Lamberth got to the point where on October
12th, he filed contempt of court charges against the warden of the DC
DOC, claiming that Worrell's civil rights have been violated, and
demanding the U.S attorney general inquire further about his and other
possible violations.
Another inmate, Peter Stager, WAITED FOUR MONTHS to receive his CPAP
breathing machine, and has needed an MRI since spring, which has also
been ignored by staff.
The harsh, unlivable conditions of our unit has caused health hazards
that defy Department of Health regulations. And on at least five
occasions, RAW SEWAGE has overflowed our unit, causing human fecal
matter to flood the floors and rooms. That's also in addition to the
MOLD on cell walls, as well as the rusty pipes, and DIRTY WATER that
flows from these sinks. White rags TURN BROWN when exposed to the water
from our faucets.
We are undergoing SEVERE NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES and STARVATION. For
breakfast this morning, I received a tray of flavorless paste, two
slices of bread, and a slice of bologna. Lunches usually consist of rice
and beans, but we'll get cold chicken/beef patties if we are lucky. For
dinner, we are sometimes fed a diet of cheese sandwiches, and bologna
and cheese 4 to 5 times per week.
Without commissary, people like myself are FORCED TO STARVE. I suffer
from HEADACHES and NAUSEA on an almost REGULAR BASIS from the
malnutrition and constant hunger I am subjected to. I have lost ALMOST
15 POUNDS since I've been detained.
Our rights to personal hygiene are also totally neglected. Razors are
PROHIBITED, and inmates are forced to either go unshaved, and grow long
beards, or use a razor free cream that BURNS and IRRITATES the skin. But
many other jails have allowed the use of razors without incident.
Haircuts are also PROHIBITED from unvaccinated inmates. For me, it's
been nearly 9 months. I look VIRTUALLY UNRECOGNIZABLE in the condition
I'm in. I fear even my family would not recognize me.
Contact with the outside world, from legal visits to seeing loved ones
is HIGHLY RESTRICTED. After in-person visits, legal or otherwise, we are
forced to undergo humiliating STRIP SEARCHES, despite ALL visitors being
thoroughly checked for contraband. If it's a legal visit, we are placed
in a 14 day quarantine, with no out of cell time; EVEN IF your attorney
is VACCINATED and tests NEGATIVE for Covid. Visits with friends or
family members, for unvaccinated inmates, are NEVER ALLOWED.
As a result, many people have skipped critical meetings with their
council, and NEVER get an opportunity to see friends or family. VIDEO
VISITATION, while available to the rest of the jail, is RESTRICTED in
the Jan 6 pod. Mail is delayed for MONTHS, and phone calls are limited
to a MAXIMUM of pre approved 12 numbers. If there's anyone else in our
extended family or otherwise we'd like to call, we're pretty much out of
luck.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES, protected by the 1st amendment, are NOT provided to
Jan 6ers. Neither are in person classes or other activities available to
the rest of the jail. An inmate named Ryan Samsel, instead attempted to
organize his own bible study inside the pod, until he was viciously
BEATEN and LEFT FOR DEAD by correctional officers. He suffered a broken
eye socket and brain damage as a result of the vicious attack. He's now
permanently blind in one eye. On another occasion, Scott Fairlamb was
confronted by an officer in the middle of the night, and his life was
threatened, once the officer's body cam was disabled. Many, like myself,
are afraid they could be the next victim.
And last but not least, we experience racism from many guards on a daily
basis, being the ONLY WHITE REPUBLICANS in the entire jail. The false
narrative is has been passed around the jail and to corrections officers
that we are "white supremacists" (we are NOT). The inmate population is
predominantly black, so we are at risk being here because of this false
narrative. The guards are mostly liberal migrants from Africa who have
been conditioned to hate us, and hate America. Jan 6ers have been
mocked, beaten and ridiculed by guards for singing the National Anthem.
The Corrections Officers despise our politics and the love we have for
this country. At one point, an officer even yelled "FUCK AMERICA!", and
threatened to lock us down FOR A WEEK if we attempted to sing the
National Anthem again.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MY STORY
Finally, I feel like I should touch briefly on the government and
prosecutor's portrayal of who I am as a person.
No, I am not a terrorist, extremist or any of the other names I've been
called by the government. More than anything, I am a red blooded patriot
and I love this country more than anything.
