Reply #19: The operative words are "usually" and "minimum" [View All]

[Divernan]

No one has any guaranty that they will be sent to a minimum security prison . And even if you are, that is no protection.
Who goes to minimum security lockups?
Well there are a lot of seriously violent criminals who have pled down their charges in exchange for deals to rat out their partners in crime. (And the Club Feds are saved for the hotshot white collar criminals and corrupt politicians, not political protestors).

The prison industry has been privatized either completely or in use of prison labor, and is a big money maker. Club Feds, where the guards wear blazers and the "inmates" have access to squash courts and bridge tournaments, are NOT moneymakers - unless you have some highly placed relatives or political contacts with the GOP, don't count on getting sent there.
And of course, you would only be sent there after being tried and convicted - so that leaves you for weeks or months in the local county jail with every variety of violent criminal.