Originally posted by Willy:
Normally some conversations, like between a doctor and his patient or a lawyer and his client, are confidential
When you are locked up in a "ultra-maximum security" prison like John Gotti, can you still talk to your doctor and/or lawyer in private? Or can the FBI get permission to bug all of your conversations?
Prisoners are not permitted to have private doctors in any lockup--even a local lockup. If a prisoner needs medical attention, he'll get a doctor employed by the prison, or by a contract firm that supplies physicians and other services to prisons. A prisoner in an "ultramax" facility like Marion can have privileged (unbugged) conversations with a lawyer, but not in private. They probably have a room in which the prisoner and lawyer sit on opposite sides of a table, with a screen between them, and guards watching them. The guards will be just far enough away so that they can't hear the conversation if the prisoner and lawyer speak quietly--but close enough to pounce on either if they get out of line.
