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marble falls

(63,057 posts)
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 09:57 AM Dec 2020

Ghislaine Maxwell Calls Jail Oppressive. Prosecutors Say She Has It Easy.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Calls Jail Oppressive. Prosecutors Say She Has It Easy.

Ms. Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has asked to be released on $28.5 million bond as she awaits trial on federal charges.


By Benjamin Weiser and Amy Julia Harris

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/nyregion/ghislaine-maxwell-bail.html

Dec. 18, 2020

In Ghislaine Maxwell’s telling, the conditions in her Brooklyn jail are oppressive. Guards with flashlights rouse her every 15 minutes to check whether she’s breathing. She is subjected to constant surveillance and to frequent strip searches. In her own cell away from other prisoners, she has been deprived of food and sleep, and she is unable to communicate with friends or family.

But on Friday, federal prosecutors contended that Ms. Maxwell didn’t have it so bad. She is released from her cell for 13 hours a day. She has her own shower, her own phone and exclusive use of two computers — even her own TV.

-snip-

The dispute over Ms. Maxwell’s living conditions has been continuing. Last month, one of Ms. Maxwell’s lawyers, Bobbi C. Sternheim, wrote that her client had spent the entirety of her pretrial detention in “de facto solitary confinement under the most restrictive conditions where she is excessively and invasively searched and is monitored 24 hours per day.”

Weeks later, in a letter sent on Dec. 7 to the judge, Ms. Sternheim argued that Ms. Maxwell had been an exemplary detainee, and that the Bureau of Prisons had imposed “extraordinarily onerous conditions” of confinement on her to avoid “the catastrophic consequences of negligence” that led to Mr. Epstein’s jailhouse suicide.

-snip-



What's an onerous and oppressive condition is being a child who is/was being sexually trafficked by Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Calls Jail Oppressive. Prosecutors Say She Has It Easy. (Original Post) marble falls Dec 2020 OP
Ghislaine, dear, jail is supposed to be oppressive jmowreader Dec 2020 #1
My First Thought, Too ProfessorGAC Dec 2020 #16
Exactly! Caliman73 Dec 2020 #21
Amazing how many of us had the very same thought... Hekate Dec 2020 #23
She has a helluva lot more than many Americans right now. nt Irish_Dem Dec 2020 #2
She deserves no better than the general jail population. overleft Dec 2020 #18
And she is lucky to get that. nt Irish_Dem Dec 2020 #19
And she is lucky to get that. nt Irish_Dem Dec 2020 #22
Throw her in general Delarage Dec 2020 #3
Poor thing can't even use the prison yacht on the weekends. tanyev Dec 2020 #4
Where's my fucking violin? louis-t Dec 2020 #5
Translation: where the hell is my damn presidential pardon? FakeNoose Dec 2020 #6
That's exactly why this is getting press: she's waiting for trump to cut her loose, or she might BComplex Dec 2020 #8
Unacceptable. Give her a gourmet chef or something dalton99a Dec 2020 #7
she will be the next one to be pardoned. I am glad she had some suffering mucifer Dec 2020 #9
In prison and has TWO COMPUTERS she can use?? Bengus81 Dec 2020 #10
Two computers? MustLoveBeagles Dec 2020 #28
wait, what????? OH THE SHAME!!!!! wrong Champagne glasses, eh? mitch96 Dec 2020 #11
What? Trump hasn't pardoned her yet in time for Christmas? no_hypocrisy Dec 2020 #12
So no Michelin stars??? ret5hd Dec 2020 #13
Compared to being a 14 year old girl MuseRider Dec 2020 #14
As merry as it possibly can be in a real, non "county club" prison for next 15 to 20 year. marble falls Dec 2020 #15
Ok, I don't remember, grumpyduck Dec 2020 #17
Daily well wishes from Donny Blue Owl Dec 2020 #20
well, bless her black heart. mopinko Dec 2020 #24
Trump will probably pardon her..nt helpisontheway Dec 2020 #25
Sleeping every night with one eye open must be a drag. NT MrsCheaplaugh Dec 2020 #26
Boo hoo, ms. maxwell shanti Dec 2020 #27
This pardon is going to be wrenching :( n/t moonscape Dec 2020 #29
Oh, my...well, they're just grooming you for the next MineralMan Dec 2020 #30

ProfessorGAC

(71,491 posts)
16. My First Thought, Too
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 10:57 AM
Dec 2020

It's not a luxury hotel, no matter how used to luxury hotels one is.
I'm thinking Baretta about now. "Can't do the time, then don't do the crime, don't do it."

Caliman73

(11,767 posts)
21. Exactly!
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 12:10 PM
Dec 2020

Jail is punishment. It is a consequence for people who have wronged other people, who are dangerous to society. Granted, there are too many people in jail for bogus or offenses that do not warrant incarceration (I.E. possession of cannabis) and that is mainly because of racism and the fact that they are poor (for people who are White). Maxwell destroyed the lives of I don't know how many women, by grooming them and pimping them out to monsters like Epstein and Trump. She can stay in jail for the rest of her life.

Delarage

(2,367 posts)
3. Throw her in general
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 10:02 AM
Dec 2020

If she's so upset with solitary, her own shower, computers, and TV. I'm sure many of the ladies would enjoy sharing time with her.

FakeNoose

(36,521 posts)
6. Translation: where the hell is my damn presidential pardon?
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 10:09 AM
Dec 2020

Stop the Whine Ghislaine. You've been outed as a criminal and a pedo.

Buh bye!


BComplex

(9,234 posts)
8. That's exactly why this is getting press: she's waiting for trump to cut her loose, or she might
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 10:20 AM
Dec 2020

tell on him.

It's always a quid pro quo with these dirty criminal types.

mitch96

(14,930 posts)
11. wait, what????? OH THE SHAME!!!!! wrong Champagne glasses, eh?
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 10:26 AM
Dec 2020

I never thought about Maxwell ratting on tRump and needing a pardon....
m

MuseRider

(34,437 posts)
14. Compared to being a 14 year old girl
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 10:49 AM
Dec 2020

laying without consent under a smelly old man while he takes you as his own?

Go fuck yourself Ghislaine. Oh, and Merry Christmas.

MineralMan

(148,443 posts)
30. Oh, my...well, they're just grooming you for the next
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 09:52 AM
Dec 2020

phase, where all those things you have now are gone and you're in the general population in a federal prison, dear.

You should recognize grooming, I think.

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