Rikers Island jail ‘ready’ to receive Donald Trump, says Eric Adams
Rikers Island jail 'ready' to receive Donald Trump, says Eric Adams
Source: The Guardian
Tue 7 May 2024 14.57 EDT
The New York City mayor, Eric Adams, said the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail and its department of corrections were “ready” to receive Donald Trump, should the former US president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee make history and become the first former White House occupant ever put behind bars.
“They’re professionals,” Adams told reporters on Tuesday. “They’ll be ready.” Trump is already the first former president ever criminally charged, facing 88 criminal charges. But he could face temporary incarceration before any conviction, if he again violates a gag order in his New York trial on 34 charges concerning hush-money payments made as a form of election interference.
The former president has been repeatedly fined by the judge in the case, Juan Merchan, for social media outbursts. After holding Trump in contempt and fining him $1,000 for the 10th time, Merchan on Monday warned Trump the next step could be jail time.
“Mr Trump,” Merchan said, “as you know the prosecution has filed three separate motions to find you in criminal contempt. It appears that the $1,000 fines are not a deterrent. “The last thing I want to do is put you in jail. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well ... but at the end of the day, I have a job to do and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system.”
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