Will Trump Be Safe in Jail?

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

(Note:  The title of this blog posting, "Will Trump Be Safe in Jail?," was borrowed from an article in The Daily Beast, an internet news site, by Justin Rohrlich, which ran three days ago on May 6, 2004.  It was a speculative piece exploring the possible consequences for Donald Trump if Judge Juan Merchcan ultimately makes good on his threat to "consider" jailing Trump if he continues to flaunt the gag order imposed by the judge in Trump's New York "hush money" trial.  The speculation from this point forward is my own.)

In the event that Donald John Trump is ultimately ordered to spend some actual time incarcerated in a jail, will he be safe?   That's a silly question.  He's a celebrity who will be dragging along a very professional, taxpayer-funded, private security detail.  We should all be so safe!  That's not to say that I believe it will ever happen, because I do not, but if it did, the day or two that Trump would be required to spend on the inside would be a circus of secret service agents, lawyers, make-up artists, food vendors, food tasters, celebrity visitors, and God knows what all.

A better question would be:  Should Donald Trump be safe in jail?  Or, perhaps:   Shouldn't everyone be safe in jail?  Or:  Why should one old, tired, and gaseous politician with lots of money and power be treated any differently that some eighteen-year-old black kid who was sent to prison by a racist judge in Missouri, Oklahoma, or Mississippi for failure pay a court fine?

If our courts and our prisons treated everybody with fairness and basic human dignity to the point that only real criminals faced incarceration - and even they were safe - then celebrity safety would be a non-issue.

A multi-tiered justice system is, by definition, unjust.  If celebrity criminals were required to spend their time in real prisons rubbing elbows with the least among us, things would begin to change in a hurry.