I am being unfairly prosecuted and definitely overcharged. I never
assaulted anyone, destroyed property, or stolen anything. I walked
through wide open doors to enter the Capitol, along with my camera crew
hoping to get the rally on video. I was never even armed at any point
inside the Capitol.
Our goal was to make a documentary, and get likes and shares on social
media. Yes I wore a costume (that the prosecutor refers to as
paramilitary gear and body armor) but it was for the movie and was
nothing of the sort.
And yet, 9 months later here I sit, with 10 years worth of charges and
no hope for a future. The surveillance footage shows absolutely no signs
of assault, and despite attempts by media companies to get it released
to the public, the government has denied it.
I think that's because they are fully aware that this footage is
questionable at worst, and exonerates me at best. Please don't be fooled
by the media. I am a loving and peaceful person with no history of
violence.
This weaponized DOJ and their blatant resentment of my respect for
President Donald Trump is putting me in a situation that makes me feel
helpless in my current situation.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Despite me and other Jan 6ers experiencing these unthinkable conditions,
all of us remain POSITIVE and HOPEFUL that, in the end, JUSTICE WILL
PREVAIL. We maintain a LOVE for this country and the Constitution like
no other. The only thing keeping us going is our undying patriotism, the
camaraderie between one another and our faith in God.
Please...SHARE THIS LETTER with EVERYONE you know: friends and family,
senators, representatives, political organizers, civil rights groups and
media outlets.
The truth HAS to get out. And the jail MUST PAY for what they are doing
to this country's citizens.
As a result of this unlawful detainment the last 9 months, I have lost
everything. The successful business I spent 13 years of my life working
on, my apartment in Las Vegas, social media accounts with a lifetime of
memories...you name it.
The government has essentially CANCELLED ME. Not only that, but
following the arrest, my best friend of 12 years robbed my apartment,
stole my cat, and hacked my personal Instagram with 100,000+ followers.
Since then, I often go between feelings of hopefulness and moments of
depression. I wonder if I can ever recover from this, but I have to
remind myself to never give up.
There are major medical complications I now struggle with as a result of
the jail's neglect of my health since being here.
If there is any way I hope to recover, my only hope are the ones who are
reading this. I was on top of the world once upon a time, and that life
seems now only like a distant memory.
If there's anything you can do to help, I would appreciate anything at
all. Inmates here are being extorted with lack of nutrition, forcing me
to spend most of what's left on commissary which I can no longer afford.
I need desperate help with my legal expenses and just help staying alive
in here with commissary and all the expenses I still have on the outside
as my livelihood and life has been stripped away from me. Thank you for
any her you can afford, even if it is a few dollars it goes a long way
in here.
Sincerely and with love,
Nathaniel DeGrave
This is incredible, but hardly unbelievable.
We've been hearing these stories for 11 months now. It's hardly
different from what you'd expect. At least it's no different than what
I'd expect. This system is evil and satanic, it is run by Jews who
deputize the blacks in their sadistic agenda. So of course they're going
to starve people, beat them, flood them with poop.
It's amazing that the jail is staffed with African immigrants. They
clearly came to the determination that black Americans might be too
likely to feel sorry for the inmates, so they needed a foreign group to brutalize them. It's much, much easier to dehumanize people who you have
zero cultural or linguistic connection to. This has been discussed a lot going all the way back to the old shortwave radio days before the
internet in regards to the Democrats planning to send in UN
peacekeepers, or at least staff the US military with non-Americans.
With the censorship, not nearly enough people are talking about what is
going on in DC. Donald Trump himself refused to talk about it for many
months after the event. It doesn't really matter that he's talking about
it some now, because no one hears anything he says.
With Charlottesville, when they called people "white supremacists," mainstream Republicans apparently didn't think it applied to them. I'm
not sure who they thought the Charlottesville demonstrators were, but
they somehow managed to rationalize that they were different somehow.
Four years later, after nonstop bombardment, every white person in
America knows that "white supremacist" simply means "middle or working
class white person." If normal Republicans knew what was happening in
the DC jail, they would understand that this same treatment is planned
for them, and they might start taking things a bit more seriously.
Thankfully, Tucker Carlson is talking about it. On Wednesday, he had on Joseph McBride, a lawyer for several of the accused who has been vocal
about the fact that this is a purely political prosecution, and these
people are being tortured.
