Ghislaine Maxwell moved to low-security prison in Florida

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Ghislaine Maxwell has been sent to a low-security prison to serve her 20-year prison sentence for procuring teenage girls to be abused by the financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The 60-year-old has been moved to FCI Tallahassee in Florida, according to the Bureau of Prisons. She will be eligible for release on 17 July 2037.
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Her lawyers repeatedly complained that conditions at the Brooklyn jail were “reprehensible”. They claimed Maxwell was subjected to such invasive surveillance that it “rivals scenes of Dr Hannibal Lecter’s incarceration” from the film The Silence of the Lambs.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/25/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-to-low-security-prison-in-florida-epstein
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I'm sure she's enjoying the pool and tennis courts in her new cushy low security prison. It's all about the money - any regular individual would have been thrown in the stir and that would have been it. People like Ghislaine and Martha Stewart get a time out with private rooms.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I don't believe Martha Stewart deserves to be mentioned

in the same breath as that reprehensible human trafficking accomplice.

[niyad]

3. Thank you. I was going to mention that.

[Rebl2]

6. Absolutely

Martha Stewart should not be mentioned in the same breath.

[spooky3]

7. Agree. MS's offense was minor and others doing the same served no time.

There was evidence of sexism and politics in her case.

[FloridaDAR]

9. Thank you.

To mention Martha Stewart as relating to this despicable woman is horrendous.

[imaginary girl]

10. +1

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13. I was only making a monetary comparison.

Sorry if you were offended by that.

[Abnredleg]

2. Not quite the country club you make it out to be

[link:https://prisonerresource.com/federal-bureau-prisons/fci-tallahassee/|

[onetexan]

4. Why a fed prison on FLA? Hmmm

[GregariousGroundhog]

11. Probably due to population issues

The defense asked the judge to recommend FCI Danbury, which is the closest federal correctional institution for women to Ghislaine's previous residence. The judge complied, but the Bureau of Prisons assigned her to FCI Tallahassee for whatever reason. I imagine the prison's population being the primary factor.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Well, low security is also cheaper to operate than mid and high security detention

Feds would prefer to put people in low security if it's suitable for the case.

I'm sure it's a fairly complicated decision weighing a whole host of factors, but the biggest one is ... cost.

I can imagine that, fairly or not, a person's personal wealth probably plays at least a little bit into that calculation by the government.

Along with politics somewhat, like 'if this person escapes, might they go on a killing spree that makes us look horrible' type of thing.

There's probably also statistics that show that people (esp. 60+ yo women) who have a bunch of money to go home to ... tend to be 'better' prisoners in the ways that are important to the government's bottom-line.

As a taxpayer, I tend to appreciate that

[GregariousGroundhog]

8. Your comment about being all about the money is off base

You can read through the Bureau of Prison's security classification document if you would like:
https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5100_008cn.pdf

The "sex offender" public security factor is probably what get her put into a low-security prison; it doesn't appear like Ghislaine has enough security points to move her up from minimum-security to low-security.

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14. Looks damned cushy for a prison

I went to the web site and looked at list after list of on-site services and activities. Doesn't sound awful. The real insult is we have to pay to put a roof over that woman's head and feed her with full medical services etc.. We should treat the homeless this well.

[Marcuse]

12. Probably a DOJ deal to keep the Johns anonymous except for Randy Windsor and Professor Underpants.

[YorkRd]

15. Maxwell is child rapist!

[rownesheck]

16. She's probably being moved

to minimum security in the hopes she'll "commit suicide".