Do the Federal Prisons have the facilities to incarcerate someone that is paralyzed from the neck down?
The Feds said they have 100,000.00 in their investigation but during the arrest warrent delivery they shot the suspect. He was shot in the neck and now his vioce box is shattered and unrepairable. you have to try and read his lips and he is paralyzed from the neck down. Will they still try and charge him and put him in prison ? To me he got a life sentence all ready. What could be some opption they would do in this type of case?
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Depends upon a lot of circumstances. Yes, there are facilities--they're pretty much medical facilities though (see, for example, the Federal Medical Center, Springfield, Missouri)-- to house the guy. But it would be difficult. But political pressures to actually incarcerate the suspect may overcome the pity, the costs of incarceration, and the idea that "justice is already served." (on the other hand, if jurors feel too bad for this guy, they may acquit him nonetheless--this may be disincentive for the prosecutors to charge and go forward).
Because it's so fact, and case, and prosecutor specific, no one can make really good guesses as to what may happen.
If this person is tried and found guilty of the crime in question, and he is sentenced, he will not be incarcerated in a general population prison. Instead, he will either be placed in a special prison hospital unit designed for physically challenged and mentally challenged prisoners, or his sentence will be home confinement. However, if he is suspected to have committed a crime, the district attorney has a legal obligation to the public to prosecute the case. Then, the judge and jury will decide his guilt or lack thereof.
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