Walking around doing absolutely no damage does not justify the hateful sentences levied against so many of those folks.

And the destruction of evidence by the Liz Cheney committee serves as additional basis for release them from prison.   In effect preventing the presentation of exculpatory evidence of simple sight seeing.  And constituting govt censorship. 

Furthermore, there's been some cases of the jailers and wardens inflicting tortuous punishments.  Another Dem abuse against US citizens.