I don’t think those guys are “hostages.”
I do wonder if other people arrested that day (not affiliated with J6) and who were denied bail have been waiting as long?
I don’t understand why they were not provided the opportunity for bail. But the delays in court dates are more a demonstration of the “justice” system in this country. That doesn’t make them “hostages.” It makes “not special.”
They’re hostages in the sense that they’re being imprisoned to achieve a political outcome that has nothing to do with what they did or didn’t do on January 6th. Like hostages, they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And they’ll remain in prison until their persecutors get what they want (i.e. Trump and his movement permanently destroyed). Kind of like ransom if you think about it. Once Trump is out of the way these prisoners will no longer have any value to the deep state.