(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Political prisoner Ryan Samsel has been confined behind bars without trial and has been moved to 17 facilities where he’s reportedly been beaten, tormented and neglected since his arrest for pushing over barriers and knocking down a police officer during the January 6, 2020, protests.
The Gateway Pundit received shocking photos from Samsel’s closet-sized prison cell at the FDC in Philadelphia, which showed the depth of the neglect. For five months, Samsel was confined to a bleak cell with nothing but a thin blue mattress and a light constantly on. The lack of bedding or clothing made the experience even more torturous.
Additionally, Samsel was held in a hard cell for several months without a proper designation and was denied basic necessities like sunlight and warmth. This treatment continued even when he was transferred to a different state. Moreover, a judge was trying to get in contact with him because “I wasn’t in a named cell,” he told the news outlet this week.
“They were missing me, and they were saying I wasn’t showing up to court. They were saying I wasn’t showing up to medical,” Samsel continued. “But they were pretty much keeping me in there. It was cold, the light was on, and there’s zero windows.”
When the 37-year-old was in Virginia, it was the same exact conditions and he was kept in a cell called a “booking hard cell.”
He was deprived of everything including access to a phone, commissary and no clothing because they think that “you’re going to hang yourself.” He said the windows in Virginia were covered by a black mat, so you weren’t able to see out the window. “And it’s constant nothing. It’s deprivation of everything.”
He told the Gateway Pundit that he was not allowed to have any books, letters or photos in his living space. He even had to use a yellow bucket as his toilet.
Samsel was convinced that the government was torturing him to make him betray the Proud Boys. The Gateway Pundit reported that he had been beaten and sent to lockdown to prevent him from communicating with anyone.
Despite many being held in torturous conditions for months on end, dozens of J6 prisoners have already been sentenced to extreme punishments for non-violent crimes.
Prisoner Jonathan Mellis cautioned Americans in 2022 that he and fellow J6 defendants in the “Patriot Pod” of DC’s gulag were being tortured by biased, cruel and violent correctional officers, sexually harassed and demeaned for their Trump advocacy in what the American Patriot Relief “called the most oppressive acts by our government against its own citizens in the history of our country.”
