January 6 political hostage Ryan Samsel could barely stand when he woke up on Thursday morning.
The same throbbing pain that pierced through his left arm in 2021, where doctors discovered blood clots, is surging through his massively swollen left leg.
Locked in the hole of the DC gulag, he calls the correctional officers for help begging to see a doctor to no avail.
The Supreme Court of the United States has long held that jails and prisons cannot deny essential medical care to people who are incarcerated, deeming medical deprivation to be cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
When Samsel realized he couldn’t stand on Monday, he screamed again for help asking to be taken to medical, but the nurse on duty was fast asleep and ignored his pleas.
The hole of the Washington DC Correctional Treatment Facility where January 6 defendants are held in unconstitutional pretrial custody is less restrictive than solitary confinement in other jails in prisons.
Inmates in the hole are allowed out of their ten-by-five dog cage size cell for about three hours a day and are allowed to step outside, into another small gage, for a few minutes to breathe in fresh air.
The limited movement is exacerbating Samsel’s deteriorating condition which he suspects is caused by another blood clot as the pain gets more severe by the day.
“I’m stuck in the bed because of the clot in my leg,” Samsel told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview. “I ask the guards to take me to medical nearly every day. They don’t care. It’s my judge who is at fault. I beg her, ‘Please, I’m really in pain!’ And she says nothing. She doesn’t care. She’s not going to do anything about it. I don’t know what else to do. I mean… I really don’t know what to do.
“She has denied the outside hospital recommendations. I’ve been to three hospitals. Before I was arrested, I was scheduled for surgery. At three jail hospitals, my file was marked ‘urgent,’ saying I needed surgery and blood thinners.
“I am dying little by little. I am in lockdown. I beg that you get the public to please call my Judge Tia Cobb, the DC Marshal or the jail. I can’t even walk. I need emergency medical attention along with the surgery that will help restore the blood flow back to my heart from my left arm due to the long-standing clots. I have scar tissue that needs to be removed. I truly am in fear. I can’t feel my leg and the jail won’t send me to the hospital because they don’t have my medical records.
“I am unable to reach my lawyer Stanley Woodward and don’t have the money he needs to file an appeal to the judge to receive medical treatment. So, I am stuck.
Samsel has a history of suffering from blood clots. In March 2021, two months after he was apprehended by the FBI, he received a medical examination for a cist on his chest that was oozing with blood while detained in a Lewisburg, Virginia jail.
Doctors in the Virginia correctional facility told him to follow up with a specialist to determine whether the cist was a malignant tumor or cancer.
Instead of scheduling an appointment with the specialist, Samsel was then transferred to the DC gulag, where he was brutally assaulted by correctional officers. Following the beat down, he lost vision in his right eye and began suffering from seizures. He was taken to the emergency room where doctors found a blood clot in his arm.
He was then transferred to Philadelphia jail where he was locked in a “hard cell” and starved. Another J6 defendant, Zachary Rehl, housed on the floor above him would send him food and coffee to sustain himself from a rope through the toilet.
Samsel initially called TGP last week in good spirits to address claims that the viral photos published by TGP, where he is seen locked in a broom closet, are bogus. But his health has taken a severe turn for the worse since last week.
Now, back in the DC gulag, he and his family are calling on our readers to put pressure on his judge to do the right thing.
“I’ve been in the hole since I was transferred back to the DC 45 days ago. It’s very small,” Samsel said. “They let us out of our cells only a few hours a day. Honestly, compared to what I have been through in the past, it’s better. I wake up with roaches and mice. Once in a while, you’ll get a visit from old Henry, a big old rat. But he is not a bother, he’s chill.
“I have asked for assistance from every organization that says they help J6ers. So far, I have been denied. [J6 defendant] Jake Lang is down here in the hole with me. I asked him for help and he said he would try.
“I have no clue what to do. If somebody can help me, anybody, I just need medical attention. If Congress sees this please help me get to a hospital. I was so desperate I even called my judge’s chambers and she refused to ask the jail to see me. This is an emergency.”
If Samsel doesn’t see a doctor soon, he could die any moment, contends legal nurse consultant Jen Olsen.
“As a frontline nurse, I have witnessed the positive and negative outcomes of patients who develop blood clots. When blood clots are identified and immediately treated with mediatizations, the life expectancy of a patient will increase. When a patient is denied medical treatment for a blood clot, it could lead to stroke or pulmonary embolus in the lungs, both easily resulting in death,” Nurse Wendy Olson, RN, MSN-RA, wrote in a Nov. 30, 2022 letter to Judge Cobb.
“Once it’s identified it has to be treated or you don’t know when it can move and result in the death of your patient.”
Olson has not been able to verify whether Samsel’s attorney has provided the judge with the letter or the judge has refused to act despite her warning.
Samsel’s situation is not an anomaly or aberration in the prison system. Every defendant that is sick or reliant on medications or medical treatment is given a death sentence in prison, contends legal nurse consultant and bioethicist Wendy Olson,
“This is a systemic issue in every bureau of prisons across the United States. J6ers have contacted me from the East Coast to the West Coast about the BOP refusing to give them medications, even chemotherapy,” Olson told TGP in an exclusive interview. “Because the DOJ is failing to provide their life-saving medications, they might as well have been sentenced to death. The medications we take for granted — those who need cholesterol medications are at risk for stroke, and blood pressure medication is put at risk for heart attack. One who was arrested after he had already been diagnosed with cancer, had not received treatment and by the time he was released from prison the cancer had metastasized.”
In April, the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs filed a class action lawsuit against the DC Department of Corrections for depriving inmates of medical care.
