Capitol Insurrectionists in Jail's 'Patriot Wing' Have Their Own Rituals and a Growing Fan Base

[Nevilledog]

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/akvwjp/january-6-rioters-jailed-together-forming-rituals-fanbase


At 9 p.m. every night, inmates in the so-called Patriot Wing of the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility reportedly stand at attention and sing The Star-Spangled Banner. You can even listen, if you want, to an alleged recording of it on the website called The Patriot Freedom Project.

Inmates had also started their own handwritten newsletter and passed it from cell to cell, one detainee told NBC 4.

Part of a letter from one inmate, Guy Reffitt, and signed “The 1/6 -ers,” was published by ProPublica earlier this year and entered into evidence in the court. It reads like a manifesto on behalf of the Capitol rioters.

“We have been labeled the enemy, yet clearly we see tyranny as the enemy,” they wrote. “While our lawyers do our bidding and the judges do their duties, we remain resolute, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and singing the National Anthem all in unison, loud and proud most every day. All because we are us, we are you, we are all Americans and in here, we have no labels.”

The “Patriot Wing” houses the most hardcore perpetrators of the January 6 riot, roughly 40 men in all.

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[UTUSN]

1. Good grief.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Without serious prison sentences

They'll be back, trained and organized. Sooner.

[Tomconroy]

3. They do have a label. The court's labeled them 'dangerous'.

That's why they are locked up.

[elleng]

4. Was afraid of that; should be held separately.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Why can't they break them up?

Do they usually allow terrorists to organize and plot while incarcerated?

[Midnight Writer]

12. Exactly. They are a criminal gang and should not have their own damn cell block.

[2naSalit]

6. Yikes.

[Walleye]

7. Yeah, they're so freedom loving they landed up in prison

[joetheman]

8. The happy humpers! nt

[Deuxcents]

9. I don't wanna get zapped but...

This situation is being handled by experts with fourth grade education skills. Why put them all together? It was the perfect storm for what’s happening now.

[Solly Mack]

10. Separate them.

[rockfordfile]

11. Nazi wannabes

[HAB911]

13. Prison has always been a breeding ground

to hone skillsets