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CROCKETT: " You know, I'm just a freshman, so I watched January 6 from afar, unlike what so many of my colleagues experienced. And the fact that, you know, they want to go in and these people, some of them which were attempting murder, and they want to have a conversation about how comfortable they are, they want to have a conversation about whether or not their iPads are working or if they have enough time on their iPads? This is what I’m hearing. As someone who’s been a public defender, let me tell you something. They know nothing about what bad conditions are. I’m going to clarify that after I can see with my own two eyes, but in the state of Texas we don’t even have air-conditioning in our prisons and we are, once again, in a state of Texas, so we had inmates die from overheating. You know, the idea that these folk somehow should engage in a real conversation now that January 6ers, mostly white folk, are saying that these accommodations don’t work for them, when black and brown folk have been trying to have a real conversation around what prison, accommodations should look like, if we are just going to be humane, is laughable. So I look forward to this visit and I look forward to reporting out on the accommodations and whether or not they are subpar."