by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2025 Real World News
The shocking treatment of many J6 political prisoners is apparently continuing right up to and following their release following President Donald Trump’s pardons.
Some J6ers were moved at the last minute to remote detention facilities, leaving them “stranded in rural areas of the country, surrounded by farmland, with no cellphone, no money and no family members to take them home,” WorldNetDaily reported on Jan. 21.

J6 prisoner Zachary Alam, a former medical school student who was sentenced to eight years in prison, told WorldNetDaily reporter Alicia Power that he was being processed for release out of a rural Oklahoma prison he was transferred to last week.
“I’m in the middle of nowhere, in rural farmland Oklahoma,” Alam said. “They moved me here last week for no apparent reason.”
“I’ve got to get somehow, some way, to Philadelphia with no cell phone, no money, and no family to help. I don’t even have enough to get an Uber to Oklahoma City, which is at least 40 miles away. There is no Amtrak that leaves today, the next Amtrak available would leave on Wednesday for about $400,” Alam said, adding that he was released without even his personal ID. He said he had a paper ID from the prison.
Alam said three other J6 prisoners who were housed in the Oklahoma prison would likewise be stranded upon release.
Jonathan Mosley, who represented several J6 defendants, said his phone was ringing off the hook Tuesday as released J6 prisoners, including Alam, were stranded and calling for his assistance.
“January 6 inmates are scattered around at least 81 different jails and prisons nationwide,” Moseley told WorldNetDaily.
Meanwhile, many of the more than 1,500 J6 “hostages” pardoned by Trump were not immediately released.
“Attorneys are reporting that some jails released pardoned defendants quickly, but many said Monday was a federal holiday so they couldn’t process the releases until Tuesday or Wednesday. A few prisons changed position when attorneys pushed back,” Moseley said. “At least one jail refused to honor Trump’s pardons without a certificate of pardon with the individual defendant’s name actually spelled out on it. Attorneys are filing a flurry of motions with the courts and sharing examples and the results. Many judges are quickly issuing orders confirming that specific defendants have been pardoned and dismissing their cases. Attorneys are also debating whether to continue with appeals which might provide more complete legal relief.”
As a crowd gathered outside the the DC Central Detention Facility, infamously known as the DC Gulag, just two of more than two dozen J6 prisoners held at the facility were released on Monday after Trump issued the pardons. Reports from the scene say that, around midnight, a Metropolitan Police officer said: “I’ve given you literally all I’ve got. But no more are going to be released tonight, and tomorrow is a brand new day and we’ll see what tomorrow brings. I was told no more tonight. And tomorrow, I don’t know. That’s the best I’ve got for you.”
Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk urged family members of “J6 hostages” to showcase Trump’s executive order issuing the pardons to correctional officers refusing to allow their release.
“If you are a family member of a J6 hostage, go to the prison and show a copy,” Kirk wrote, with photos of Trump’s executive order. “They have to release the prisoner. Don’t let them delay – we demand immediate release! Bring them home!”
Matt Braynard, executive director of Look Ahead America, which sought to free protesters and draw attention to Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by U.S. Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd, told the Washington Examiner: “What’s needed next is for the new Department of Justice and congressional leadership to conduct investigations, hold the criminals who perpetrated this injustice accountable, and provide restitution to the victims.”
“I want to know who was behind this persecution,” added Brent Bozell, the founder of the Media Research Center and whose son was sentenced to 45 months for his role in the protest.
Bozell’s said his son was initially prepared to plead guilty, but resisted after the Department of Justice added more and more charges, which Bozell believes came because he and his conservative media watchdog group had been critical of Joe Biden.
“I want to know who chose my son because he shares my name. I want to know who gave the orders to throw the book against him — including inventing heinous crimes — because I supported President Trump,” Bozell wrote on X, adding, “I want them brought to justice. I want to see them in prison.”
Braynard said he not only wants an investigation into the investigators but is also pushing for a national holiday to celebrate Jan. 6: “We believe this assault on Americans must never be forgotten and are calling for the federal government to establish a national memorial and to designate a national holiday naming January 6th Patriot Day.”
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