Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking of teen girls – and her treatment is prompting speculation

Since Ghislaine Maxwell’s controversial transfer to a low-security prison camp this summer, her time at Texas’s FPC Bryan has prompted uproar over alleged favorable treatment – including claims this week that she was provided custom-made meals, access to a puppy and as much toilet paper as she wants.

Some of the recent accusations were in a 9 November letter thatJamie Raskin sent to Donald Trump. The Democratic representative’s letter, which cited whistleblower information, demanded answers about Maxwell’s conditions – including whether Trump directed anyone in his administration to give her special treatment.

Whistleblower disclosures, Raskin said, also revealed that Maxwell was working on a “commutation application” with Trump’s administration. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of teen girls, a scandal that has dogged Trump for years and has recently hit a feverish pitch during his second term.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    US prisons are problematic, they routinely mistreat prisoners, deny or overcharge for phone service, permits slave labor, and so on. So some of this lady’s privilege should be rights for all prisoners. That said, she is guilty of sexual assaults, by deliberately putting the innocent into positions into which it would happen. Ghislaine should be death row material.

    Most prisoners are in the clink for bad or excessive charges, but this lady fully deserves the chair. She can’t be rehabilitated, and offers nothing to society beyond damning testimony.

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    2 days ago

    Lol.

    The sitting president of the United States of America is either a child fucker or being blackmailed by child fuckers.

    Or both I guess.

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    One of her messages said that “the staff is polite and responsive.”

    Well, isn’t that nice for her, in prison? Just how we want to see the most notorious and prolific child sex predator on the planet treated.

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      19 hours ago

      Many that live deserve no toilet paper. And some that die who deserve much toilet paper. Can you give it to them Frodo?

      Then do not be too eager to deal out toilet paper in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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      I imagine limits were originally imposed to prevent mis-/excessive use or tool making, but corrupted over the years to just be cruel.

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        I know prisoners can be extremely resourceful, but I really wanna see what kind tools someone can make with what is probably 1 ply TP.

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          It can be used to assist in removing water from the bowl of certain toilets. In those facilities, inmates can use the toilet pipe network to communicate.

          Large amounts of soaked toilet paper can be used as large spitball projectiles, thrown at guards as a momentary distraction to allow for a follow-up attack or other capitalization on the distraction.

          Some use it to cover up lights or windows, sometimes mixing with Vaseline to produce a wick for cooking food, clogging plumbing in the cell to cause a flood, and even arts and crafts purposes.

          For all those reasons above, plus making cigarette paraphernalia, the toilet paper itself becomes a jail commodity or even currency.

          It is a jailhouse resource, and a valuable one.

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          The MythBusters made rope out of it. I’m not sure it would actually help her do anything though since she has like work release and shit.

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    We’ll duh of course it’s a puppy. Everyone knows she likes 'em on the young side.

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    Having to take care of a pet and find use for unlimited TP sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. We should remove both stipulations.

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    Huh, and these experts get paid? And I assume good money too, yeah?

    Hell, I can make assessments like this! Where to I apply?

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      No, they don’t get paid for newspaper opinions. But step one to being an expert is researching and publishing. You can probably see if your local university or think tank has open research positions.