After the above letter was published, a judge ordered the jail
investigated. McBride says that the city sent in people to do a major
cleanup job in 24 hours, painting the walls and fixing the water and
food situation.
Bizarrely, when the inspectors went to the regular DC jail, they said conditions were so bad that the prisoners have to be moved. But
according to an article this week from the Washington Post, the special political prison is fine and not filled with poop, so the political
prisoners will remain there.
Never in American history have people been treated like this in America.
The closest thing would be the Japanese being put in internment camps
during World War II, but those were legitimate camps in California, not isolation cells.
A normal person believes that no one would be this cruel. But the Jews
will find people this cruel.
Understand: the conditions described in this letter are only the
beginning of the sadistic Jewish torture agenda. They are setting up concentration camps where much worse things will happen.
You all need to take this seriously. This is what awaits all of us.
Whereas I've tried to keep you all safe, tried to get you to use
security online so you won't be traced, that doesn't really matter
anymore. If you don't take the vax, you're being traced, even if you've managed to keep a good security profile online.
Brutal imprisonment and torture is the fate that awaits all of us if we
do not take the proper measures to ensure our safety and survival.
If you're still living in some kind of haze or delusion, and haven't
realized what is going on in this country, you need to snap out of it.
This is real and it is happening and you are next.
Copy and paste the letter and share it with everyone you know. Print it
out and show it to people. We need people to be aware of how serious of
a situation we are in.
F'ing violent criminals trying to overthrow American democracy
are your heroes, that speaks volumes.
Maybe you should defend BLM protesters as political prisoners
that were looting and attacking police while you're at it too?
98.6% wrote:
F'ing violent criminals trying to overthrow American democracy
American democracy was destroyed on November 4th at 4:00 AM.
are your heroes, that speaks volumes.
Apparently you support torturing prisoners.
Maybe you should defend BLM protesters as political prisoners
that were looting and attacking police while you're at it too?
Exactly ZERO of them are being tortured.
On 11/6/2021 5:34 PM, A Voice in the Wilderness? wrote:
98.6% wrote:
F'ing violent criminals trying to overthrow American democracy
American democracy was destroyed on November 4th at 4:00 AM.
In most states the in-person votes were counted first
the mail-in ballots last. Only a Trumpster would
consider counting ALL the votes anti-democratic.
Jonathan wrote:From the point of view of an European, the American system is hardly democratic. Two parties only, racing each other to be the most neolib, a
On 11/6/2021 5:34 PM, A Voice in the Wilderness? wrote:
98.6% wrote:
F'ing violent criminals trying to overthrow American democracy
American democracy was destroyed on November 4th at 4:00 AM.
In most states the in-person votes were counted first
the mail-in ballots last. Only a Trumpster would
consider counting ALL the votes anti-democratic.
Most states didn't stop counting in the middle of the night, throwing
out the observers, in order to figure out how many votes they needed
to manufacture in order to steal the election.
From the point of view of an European, the American system is hardly democratic. Two parties only, racing each other to be the most neolib, a weird system to elect Presidents and Senators.
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote
My name is Nathan DeGrave, and as a non violent participant at the
Jan 6th rally, I've spent the last 9 months detained as a
political prisoner
in pod C2B at the DC DOC...otherwise known as DC's Gitmo.
Actually, that's not really a location. He's in the DC Central
Detention Facility, probably awaiting a move to a federal facility.
CDF is a pretty nasty place to be, in part due to a lot of prison
changes passed by Republicans in the eighties and nineties. As
Newt Gingrich says,
"prison isn't supposed to be fun." Even so, it's a pretty safe
place even if not a very comfortable one, especially when compared
with the old Lorton
Reformatory which used to be the main holding facility for DC.
Guys like Nathan would have been beat up and raped within minutes
of arrival at Lorton.
They'll probably make it through the CDF without any injuries,
which is a lot better than prisoners in a lot of other places can
say.
They still have a chance to wind up at one of the privately-owned facilities that provide contract prisons to the Federal government,
after their sentencing. If they think the CDF is bad, just wait.
Nobody wants to pay money to make prisons
into places that actually reform people,
Because no matter how much you spend that doesn’t actually happen.
Not even possible with kids jails essentially because
only the worst of the kids end up in jail.
and so this is what we get. What they are seeing
right now is just the tip of the iceberg. Welcome
to consequences of the War on Drugs!
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