• MicrowaveCat@lemmy.world
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      Rikers is a jail which means it houses three groups. Those are pretrial detainee, people convicted of misdemeanors (crimes punishable by up to a year), or people convicted of felonies (crimes punishable by more than a year) but who were sentenced to less than a year.

      If he is sentenced to incarceration for over a year, Trump would go to one of New York’s prisons. If under a year, he could go to a jail like Rikers.

      *edit to fix horrible phrasing.

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        or felonies (punishable by more than a year) but sentenced to less than a year If sentenced to incarceration for over a year

        I had to read this 4 times to finally realize there’s a missing period that makes it make sense.