For the next 20 years, she’ll feel like she’s in a long-running sequel to Orange is the New Black. No wonder, because while her victims wished Ghislaine Maxwell (60) would languish in a Stalinist gulag until the end of her days, the Epstein accomplice ends up in a “Disneyland with bars”. That’s what the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in the US state of Connecticut, which served as the template for the hit series “Orange is the New Black”, is also called.
Maxwell had spent the last 23 months in Brooklyn’s run-down Metropolitan Detention Center, which even die-hard inmates call a “hell hole.” The fact that she is now being transferred to the comparatively luxurious minimum-security prison in Connecticut is solely due to her last place of residence. More specifically, Danbury is the closest to Maxwell’s New Hampshire home, where she was arrested by the FBI.
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Prison with running track, fitness center and lawns
On July 28, 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison, of which she has 18 to serve. This is because she was found guilty on five counts of building an abuse ring with the already convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (1959-2019), some of whose victims were minors.
She will now serve her sentence in the “Disneyland” prisons. There are no violent criminals held at Danbury Prison, but mainly inmates who have been convicted of white-collar crime. Open execution, as for some of her fellow inmates, is not an option for Maxwell because of the nature and seriousness of her crimes.
In return, she can enjoy the amenities of the prison, including a running track, baseball field, and lawns with trees and manicured paths. According to reports, the women and men are divided into different wings of the prison. The range of leisure activities includes “various handicrafts and music” as well as a fitness center with equipment for circuit training, aerobic classes and “fitness from 50”. There is also a garden, a library and a chapel.
Free walks for Maxwell too?
Except at bedtime or during mealtimes, inmates are free to roam the grounds. However, this only applies to those convicts – male or female – who are classified as harmless or safe. The prison psychologists have to determine whether Maxwell will receive this status after he has been admitted. Especially since the famous new inmate was considered suicidal at her old jail and needed 24-hour surveillance.
Maxwell’s notoriety could also raise security concerns from the Guardians. Because it often happens in prisons that known inmates are attacked by others. If that threat persists, Maxwell faces two decades of isolation. (cth)
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