I understand Club Fed is not as cushy as it is cracked up to be. Nonetheless, those convicted of nonviolent federal crimes generally hope for a minimum security prison like the ones in this list. An example might be FPC Alderson prison for females, where Martha Stewart spent 5 months in quiet reflection.
In Georgia, minimum security prisons are labeled as transitional centers, though there are a few county prisons that also have minimum security.
My contacts in the underworld over at Quora, say that Lee State Prison is the best medium security state facility, but that county camps get better reviews: “I was at Athens Clarke County the last 6 months of my sentence and it was sweet compared to Rogers State Prison, they fed you much better, I was able to get books sent in and I only saw 2 fights in that 6 months.”
WAPO reports some debate whether ex-Presidents can go to prison in practice, given the secret service protection they are entitled to. Chuck Rosenberg: “Probation, fines, community service and home confinement are all alternatives.”
So is a plea bargain. Josh Marshall:
What is far more important than specific punishments is an accounting: Trump admitting he lost the 2020 election, that he knew he lost and tried to reverse the result and that he was wrong to do so (add here a comparable accounting for the MAL docs case and the other crimes). He has to admit that the outcomes of elections are also final and that he has to respect those results like everyone else. It would have to be the kind of detailed and specific accounting that he couldn’t easily say a few days later he’d only made under duress. In so many words, Trump has to come clean and admit that the law is the law and he has to follow it like everyone else.
Needless to say, it is almost unimaginable that Trump would ever do anything like that. So, short of that, the law should simply take its course. That’s the other way the republic demonstrates who is in charge.
Republican Vice President Spiro Agnew never spent time in prison - but he copped a plea.
Related 2020 FQ thread: Would an ex-president have Secret Service agents protecting him/her if the ex-president goes to prison? A: Yes: see above WAPO piece.
Related 2023 politics thread: Hypothetically, if Trump flees the US, where would he go?