In the prison environment, Mr. Security for Trump includes keeping him separate from other inmates and screening his food and other personal items, officials said. If he is incarcerated, a detail of agents will work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, rotating in and out of the facility, multiple officials said. Although guns are strictly prohibited in prisons, agents are often armed.
Many New York state prisons and city jails are closed or partially closed, leaving large portions of their facilities empty, former corrections officials said. One of those buildings would house the former president and house his Secret Service security detail.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, declined in a statement to discuss specific “security measures.” But he insisted that federal law requires Secret Service agents to protect former presidents, who use sophisticated technology, intelligence and tactics.
New York State Prison System spokesman Thomas J. Miley said his department could not speculate on how to treat someone who has yet to be convicted, but said it “has a system in place to assess and provide medical treatment to individuals.” , mental health and security needs.” Frank Dwyer, a spokesman for the New York City Jails System, said recently that “the department will find suitable housing” for the former president.
While each count is punishable by up to four years in prison, Judge Merchan will order any sentences to run concurrently, meaning Mr. Under normal circumstances, a sentence of a year or less is usually served at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island, which houses the Department of Corrections’ seven prisons. (That’s where Mr. Trump’s former chief financial officer, Alan H. Weiselberg, 76, is serving his second five-month sentence for perjury.)
