Additionally I am quite aware of the push to plea bargain I nstead of eating up court time. But the defendant has the right to accept or reject the “deal”, if they want a jury trial should they take it to trial and they can’t be imprisoned for more time than stated in the statute. If found guilty, they risk being punished at the high end of the punishment scale. If they have accepted something premised on a “lie” and standing before a court admitting to it they are fools and worse liars.
My point is that the politically incarcerated are NOT the typical revolving-door jailbirds used to the system. Most of those have half-way competent attorneys and bond out quick. These foolhardy tourists were allowed down a path of entrapment, purposeful patsies for someones plan for a massive riot that the patriots wouldn't conduct.
Who refused Trump's request for National Guard for that day but used them to make D.C. an armed camp for months afterward? Who do the Capitol Police ultimately answer to? Who's abusing their political muscle to make examples of these protesters in order to sow fear of utilizing our First Amendment, denying them their rights and civilized conditions (tortured till they crack)?