# If Donald Trump is found guilty, will he get Secret Service protection in prison? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 10, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272 "2023-06-10T02:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/1 "2023-06-10T02:49:05Z")
Title kinda says it all. Ex-presidents get lifelong secret service protection. So, if Donald Trump ends up in prison will there be Secret Service agents posted 24/7 outside of his prison cell? (assuming Trump is convicted and sentenced to prison) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/2 "2023-06-10T02:59:11Z")
There has been a couple of threads on this, [here for example](https://oards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-secret-service-go-to-jail-too/981352/6). Whether Trump gets secret service protection would be up the the Biden administration and the Secretary of Homeland security. I think by far the most likely scenario due to logistics involved is that Trump would get house arrest. Not perfect justice but take what you can get. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/3 "2023-06-10T03:05:10Z")
FYI: Your link is broken (missing the “b” at the beginning) Still time to fix it. Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Seren359](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@Seren359](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seren359)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/4 "2023-06-10T11:12:38Z")
Does anyone really believe that the gubbernment are going to put Trump in prison? If you do, I have a Nigerian prince with a trunk box of money that I can put you in touch with. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/5 "2023-06-10T11:43:22Z")
I figure the moment a _Guilty_ is handed down, his head will explode and that will be that. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/6 "2023-06-10T12:12:21Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > his head will explode and that will be that Not for the cleaning staff. Could the judge order that a hole be cut in a tarp and his head poked through it before the verdict is read? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/7 "2023-06-10T12:16:56Z")
Worst case, IMHO, he’d be sent to a minimum security prison. White collar criminals. Cell phone jammers secreted all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/8 "2023-06-10T12:31:59Z")
This is the Undiscovered Country. No precedent exists, and no clear statement can be made. All too bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/9 "2023-06-10T13:08:42Z")
If they put him solitary in a SuperMax, they probably don’t need to bother with Secret Service protection. Robert Hanssen’s cell in Florence CO is available now. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/10 "2023-06-10T13:25:24Z")
As a side question how does the SS manage the details for each former President? The have to get time off for sick days and vacations and such. Do they have a couple of teams they rotate in on a schedule? I mean, can you imagine being assigned to Trump, and your job is to just sit outside his cell for 12 hours a day? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/11 "2023-06-10T14:21:59Z")
For $150K/year plus fully paid medical and pension benefits, I can think of worse jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/12 "2023-06-10T14:25:56Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Ex-presidents get lifelong secret service protection. Until they don’t. None of this is written in stone. It’s left to the discretion of the executive branch which will probably defer to the recommendations of prison authorities. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/13 "2023-06-10T15:53:51Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I mean, can you imagine being assigned to Trump, and your job is to just sit outside his cell for 12 hours a day? My parents attended public high school in the wealthy part of Chicago during the heyday of The Mob. Two of their classmates was kids of a well-known Big Boss. They came to school by chauffeured bulletproof Cadillac. Two goons sat right outside their classroom(s) all day long on stools the school graciously provided them. Boring work. Probably paid OK. ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/14 "2023-06-10T18:00:41Z")
Was the principal really likely to tell the Boss “no”? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/15 "2023-06-10T18:23:06Z")
Depends entirely on how fond he was of his entrails. ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-is-found-guilty-will-he-get-secret-service-protection-in-prison/985272/16 "2023-06-10T20:46:05Z")
Didn’t need a pair of cement galoshes?