Ghislaine Maxwell is being held in solitary confinement by other inmates at a federal prison for her own safety and the “orderly” function of the facility, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
The British socialite, 58, filed a petition earlier this week to be released to the general public at the Metropolitan Detention Center. She cries in court documents of the ‘annoying’ circumstances she has – including camera surveillance around the clock and guards handing in notes on her every move.
But Assistant Manhattan U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller responded Thursday that the Bureau of Prisons’ exhaustive measures were to protect Maxwell.
“For reasons, including safety, security, and the proper functioning of the facility, BOP has made the provision that at present the suspect must not be fully integrated into the dorm-style accommodations of the general population,” Rossmiller wrote .
The Bureau of Prisons “will continue to evaluate” where Maxwell should be placed and will only consider sending them to the general public “if and when BOP is sure that such placement poses no threat to the orderly work of the institution would form, “he continued.
Maxwell claimed she was treated “worse” than other inmates prior to the trial because the prison overreacted to the suicide of her former friend Jeffrey Epstein and tried to prevent a similar situation.
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The multi-millionaire pedophile was hanged in his Manhattan federal prison cell last August. Two correctional officers falsified all records and never checked on him the night he took his life.
But Maxwell’s lawyers wrote that the precautionary measures were not right because she “has never been suicidal and has never been diagnosed as an exposing risk factor for suicide.”
‘Her cell is [still] several times a day and she is forced to undergo various body scans, ”her lawyers said.
Rossmiller contended that her treatment was “completely appropriate,” considering her circumstances.
“There is no merit to their complaints about staff control, because it is perfectly appropriate for BOP to carefully check on every resident, in particular a new resident who has never sat before and who has the strong opportunity to serve many years in prison, ”he wrote.
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Maxwell is charged with a six-count charge of accusing girls of abusing Epstein and lying under oath.
She pleads not guilty.
Additional report by Ben Feuerherd
This story first appeared in the New York Post.
