EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Orgs Ask Bondi To Investigate Neglect Of Pro-Lifers Imprisoned By Biden

WASHINGTON — Conservative and pro-life groups are calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate reports that pro-life activists imprisoned by the Biden Justice Department were neglected, while trans-identifying prisoners were given special treatment.

In a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire, the coalition highlighted former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s interview with the pro-life prisoners, who Donald Trump pardoned on his fourth day in office. William Goodman, one of the prisoners, alleged to McEnany that he was mistreated while in prison on Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act charges brought by the Biden Justice Department.

“William Goodman, unjustly sentenced to 27 months in prison, alleges that he was kept in a condemned unit and suffered from neglect while in prison, going two weeks without toilet paper,” reads the letter, led by Advancing American Freedom’s Paul Teller. “Meanwhile, Mr. Goodman alleges that other prisoners, suffering from gender dysphoria, were provided with dresses, mascara, lipstick, and perfume, as requested.”

“While Mr. Goodman’s allegations are shocking, they are not unsurprising given the Biden Administration’s gross mistreatment of pro-life Americans,” the letter continues. “We request that you conduct a full investigation into these, and other allegations of mistreatment made by FACE Act prisoners.”

CatholicVote, Live Action founder Lila Rose, Students for Life, and Liberty Counsel also signed onto the missive, sent Friday to Bondi.

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“We went over two weeks without toilet paper,” Goodman told McEnany in the interview. “And some of the guys mentioned that some of the men who were there with gender dysphoria, wearing dresses, could get mascara, lipstick, and perfume — but we couldn’t even get toilet paper or basic needs. So there was a lot of neglect.”

Last year, Goodman suffered a serious head injury while he was imprisoned in Danbury, Connecticut’s Federal Correctional Institution. He told The Daily Wire that he fell off the top bunk in his cell, which did not have guard rails, and landed on his head.

After a trip to the emergency room where he found out he had fractured his skull, he said that he was sent back to prison overnight even though he said he was still feeling severely dizzy and nauseous. Goodman said that he was only given Tylenol and some anti-nausea medication.

“I just feel dizzy and abandoned and sore and sick. But it could be worse…mostly I stay in bed and drink water and take meds and try to sleep,” Goodman said. “But I can’t sleep. It is like a cruel torture. My left side of my head is like a constant migraine that seems to bang all night. Plus the loud prison noise and bright lights add to the turmoil. And the uncomfortable beds and no pillow.”

Heather Idoni, another former pro-life prisoner freed by Trump, also said that she was mistreated by federal agents during her time in custody. Idoni, 60, was convicted in three FACE Act cases across the country, including one in Washington, D.C., for which she was sentenced to two years in prison.

When she was sentenced in Nashville over a peaceful sit-in at a Tennessee abortion facility, she said the U.S. Marshals who had been bussing her from prison to prison had treated her cruelly. In one instance, Idoni said that some marshals had put chains so tight around her waist that she struggled to breathe when she sat down, and that one marshal told her she would tighten it more if she complained again.

During her time in federal custody, Idoni had three stents put into her heart, which was complicated by the fact that she was ferried around to at least eight different prisons.

The treatment of the imprisoned pro-lifers has already received scrutiny from federal lawmakers, including Republicans in the House Pro-Life Caucus. Led by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Andy Harris (R-MD). They wrote to the U.S. Marshals Service and Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding answers on the treatment of Idoni and Jean Marshall, 77, who was also imprisoned over the D.C. protest.

Marshall was reportedly denied hip surgery, despite increasing pain in her right leg and difficulty in walking.

Lawmakers also hope to probe whether the Justice Department and FBI violated the First Amendment rights of pro-life protests. Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has repeatedly demanded that the two entities keep all records of the prosecutions.