{"id":2012434,"date":"2023-08-25T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-look-inside-georgia-jail-where-trump-was-booked-nothing-short-of-a-hulking-sprawling-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:43:57","slug":"a-look-inside-georgia-jail-where-trump-was-booked-nothing-short-of-a-hulking-sprawling-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-look-inside-georgia-jail-where-trump-was-booked-nothing-short-of-a-hulking-sprawling-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Georgia Jail Where Trump Was Booked: A Terrifying Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-look-inside-georgia-jail-where-trump-was-booked-nothing-short-of-a-hulking-sprawling-nightmare%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Look Inside Georgia Jail Where Trump\u200b Was Booked: \u2062&#8217;Nothing Short\u200b of a Hulking, Sprawling Nightmare&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>As Democrats continue their interference in the 2024 election and ham sandwiches everywhere fear indictments, there\u2019s a side story that needs\u200b attention.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it isn\u2019t serious to have farfetched charges against a former president of\u200c the United States and many of his associates creating a stain on \u2062the stability of the nation and its standing in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a peripheral scene that is concerning, perhaps tragic, and one other thing adding to the growing \u2062descent of the \u200cU.S. in the direction of the third world.<\/p>\n<p>That scene is contained in Atlanta\u2019s Fulton County Jail, the place \u200cwhere\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-details-terrible-experience-booked-fulton-county-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> \u2063 surrendered and posted a $200,000 bond late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulton County Jail is a disgrace.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis place is really nothing short of a hulking, sprawling nightmare,\u201d said CNN correspondent\u2064 Brian\u200b Todd, who examined the jail as the GOP front-runner in the 2024 presidential race made his way there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Known locally\u200c as \u201cRice\u2062 Street\u201d because of its address, \u200cthe jail, when \u200dopened in 1989, quickly faced problems, according to Todd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost immediately after it opened, it was overcrowded, had deplorable \u2063conditions and was just a horrible place to be,\u201d he \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust last \u200dmonth, \u200dthe Justice Department announced an investigation into \u200cthis place because of \u2018allegations \u2064of unsafe, unsanitary\u2062 living conditions, excessive \u200dforce and violence,&#8217;\u201d Todd said.<\/p>\n<p>While the listed jail capacity is 2,688 inmates, in April there were\u2062 3,221, he said, noting a jail population at about 120 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Seven inmates died in the jail this \u200cyear and 15 \u2064last \u200cyear, including a 35-year-old man named Lashawn Thompson \u2063who was \u200ddiscovered\u200d dead \u2064in his cell in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis lawyers \u2063and the medical examiner say \u200dhe\u200d died from neglect,\u200c malnourishment, other horrible \u200dconditions,\u201d Todd said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it was \u200dalso\u200b \u2014 he was found with bedbugs and\u200d lice \u2062just infesting his body,\u201d\u2062 he continued, noting that Thompson\u2019s lawyers released \u2063photos\u200c of his cell.<\/p>\n<p>CNN didn\u2019t post the segment\u200b on its website, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnn-dives-into-deplorable-conditions-of-fulton-county-jail-where-trump-will-be-arrested-grime-dirt-all-over-the-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite<\/a> \u2064published a clip on Thursday.\u200c Others shared the video on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CNN describes the\u200d \u201cdeplorable\u201d\u200c conditions at Fulton County Jail <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jDnXcTlfuV\">pic.twitter.com\/jDnXcTlfuV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ethan Harsell (@ethan_harsell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethan_harsell\/status\/1694840214621938104?\">August 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conditions are so bad at the Fulton County Jail that parts\u2064 of the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-woman-wanted-to-save-a-pet-before-surfside-condo-was-demolished-her-request-was-denied-but-rescue-attempts-were-already-made\/\" title=\"A Woman Wanted To Save A Pet Before Surfside Condo Was Demolished. Her Request Was Denied, But Rescue Attempts Were Already Made.\">crumbling structure<\/a> \u2063are being used by inmates as weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year\u200b at a public meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-look-inside-georgia-jail-where-trump-was-booked-nothing-short-of-a-hulking-sprawling-nightmare\/\" title=\"Inside Georgia Jail Where Trump Was Booked: A Terrifying Nightmare\">law enforcement officers wheeled<\/a> into \u200dthis public meeting a wheelbarrow full of shanks,\u201d Todd said. \u201cThe shanks were\u2064 taken, they say, by inmates who just basically grabbed crumbling pieces of the walls and fashioned shanks out of them to attack \u200cother inmates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He showed \u2062images and described the horrid conditions in the jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrime, dirt all over the place,\u2063 toilets overflowing, air conditioning broken, lice, bedbugs, other insects everywhere \u2026 absolutely horrible,\u201d the CNN correspondent said.<\/p>\n<p>Todd said Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat has acknowledged the problems.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u2064 the sheriff said the county needs $2 billion to build a new jail.<\/p>\n<p>That\u200c can be a tough sell, as there are other needs for county dollars, and getting taxpayers to underwrite jail costs can be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, from a cost-benefit\u2062 standpoint, revamping \u200cthe county\u2019s \u2063jail facilities might be cheaper than multiple lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not the real issue.<\/p>\n<p>Right\u200d or wrong, the U.S. has a high rate of incarcerations. If that\u2019s \u200bthe route to be followed, there need to be efforts to ensure prisoners \u2014 \u200cespecially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ice-nominee-worked-with-blm-to-push-false-claim-that-white-man-murdered-7-year-old-black-girl\/\" title=\"ICE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl\">county jail inmates<\/a>, many of whom are considered legally innocent \u2063until \u200dproven otherwise \u2063\u2014 \u2063have constitutional protections against cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution \u2064aside, it is the humane thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rudy-giuliani-surrenders-fulton-county-da-ominous-warning-american-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 \u2064defendants<\/a> of the Georgia election indictment folly \u2014 including \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mtg-vows-vote-donald-trump-even-jail-serve-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> \u2014 were allowed to bond out of \u2063Rice Street.<\/p>\n<p>One \u2064was \u2063not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/1-trump-ally-will-spend-time-behind-bars-georgia-no-option-get\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harrison Floyd<\/a>, \u200cleader of \u200bBlack Voices for Trump, must stay in jail because \u200bhe was supposed to have attacked an FBI agent serving him a subpoena, an incident in which Floyd \u2062said FBI agents did not properly identify themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Or is Floyd being \u200bheld for the crime\u2064 of Being MAGA While Black?<\/p>\n<p>A two-tiered justice\u200b system produces such thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/look-inside-georgia-jail-trump-booked-nothing-short-hulking-sprawling-nightmare\/\">A Look Inside\u200b Georgia Jail Where Trump Was Booked: &#8216;Nothing \u200bShort of a Hulking, Sprawling Nightmare&#8217;<\/a> \u2063appeared first on \u2062 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Democrats persist in meddling with the 2024 election and ham sandwiches tremble at the prospect of indictments, an overlooked side story emerges. The gravity of baseless accusations against a former US president and his associates, tarnishing the nation&#8217;s stability, cannot be undermined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":2012435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}