October 10, 2021
NEWS
Federal Judge Finds DC Jail Officials in Contempt, Demands Civil Rights Inquiry
By Julie Kelly October 13, 2021
By Julie Kelly October 13, 2021
In a major rebuke of the Justice Department and D.C. Department of Corrections, District Court Judge Royce Lamberth today found the jail’s warden and director of the Department of Corrections in contempt of court for refusing to turn over records related to the care of Christopher Worrell, a January 6 detainee who suffers from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a broken hand. He has been incarcerated under a pre-trial detention order sought by Joe Biden’s Justice Department and approved by the court’s chief judge since his arrest in March; Worrell has been in the D.C. jail used specifically to house January 6 defendants since April.
In an order filed after the hearing, Lamberth referred the matter to the attorney general “for appropriate inquiry into potential civil rights violations of January 6 defendants, as exemplified in this case.”
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