“Each of the individuals named in the lawsuit has suffered serious harm due to dangerous and systemic deficiencies in the D.C. Jail’s health care system, ranging from failing to biopsy or otherwise diagnose a mass in a patient’s testicle for more than a year to repeatedly failing to provide vital medication to a patient with chronic heart failure. One patient has been nearly blind for the duration of his incarceration because the jail has failed to consistently provide him with the medicated eye drops and prescription eyeglasses that he needs to see,” according to a statement issued by the WLC.
Samsel is not yet a plaintiff in the complaint.
started a weejkt letter from home, wrote everyone that was imprisoned found out I was nurse asking health questions medical issues. offered to help pro bono for he medical aspect bc I am a legal nurse consultant, work with attorneys and go through the medical records identify neglect anything that has to do with the human body, where the atty knows everything about the law a legal nurse knows everuthing about the medical aspects.
Systemic.
Its black hole. These attorneys could be doing more for their clients and their not — they’re not. provided analysis of their medical history. put cases as aprt of it so atty could see cases similar cases to his client. I did everything for their attorney and my knowldege tnothing ever became of that work that id.
attys took an oath to advocate for their clients and they are not advocating as they are supposed to. If you look at the judges, i don’t see any that are impartial. Justice not blind.
Already wrote the judge. that letter was to her on Nov. 30, 2022, over a year ago.
Judge Tia Cobb
Nurse Wendy Olson, a masters of science in nursing and masters in bioethics and healthcare policy. had a couple of j6ers that have contacted me about being denied lifesaving medical treatment and medications.
The withholding of medical treatment has now resulted in the formation of a blood clot of which he is not receiving treatment. Given permission to release it. Did not have the opportunity to review his medical record, my knowledge.
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I have blood clot issues. I was seen by 3 different surgeons who scheduled surgery. These doctors were of the government’s picking.
the reason I I was transferred to Philadelphia FDC was for medical, and like I said I was placed on the 8th floor the shu or hole, and while awaiting for surgery I was put in that cell everybody seen because I was fishing food and coffee from another jan6 inmate named Zack rehl, so in order to stop me from talking to him they put me in paper its paper sheets and paper cloths beside your underwear so you don’t tare it up to use as a dishing line like I did. I told my judge in a court filing in Aug of 2022 and that is why I was moved to Brooklyn i never received my medicine, blood thinners and
I was told by William Shipley he filed the motion to get me medical but when I asked the judge like me she could not reach him he was busy a he lied and never filed it. He raised money in my name and did nothing but lie using the picture of !e and I never claimed that was Brooklyn he did not me and that is one other reasons I fired him. I beg nobody consider what bill Shipley post unless he knows what he is talking about we need help and he is only trtying to gain money by putting us down calling us piers and that we grift of people!
I went to the capital that day because I lost everything. I was a barber and the lockdowns were killing us, the small guy, and I believe that’s what it was meant to do.
My friend from Atlas Gym refused to close his doors and so that became my new hang out.
I went with reachel genco who is pro life like myself for personal reasons.
if he gets the money he will help me get a lawyer
I pray so hard I beg him please my leg hurts so bad I have a condition that I get blood clots.
my lawyer never helps me I don’t have money to pay him I ran out so he doesn’t do shit.
The judge even tells him why is he letting this happen to file a habas and she will approve it.
To get me medical treatment I need surgery 3 different surgeons recommended it and now look because I have not got treatment I have another blood clot
please tag trump
when MTG called the Philadelphia jail after she saw that they beat a kid to death,
they did same to him as me, leave you cuffed and let your celly beat you they killed the poor Kidd
this shit is real I do t know why ppl think its not.
the NAACP even reposted my picture of me in cell and said this is America prisons. we reached a lot of ppl now
I was trying to get my judge letters before my verdict date
I have a blood clot in my leg and my judge denied my request to get medical care. I called my judge today and begged her for medical.
If this clot breaks off and I don’t wake up bc that happens
I was supposed to call Jim Hoft today, but I am not well. I have this clot and it hurts. I have a condition where I clot real easily. I hope my lymphodema doesn’t return boy that would suck my judge won’t help me!
Why? I’m human aren’t I? Maybe they are not. I would help anybody and my conduct on video shows that.
My wife was homeless and we got no help from anybody.
A J6 advocacy group offered to assist Samsel with paying for his medical treatment, but rescinded the offer when he refused to denounce another J6er he is housed with in the DC jail.
I can’t even sue for my assaults.
Judge Cobb denied the suit without a hearing.
My lawyer at the time, Bill Shipley, did at least try to file a civil suit and my judge denied.
I don’t even get food money half the time.
I dislike Freedom Corner nobody but a few ppl are allowed to call it. so how free is the corner?
‘m stuck in the bed because of the clot in my leg so if you like to email me I hear from anybody that would be cool.
A member of Samsel’s family who asked her name be withheld said she has persistently fought with Samsel’s attorneys and the US Marshalls to provide him with life-saving treatment.
“The pain is severe. The nurse who was on call was sleeping and just ignored his yells!” Samsel’s loved one told TGP in an exclusive interview. “The next day, he tried again to get help and they said they would not give him any treatment. The doctors and nurses need medical records transferred over to them to find out his condition. I have fought with his lawyer to send medical records over to the jail. The US Marshalls aren’t doing anything — we’ve gotten into a screaming match on the phone saying that they can’t help and want nothing to do with it. He is under US Marshall custody. I told them, ‘If anything happens to him it’s going to be on your hands.’”
** And please call Judge Jia Cobb and demand she allows Ryan Samsel to receive adequate medical care.
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