<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656329722984,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017c-2d8e-d3f3-a7fc-7ffef6720000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656329722984,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017c-2d8e-d3f3-a7fc-7ffef6720000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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The former Jeffrey Epstein confidante claimed that staff at the Brooklyn jail where she is being held threatened her safety, thus prompting employees to put her on suicide watch. The watch was announced on Saturday by attorney Bobbi Sternheim, claiming that officials may need to delay Maxwell’s sentencing due to risks to her safety.
PROSECUTORS: GHISLAINE MAXWELL SHOULD FACE 30 TO 55 YEARS IN PRISON
While being placed on suicide watch will typically lead to a subject’s sentencing being delayed, prosecutors argued that the threat-based reasons for the suicide watch mean there is no reason for a delay in sentencing, according to Reuters.
Officials abruptly moved Maxwell to solitary confinement and placed her on suicide watch on Friday without a psychological evaluation and “without justification,” Sternheim told U.S. Circuit Judge Alison Nathan, according to CNN.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for comment. “For safety and security reasons, the Bureau of Prisons does not provide information about conditions of confinement or internal security practices for any particular inmate,” a representative said. “The BOP is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all inmates in our population, our staff, and the public. Humane treatment of the men and women in our custody is a top priority.”
Maxwell had pleaded not guilty to six criminal counts, including “transporting a minor for the purposes of criminal sexual activity,” “conspiring to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts,” and perjury related to statements she made in 2016. She was found guilty on five of six counts in December 2021.
Federal prosecutors, in making their request that she be sentenced to decades in prison, said Maxwell had an “instrumental role in the horrific sexual abuse of multiple young teenage girls,” the memorandum said, adding that she enjoyed “a life of extraordinary luxury and privilege” while engaging in a “disturbing agreement” with Epstein.
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Lawyers for Maxwell argued for a lighter sentence and noted that Maxwell experienced prison conditions that were “far more onerous and punitive than any experienced by a typical pretrial detainee,” including extensive isolation, multiple physical searches, and “meager, stale, often rancid food.”
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy for allegedly abusing girls as young as 14. He pleaded not guilty to the charges before being found dead in his Manhattan prison cell in August 2019. His death at 66 was ruled a suicide by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office. The troubled jail was closed soon after, with the Justice Department saying “issues” needed to be addressed.
