Still in Custody

Remember all those violent criminals released on little-to-zero bail? Repeat felons, robbers, muggers, shooters, root beer battery offenders? And not just in Cook County, but across all sorts of blue state blue city $hitholes. Open up any media site and you'll find numerous examples. Hell, Crimesha just dropped the charges against eighty people arrested at the Art Institute a few weeks back.

But not if you're accused of a crime way back on 06 January 2021:

• The persecution of J6 political prisoners continues. Jake Lang, who has been incarcerated for three and a half years as a pre-trial detainee, has spent 800 days in solitary confinement for ridiculous infractions, such as accepting an interview with the media. Lang’s attorneys filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in April, alleging that he “continues to be held and transferred in violation of his constitutional and human rights.”

  Lang told me that the “FBI hunted us down like animals” after J6. He said he refused to take a 10-year prison sentence as part of a plea bargain offered to him, because “I don’t negotiate with terrorists.” During J6, he said the Capitol Police officers pushing back on the crowd turned it into a “human swimming pool,” with bodies stacked up three to five high on top of each other.

  Lang, who has now spent much of his 20s incarcerated, was arrested after he posted a video on social media of his participation at J6. He was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, civil disorder, accessing a restricted building or grounds, and violent entry or disorderly conduct.

  Although he has no criminal history, he has been denied bond twice. In contrast, convicted violent felons are being increasingly released on little to no bond around the country.

Three-and-a-half years in custody, over eight hundred days of solitary confinement. For what seem to be misdemeanor charges in any other circumstances.

It evidently doesn't pay to stick to your principles.