State Sen. Tim Kraayenrbink is the co-sponsor of a resolution that compares a Washington, D.C., jail to a Nazi concentration camp, but he asserted on Saturday that the measure is really about getting a speedy trial for those arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“The main reason I put my name on that is that a lot of these people have been in jail for more than two years,” the Republican from Fort Dodge said during an Eggs and Issues forum.

“You charge people and bring them to trial,” he added. “You don’t hang on to people in prison for two years.”

“You are by law guaranteed a quick and speedy trial,” he said.

Kraayenbrink was asked about Senate Resolution 8 during the forum.

It was introduced by Kraayenbrink, along with these five other Republican senators: Kevin Alons, of Salix; Dennis Guth, of Klemme; Sandy Salmon, of Janesville; Cherielynn Westrich, of Ottumwa; Brad Zaun, of Urbandale.

The resolution calls on the federal government to investigate the District of Columbia Jail where some of the people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack are being held. It calls for the arrest of officials running the jail.

The eight page resolution states that “many of the prisoners from the Jan. 6 incident have been forced without trial to endure jail conditions for an unnecessary period of time, based on their crimes, that are far worse than what most convicted murderers and rapists have to endure, and would rival those conditions of the most notorious concentration camps of World War II, the gulags of the former Soviet Union, the prison camps of Communist China and the torture camps of North Korea.”

Kraayenrbink said he believes when the inmates are finally released, they will sue the government for millions of dollars.

“My personal opinion is that these people will be multi-millionaires when they get out,” he said.