On Wednesday, Donald Trump turned himself in to Atlanta’s notorious Fulton County Jail.

The facility is widely known as a pre-trial detention center for low-level offenders who can’t afford to make bond.

But after spending approximately 20 minutes inside the facility and reporting his own vitals — a rare move unless you happen to be the former president of the United States — Trump posted $200,000 bail, thanks to a local bondsman, and returned to the world a free man after being charged on at least 13 felony offenses relating to conspiring to overturn Georgia’s results in the 2020 presidential election.

“Today, at the notoriously violent jail in Fulton County, Georgia, I was arrested despite having committed no crime,” Trump said in a written statement on his website. “The American people know what’s going on. What has taken place is a travesty of justice and election interference.”

Trump’s experience is far from the norm of people incarcerated at Fulton County Jail, known locally as Rice Street Jail for its location.

Most cannot afford to leave, activists say, and are forced to spend months at a time awaiting hearings in squalid conditions.

A 2022 report by the American Civil Liberties Union found 117 people had been held at Fulton County Jail for more than one year without an indictment. Another 12 had been held for over two years without indictment, violating a Georgia law stating that a person in jail must be provided bond or indicted within 90 days.

Those only charged with misdemeanors were held in jail for an average 40 days and 30 percent of those charged with misdemeanors were detained for more than three months.

In 2021, the three most common booking charges at the facility were criminal trespass, possession and use of drugs and shoplifting, according to county data.

Not all of those common offenses rise to the level of felony charges.

Fulton County Jail hasn’t just been in the news lately because of who’s been booked there.

Seven people have died at Fulton County Jail this year, including 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson, who his family’s attorneys say was eaten alive by bed bugs and insects. Thompson had been housed in the facility’s psychiatric ward at the time of his death. He was arrested in June of 2022 on a battery misdemeanor charge.

In 2022, 15 people died at the facility, based on numbers reported by Atlanta Magazine. It has also struggled with overcrowding. From 2017 to 2019, approximately 31,000 people occupied the jail’s beds, data from the county states.

In July, The U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into the facility, partly in response to Thompson’s death. The department also cited allegations about the facility being structurally unsafe and violence resulting in serious injuries and homicides.

The probe will focus on living conditions, medical and mental health care, use of force and protection from violence, according to a press release. Additionally, the DOJ will discover if jail staff and officials discriminate against people with psychiatric disabilities.

“People in prisons and jails are entitled to basic protections of their civil rights,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, said in the release.

“We launched this investigation into the Fulton County Jail based on serious allegations of unsafe, unsanitary living conditions at the jail…The Justice Department will determine whether systemic violations of federal laws exist, and if so, how to correct them.”

Since announcing the probe, three other individuals have died at the facility, including 40-year-old Montay Stinson, who was found unresponsive in his cell earlier this month.