Alex Jones’ Co-Host In Jail Lockdown ’23 Hours a Day’

Infowars host Owen Shroyer has allegedly been put in solitary confinement for “23 hours” a day whereas serving a sentence tied to his involvement within the January 6 riot.

An replace posted on his X, previously Twitter, account, reads: “Owen will stay in solitary confinement till 11/28 on the earliest. At the moment his regular privileges shall be reinstated. For now he’s solely in a position to talk through mail. Regardless of 23 hours a day of lockdown, he stays in good spirits. ‘I am as mentally robust as ever.'” It’s unclear who posted on Shroyer’s account.

In September, Shroyer was sentenced to 2 months in jail for collaborating within the January 6 riot, after he admitted to main a march to close the highest of the Capitol’s steps, however didn’t enter the constructing. He pleaded responsible in June to illegally getting into a restricted space—a misdemeanor punishable by a most sentence of 1 yr behind bars.

Whereas he didn’t enter the Capitol himself, prosecutors stated his followers did and that he unfold election disinformation and “requires violence” within the weeks main as much as January 6, citing an Infowars video that included a graphic of Shroyer and Alex Jones calling for a march on the Capitol.

Current updates from the account have put out varied claims—none of which Newsweek has been in a position to confirm—concerning his stint in jail. On November 14, the account alleged Shroyer went “a number of weeks” with out chatting with his lawyer.

The account says the right-wing pundit has been taken to solitary following the publishing of a “assertion from jail” recording of a phone call made by Shroyer to the account on October 31. Shroyer stated that he hoped to “pull the unimaginable” and host his personal radio present from contained in the federal jail.

Newsweek is working to make clear the declare that Shroyer has been put in solitary confinement

Norm Pattis, his lawyer, informed Newsweek that Shroyer “is outwardly as soon as once more being punished for speech. I’ve reached out to jail officers for an evidence. Silence. I am calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to intervene. The Oakdale jail is in his district.”

Shroyer’s account additionally stated, on November 1, that it’s going to “launch additional info as soon as we’re one hundred pc sure that it’s going to not end in additional punishment. Presently we’re compelled to maintain updates to a minimal for the sake of his well-being.”

Shroyer was allegedly earlier positioned in solitary due to coronavirus consumption protocol, which was described as “absurd” and “pathetic” by the account run in his title.

Since being incarcerated, Shroyer has been supported by these near Donald Trump. The previous president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., posted on X: “Is anybody watching how they deal with their enemies? Not violent criminals, these individuals are handled with dignity and respect, however merely those that would converse up loudly in opposition to the regime? That is dystopian habits and the government’s unfettered energy should be put in verify now!”

“Owen Shroyer is being extraordinarily mistreated in jail. None of that is justified,” conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong wrote on X.

Newsweek has reached out to the Federal Bureau of Prisons through e-mail for remark.