Trump will be sent to prison where the prisoner was eaten by bedbugs

Former US President Donald Trump has been charged with a fourth indictment and the place where he will formally be arrested is Fulton Prison, known for its terrible conditions.

One of the prisoners in it was eaten alive by bed bugs… Meanwhile, in the office of the district sheriff in the state of Georgia, where the fourth charge was brought against the former US president, they said that Trump and other defendants in the case were expected to appear in the local prison in Fulton. The sheriff’s statement says, writes CNN:

“Based on guidance received from the District Attorney’s office and the Presiding Judge, it is expected that all 19 defendants named in the indictment will be filed at the Rice Street Jail.”

The sheriff added that “the prison is open 24/7” so defendants can turn themselves in any day and hour until August 25th.

Of course, it is unlikely that a politician will be imprisoned in a prison cell. His stay there will be brief: the ex-president will be searched, photographed and fingerprinted, and then he will appear before the local court. A criminal charge of attempting to illegally influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was brought against Trump on August 15.

The Fulton County Detention Center was built in 1985 for 1,300 inmates, but has held more than 3,000 in recent years. A recent report by the Southern Center for Human Rights said that the conditions of detention there do not meet hygiene standards, which has led to outbreaks of Covid-19, the spread of lice and scabies. The prisoners there were very poorly fed and even suffered from cachexia, an extreme form of malnutrition. The long wait under these conditions proved fatal for some. Last week, a 34-year-old man, who had been kept in the institution since 2019, was found unconscious in the cell of the medical unit of the isolation ward. He was resuscitated but later died in the hospital, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said. This year, he became the sixth person to die in the Fulton County Detention Center.

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