experience. rice street jail is not a pleasant place. it is dirty, scary. reporter: last month the justice department launched a civil rights investigation following multiple deaths inside the facility. last year lasean thompson was found dead in his cell. his family says unsanitary conditions including insects and lice contributed to his death. even the sheriff agreed it was deplorable conditions like a third world country. reporter: three officials with the jail stepped down earlier this year after a preliminary investigation into lasean thompson s death. the sheriff acknowledges the poor conditions and says he welcomes the justice department investigation and he sought more than $2 billion in county funding to build a new sew jail. brian todd, cnn, washington. and welcoming ceremonies in south africa as the bric summit
tell cnn normally those booked at this jail are searched thoroughly by a jail deputy and at some point given a medical examination and a pretrial screening to determine if they can sign out on their own recognizance. but it is not clear if trump or the other high profile defendants will go through those steps. for a normal defendant, it would take hours to go through those procedures. but with these defendants? i don t expect trump to spend hours in this jail because the longer he is, i mean, it is a pain. it will be a hassle for the entire sheriff s department or at least those at the jail when the president is there, it will be a circus. reporter: if they didn t have bond agreements, donald trump and the other defendants might have been held in custody at this jail. which observers say could be a nightmarish experience. rice street jail is not a pleasant place. it is dirty, scary. reporter: last month the justice department launched a civil rights investigation into the fulto
but he risks his own freedom at this point maybe literally. and so to the extent that he can avoid any sort of potential violations of the terminology of that order, i think that that will be very important. whether he follows that advice is another question. perhaps this will motivate mr. trump to agree to an earlier trial date to free himself of these very restrictive conditions. and while trump of course is skipping the first debate, if he does appear in future ones, could what trump says on the debate stage potentially be used against him in some of these cases? well, anything that any defendant says pretrial can be used against them in court. which is why defense attorneys constantly tell their clients that they really cannot include the case whatsoever. mr. trump is in a very difficult position because a big part of his campaign is focused on the prosecutions that are being brought against him and on the idea that the doj, that the justice system at large, even the state just
facility. last year inmate lasean thompson was found dead in his cell, his family says unsanitary conditions including insect and lice infestation contributed to his death. even the sheriff agrees that it was deplorable conditions like a third world country. reporter: three officials with the fulton county jail stepped down earlier this year after a preliminary investigation into lasean thompson s death. the sheriff acknowledges the poor conditions and says he welcomes the justice department s investigation and he sought more than $2 billion in county funding to build a new jail. brian todd, cnn, washington. for more, let s bring in a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. katie, a lot of public interest obviously surround eging the details. clearly the goal to keep it as short as possible, but does that mean that former president trump will get special treatment especially compared to his other