But in practice, even New York is conceding that the federal Secret Service can violate state prison policies regarding outsiders being in the prison. A dramatic example:
This is a dangerous idea. Violence-minded prisoners, outside Trump’s unit but in the compound, will spend all day thinking how they might get one or more of the Secret Service guns in their possession. But if the feds believe guns make a prison safe, and Trump agrees, the states will bow down and let them.
As for Georgia, it has a Republican governor and legislature. So they are even more likely to do anything the federal government says so long as Trump wants it.
And they’ve done it without legal access to cellphones, email, phone usage outside of designated times and both a monthly limit on usage and a short time limit per call, and only being allowed visitors for a very limited amount of time and only on designated days. All of those would be waved for TFG.
Now that was funny.
The feds don’t believe they make a prison safe; they believe it makes an ex or current president safe. And there most certainly are guns at prisons, the guards performing their duties inside prison just don’t carry them on their person outside of a serious riot for obvious reasons. You’re making it sound like TFG would be held in general population with secret service agents surrounding him while they’re surrounded by prisoners. That’ll never happen. Prisons already have facilities for inmates who are at risk to other inmates or who pose a risk to other inmates. Worst case (for TFG) is he’s housed in solitary confinement, in a wing that has been cleared of all other prisoners to further increase his isolation from other prisoners.
True, but a mob boss doesn’t have to follow the complicated regulations that apply to securing official government secrets. He could decide that Luca Brazi will keep the nuclear football in his apartment.