Donald Trump will appear this Thursday at the Fulton prison in Georgia, United States. It is there that he will find out about the accusations against him in a process in which it is suspected that he tried to change the result of the presidential elections in that US state. Never before has a former president of the country been accused of committing crimes, but with this accusation Trump will be accused for the fourth time. And the place where he will be heard and arrested is famous in America for the worst reasons.
The Fulton County Prison is not as famous as, say, the one in Folsom, California, which has even been immortalized in song, but still, there is no shortage of people in the US who know about it. First of all, because of its unhealthiness. The country’s justice department even has an ongoing investigation into prison living conditions.
There has been talk for years about the number of bedbugs with which detainees, men and women, have to share a cell, and now it is a year since the death of Lashawn Thompson, which gave rise to the investigation. The 35-year-old’s family released photos of Thompson, dead in prison and covered in insects.
In addition, the US Department of Justice also intends to determine if it is true that this prison confirms the recurring excessive use of force by guards, violence between detainees and inaction in the face of health problems. Sheriff Pat Labatt will also be investigated for discrimination against inmates with psychological disorders.
When it comes to inmate numbers, Fulton County is also notorious for how crowded it is. It was built in 1989 to house 1,250 inmates, but currently has twice that number. In a fundraising email sent Tuesday, Trump criticized the prison’s overcrowding, describing it as a “humanitarian crisis” and “a violent prison.”
What’s more, the visit of the former president this Thursday to the hearing may mark a novelty with respect to the three previous accusations. So far, no court has chosen to fingerprint and photograph him with arrest numbers, but at Fulton jail, Sheriff Pat Labatt is in charge and has been advising that statute doesn’t matter.
Whoever is detained in that jail, even if they pay bail to get out free, takes a police photo before leaving. A photograph of the face, frontal and profile, where the inmate holds a plate with the file number. An image that Donald Trump will avoid making public.
If he does not want to be arrested, Trump will have to pay a bail of 200,000 dollars (184,000 euros). In addition to being released on bail, the former governor and current candidate for the 2024 presidential nomination is prohibited from contacting and intimidating other defendants or witnesses to the process, including on social media.
The Republican has a notorious history of attacking the prosecutors leading cases against him, including the district attorney in charge of this case, Fani Willis.
Trump affirmed that his “trip” to the city of Atlanta was not going to be to commit any murder, but to have “made a perfect call.”
The former president was referring to one of the main assets of the prosecution: the recording in which Trump asks the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to win in that state, with the aim of impeaching the then candidate. Democratic Presidential, current President Joe Biden, from the White House. The phone call in question was made on January 2, 2021.
Source: TSF
