“They are feeding us turkey byproduct salad,” said 30-year-old James Grant on a phone call from the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia, where he has been held since January in pre-trial detention. — for 11 months
“I’ve heard from inmates that work at the kitchen that the bags of vegetables say ‘chicken feed’ on them.”
Grant is charged as Ryan Samsel’s co-defendant for his participation in Jan 6 protests.
He was supposed to start his first semester of law school on a merit scholarship but has been stuck in a literal cesspool—overflowing sewage and feces-flooded cells, moldy rotten food, inaccessible discovery materials, and hardly any resources to prepare for his looming trial in March.
“It has been a tough ride lately.”
Northern Neck Regional Jail was recently slapped with a $46 million wrongful death suit due to medical negligence and denial of care by people unrelated to Jan 6th.
The jail became the subject of controversy after another Jan 6 inmate filed a complaint against the Northern Neck Jail Superintendent Ted Hull and Attorney General Merrick Garland for rights violations back in April.
In an email exchange, when the lawyer asserted the jail was violating his client’s human rights Hull responded, “Then sue me.”
Three days after the complaint against the jail was made public, fourteen members of Congress sent a letter to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding an immediate investigation. Within 24 hours the director resigned, although eight months later the conditions in the jail have not changed.