To locals, the jail is thought merely as “Rice Street.”

And over the subsequent 9 days, the sprawling Atlanta detention middle is the place defendants within the racketeering case in opposition to Donald J. Trump and his allies shall be booked. The native sheriff, who oversees the jail, says that even high-profile defendants like Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s former private lawyer, and Mark Meadows, his former chief of workers, could be handled like everybody else ought to they give up there.

That means they’d endure a medical screening, be fingerprinted and have mug pictures taken, and will spend time in a holding cell on the jail, weeks after the Justice Department announced an investigation for what it referred to as “serious allegations of unsafe, unsanitary living conditions” there.

On Wednesday, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office prohibited news media from gathering close to the jail because it ready for the defendants to be processed. Fani T. Willis, the district lawyer of Fulton County, has stated that she desires all 19 individuals charged within the case to be booked by midday on Aug. 25. Her workplace has led a two-and-a-half-year investigation into election interference by Mr. Trump and his allies that culminated this week with a 98-page racketeering indictment.

The Sheriff’s Office stated in an announcement on Tuesday that “at this point, based on guidance received from the district attorney’s office and presiding judge, it is expected that all 19 defendants” could be booked on the Fulton County Jail, because the Rice Street jail is formally referred to as. But whether or not Mr. Trump himself is processed there’ll very possible depend upon the Secret Service.

After surrendering this yr in Manhattan, where he has been indicted in an unrelated case, Mr. Trump was allowed to forgo sure procedural steps, together with being handcuffed and having his reserving picture taken.

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office has not described intimately how the reserving course of will unfold for Mr. Trump’s co-defendants, leaving it unclear if they are going to actually comply with commonplace working process in one of many highest-profile prosecutions within the state’s historical past.

After the bookings, the defendants shall be arraigned in court docket, the place they are going to hear the costs in opposition to them and enter their pleas. On Wednesday, Ms. Willis’s workplace filed a movement in search of to schedule arraignments for the week of Sept. 5, however the judge assigned to the case, Scott McAfee, will finally determine.

She can also be in search of to begin the trial on March 4 of subsequent yr, the day earlier than the Super Tuesday primaries. The Sheriff’s Office has stated that some arraignments and appearances within the Trump case “may be virtual as dictated by the presiding judge.”

The Rice Street jail isn’t a spot for the faint of coronary heart, stated Robert G. Rubin, a veteran protection lawyer who has had many purchasers booked there. In latest weeks, two inmates have been discovered lifeless on the jail. Last yr, a detainee was discovered lifeless in his cell, his physique lined in bites from mattress bugs and different bugs, in accordance with his lawyer.

At least two songs on Spotify are titled “901 Rice Street,” the jail’s tackle. The in style rapper Latto has a music whose title refers to Rice Street with an expletive. And a line from a Killer Mike rap goes, “Locked in like Rice Street without a bond.”

Typically, as quickly as a defendant surrenders to the police, they go to a holding space with different detainees, Mr. Rubin stated. “It’s miserable. It’s cold. It smells. It’s just generally unpleasant,” he stated, counting on his purchasers’ previous descriptions. “Plus, there’s a high degree of anxiety for any defendant that’s in that position.”

At some level after that comes the reserving course of, which incorporates checking to see if the detainee has excellent warrants. Mr. Rubin says that the pc methods used for such checks typically fail, inflicting delays.

Gerald A. Griggs, one other Atlanta-area trial lawyer, stated the reserving course of may take “four hours or four days,” though a matter of hours at Rice Street is the most definitely situation for the defendants within the Trump case. That is as a result of their attorneys can have most likely negotiated their bond with prosecutors earlier than turning themselves in, obviating the necessity for a bond listening to earlier than a decide.

History means that the Trump defendants may obtain some particular remedy. Both Mr. Griggs and Mr. Rubin represented purchasers within the Atlanta Public Schools dishonest case, which focused quite a few academics and educators who had been accused of fixing college students’ standardized check scores. Both attorneys stated their educator purchasers had been allowed to remain in detention areas segregated from the final jail inhabitants.

Mr. Griggs stated he may foresee that taking place with the Trump case defendants, on the grounds that the high-profile nature of their case might heighten the prospect that they may very well be targets of violence.

The Rice Street jail is about 4 miles northwest of the downtown Atlanta courthouse the place the indictment against Mr. Trump and his allies was handed up by a grand jury late Monday night time. The high-rise constructing is ready amid stands of timber and can’t be seen from the doorway to the entrance parking zone.

The speedy environment are weedy and industrial, with a couple of bail bond firms and bus stops inside strolling distance. Some of the close by residential streets are dotted with forlorn and boarded-up houses.

The sheriff division’s resolution to shut off the parking zone in entrance of the principle jail entrance got here as a shock to veteran native reporters. For years, news crews and reporters have arrange there to file the comings and goings of high-profile defendants.

On Wednesday morning, a photographer for The New York Times was ready at a second jail entrance recognized as an “intake center.” She was instructed by a sheriff’s deputy to depart her place on a public road, and when she protested she was quickly surrounded by three different legislation enforcement officers on bikes.

Mr. Rubin says that he advises his purchasers to arrange for the expertise by displaying up at Rice Street in comfy garments with minimal private belongings, which is able to possible be confiscated during their keep.