A federal judge overseeing the case of Cole Allen, who is accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump and other top officials, issued an apology to the defendant on Monday for his current living conditions.
“I’m sorry,” Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui told Allen,accordingto USA Today. “Whatever you’ve been through, I apologize for the prior week.”
Allen’s attorneys reportedly stated their client is being kept alone in a cell and has been denied access to a Bible.
Faruqui told the government to provide an update by 9 a.m. ET Tuesday regarding plans for Allen’s detention within the jail in Washington, D.C.
If the jail decides to treat Allen differently from other inmates, Faruqui wants a full explanation as to why.
He highlighted the fact that Allen doesn’t have a criminal record and even compared his detention to prisoners who were held on charges related to the Capitol incursion on Jan. 6, 2021, stating that they were treated better than him.
“This is not the jail’s first go around with people engaged in alleged political violence,” Faruqui declared.
He added, “Pardons may erase convictions, but they do not erase history,” referring to Trump giving Jan. 6 defendants full pardons.
Faruqui made these statements despitereportsof Jan. 6 prisoners being held insolitary confinementfor 22 to 23 hours a day, suffering physical abuse, being forced to denounce Trump, and being told that “their views are the views of cult members.”
“They have been beaten by the guards. They are called white supremacist. They are denied religious services, haircuts, shaving, the ability to trim their fingernails,” former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, said back in 2021.
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