On Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the nation’s capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. In a 70-minute speech on the National Mall, Trump falsely claimed that the election had been stolen: “We won this election,” he told the crowd, “and we won it by a landslide.” Trump also urged his supporters not to accept the results: “You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,” he said. “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.”  “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” Trump said on stage shortly before the same crowd violently and un-peacefully descended on the Capitol building. Minutes later, at the end of his speech, Trump also warned his supporters, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”   The attempted insurrection played out on TV screens worldwide as rioters stormed the Capitol building, destroyed property, assaulted police, and stalked the halls of Congress hunting for elected officials. A large percentage of those who participated in the Capitol riot were eventually captured and placed in the notorious District of Columbia Jail, which is located just two miles from the Capitol. Unlike the countless predominantly poor and non-white detainees who have languished in the DC jail before them, the predominantly white and out-of-state MAGA rioters were immediately given preferential treatment.  “The DC Jail is even more segregated than the city it serves,” Andrew Beaujon wrote in The Washingtonian one year after the attempted insurrection.  Just 3 percent of the inmates, on average, are white; 87 percent are Black. What happens inside when you lock up dozens of overwhelmingly white men arrested as part of a radical-right insurrection? The jail’s overseers decided they didn’t want to find out. The Sixers—as they’re known to their faithful—were confined to a medium-security annex, away from other prisoners. The brass call the block C2B, or Charlie Two Bravo. Its 40 or so residents call it the Patriots’ Pod. Nevertheless, it was the treatment of the “Sixers”—in particular, the delay of medical treatment for Proud Boy Christopher Worrell’s broken hand—not the decades of complaints by other inmates, that finally got people to care about the conditions inside the DC jail. Having become a cause célèbre for the MAGA right, the Sixers were even visited in November 2021 by DC Council members and members of Congress Louie Gohmert and Marjorie Taylor Greene.  The Jan. 6 rioters sent to the jail complained to the court about the unsanitary living conditions, poor food, inadequate medical services; the lack of safety, recreation, case management, library services, and visitations. “After Jan. 6 defendants’ lawyers raised allegations of poor conditions at the Department of Corrections (DOC) facility, including a lack of access to medical care,” Madeleine Carlisle writes in TIME, “an unannounced review of the jail by the US Marshals Service (USMS) concluded there was ‘evidence of systemic failure.’” The report submitted by USMS was a scathing indictment of the deplorable conditions inside the DC jail, including lack of water, inadequate quality of food, and “large amounts of standing human sewage.” Following the report, USMS announced that it would be moving 400 detainees housed in the DC jail’s notorious Central Detention Facility (CDF) to the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Those housed in the less horrifying Central Treatment Facility (CTF), however, including the Jan. 6 rioters, were not moved. According to an official statement released by USMS on Nov. 2, 2021, “The US Marshal’s inspection of Central Treatment Facility did not identify conditions that would necessitate the transfer of inmates from that facility at this time. Central Treatment Facility houses approximately 120 detainees in the custody of the US Marshals Service, including all the defendants in pre-trial custody related to alleged offenses stemming from events that took place on January 6 at the US Capitol.”  In exactly two weeks, on Jan. 20, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America. He has gone on record saying it would be a “great honor to pardon the peaceful January 6 protesters, or as I often call them, the hostages … a group of people treated so harshly or unfairly.” Will Trump and the MAGA right continue to care about the conditions inside the DC jail and the treatment of its inmates after the Sixers are hand-plucked from that cesspit and given their freedom back? Let’s just say I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for that…  For those poor Black and Brown men and women who have been held inside the DC jail and who have complained about the inhumane conditions there—complaints that have continuously fallen on deaf ears—this is yet another glaring example of this country’s racist, classist hypocrisy. But it is also a chilling reminder that, for Trump and his MAGA supporters, the hypocrisy is the point: “Make America Great Again for us, not for them.”