Rights Groups, Dems Step In To Help Accused Capitol Rioters After Learning They’re Under Lockdown 23 Hours A Day

“More than a year ago, about 1,500 men and women at the D.C. jail were locked in their cells for 23 hours a day to halt the spread of the coronavirus,” The Washington Post reported, adding that most of the inmates housed in the jail have yet to stand trial or be convicted of any crime. “Such extreme confinement has been adopted at other jails and prisons during the pandemic as a temporary, last-ditch measure. But the District’s lockdown differed in a crucial way: It never ended.”