Lawyers are speaking out in fury right now over the “absurd” and “unjust” special treatment that Ghislaine Maxwell is getting in prison.

Law And Crime reported that on Friday, Maxwell was given the first in-person federal jail visit in New York City since the start of the coronavirus pandemic when her lawyers were given the opportunity to visit her. Sean Hecker, a partner at the law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, spoke out afterwards to call the visit “[a]bsurd & unjust.”

“We’ve been litigating for the Fed Defenders of NY to obtain a safe, in-person visiting option for many months,” Hecker tweeted. “MDC detainees have been waiting up to 6 months for such visits. And BOP-MDC decides that the 1st such visit should go to a wealthy British socialite? Absurd & unjust.”

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Hecker later doubled down on this, saying that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was flat-out “wrong” to allow this.

“The BOP’s decision is outrageous. And it’s wrong. It bolsters a widespread belief that well-heeled friends of the President are treated preferentially by the Department of Justice. When the MDC is safe for in-person attorney visits, everyone detained there – Ms. Maxwell included – should have regular opportunities to meet with counsel,” Hecker said. “But to learn that the very first in-person visit was provided to a well-connected detainee who has been at the MDC for just two months, rather than to one of the countless detainees who have been unable to meet with their lawyers for close to six months, is distressing.”

Hecker went on to say that he found the length of Maxwell’s meeting with her lawyers to be “disconcerting.”

“And then to find out that attorneys for Ms. Maxwell were given three hours to meet with their client – when the MDC has said that visits will generally be limited to one hour – is more disconcerting,” he said. “There can’t be two systems of justice in this country – one of friends of President Trump and one for everyone else.”

Attorney Susan Marcus agreed with him, saying that she has clients at the same facility where Maxwell is that are facing the death penalty, yet they have not gotten to meet with their lawyers as she has.

“I’m incredulous really that she was the first one when there are those of us who have been waiting for nearly six months to have an in person visit with our clients,” Marcus said. “It’s heartbreaking, actually.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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