Ghislaine Maxwell is being hit with backlash once again today, as sources are claiming that she was given the first in-person federal jail visit in New York City since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The New York Daily News reported that two attorneys for the alleged former madam of Jeffrey Epstein were seen walking up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Friday morning to meet with the 58 year-old British socialite. Maxwell has been locked up in the detention center for less than two months, while other inmates who have been in lockdown for six months since the pandemic began have not received any legal or family visits in that time.
“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,” said Susan Marcus, an lawyer who is representing clients at the MDC who are facing the death penalty.
“It’s heartbreaking, actually,” she added.
Maxwell was arrested on July 2 on six charges related to her allegedly grooming young girls for sex with Epstein. Her lawyers said nothing as they walked into the MDC this morning.
The federal Bureau of Prisons refused to confirm whether or not Maxwell was the first federal inmate in the city to receive a visit.
“While in general legal visits are suspended, case-by-case accommodations will be accomplished at the local level and confidential legal calls will be allowed in order to ensure inmates maintain access to counsel,” said BOP spokesman Justin Long. “We are facilitating attorney client-visitation, as well as judicial proceedings, via video conference, primarily at our detention centers.”
Sources said that Maxwell has an entire floor of the prison to herself, and that inmates were forced to polish the floors there in anticipation for her arrival. One woman in the prison even said that Maxwell is given one extra hour of recreation time each day.
Despite this, Maxwell has complained that jail officials are subjecting her to “onerous conditions” in an attempt to prevent her from killing herself, as Epstein did last year. She tried to use these complaints to convince a judge to move her into the general population of the prison, but this request was denied.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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