If the jury in Donald Trump’s felony hush cash trial finds him responsible, the US may face an unprecedented end result: A jail sentence for a former president, who is without doubt one of the world’s most divisive folks.
That will drive authorities to contemplate whether or not Trump, who’s entitled to lifetime safety by the US Secret Service, may serve time safely behind bars or whether or not alternate preparations must be made.
It’s a conundrum different nations have confronted.
PERU
The South American nation, beset by years of turmoil, has imprisoned so many presidents it has retrofitted a police academy to accommodate them.
The power on the outskirts of Lima at the moment holds two ex-presidents: Alejandro Toledo, who’s awaiting trial on corruption fees, and Pedro Castillo, who’s charged with revolt after trying to dissolve Congress in late 2022.
One other former president, Alberto Fujimori, was launched in December 2023. He was pardoned after serving 16 years of a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses. He spent his time behind bars gardening and portray.
Ollanta Humala, one other former president, served 9 months in pre-trial detention on corruption fees earlier than being launched on situation he report often to a courtroom.
In accordance with native media, the particular jail accommodates three apartment-like cells with out of doors terraces.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, one other former president, just isn’t held there: he has been beneath home arrest since 2019 whereas being investigated on corruption fees.
SOUTH KOREA
The nation’s solely feminine president, Park Geun-hye, seems to have obtained no particular therapy after she was convicted of corruption in 2018.
Park served her time in a single cell on the Seoul Detention Heart, the place she was topic to the identical guidelines and fed the identical meals as different inmates. She was allowed to observe tv through the day, however solely a single channel accepted by authorities.
She served practically 5 years of a 20-year sentence earlier than she was pardoned in December 2021.
Park’s predecessor, Lee Myung-bak, was additionally imprisoned on corruption fees. Two different presidents, Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, had been convicted for treason and corruption within the Nineteen Nineties.
BRAZIL
Brazil’s present chief, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, served a couple of yr in jail after he was sentenced for graft following his first 2003-2010 stint as president.
Allies say his time in a 15-square-meter (160-square-foot)cell on the third flooring of the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba imbued the leftist politician with a renewed sense of social justice.
He learn books on race, slavery and starvation, he has stated. Lula’s 2018 conviction was overturned the next yr, and he gained re-election in 2022.
He defeated far-right chief Jair Bolsonaro, who’s beneath investigation for allegedly plotting a coup after his loss.
FRANCE
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to jail in two separate instances, for campaign-finance violations and bribing a choose. Judges have dominated he can serve each sentences by sporting an digital monitoring bracelet fairly than going to jail.
Sarkozy, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, stays free whereas he appeals each instances to the nation’s highest courtroom.
His predecessor, Jacques Chirac, was given a two-year suspended sentence after being discovered responsible of corruption in 2011.
If Sarkozy’s convictions are upheld, his incarceration would enable him to remain nearer to house than one other notable French chief.
After conquering a lot of Europe, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte suffered a string of army defeats and was exiled to the Mediterranean island of Elba in 1814. He escaped lower than a yr later, took again management of France and was defeated on the battle of Waterloo.
This time, he was exiled to the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, the place he was guarded by 2,100 British troopers and 10 ships till he died six years later.
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