Ghislaine Maxwell in Horrible Jail Conditions

Gislaine Maxwell’s lawyer says her client is being held in “horrible conditions” in a federal jail in New York City. She was found guilty of participating a scheme to traffic teenage girls. Judge Nathan said Maxwell’s conduct was heinous. Maxwell has been in jail since July 2020 and has repeatedly requested bail. The court is denying her release. Her attorney failed to convince a jury that she was the primary target of her crimes.

While prosecutors had asked for 30-55 years in prison, the probation department recommended a sentence of 20 years. Maxwell’s lawyers, however, had asked for a lesser sentence, requesting only four to five years in jail. Maxwell’s lawyers argued that Maxwell did not show remorse or accept responsibility for her crimes. While this may not seem like a harsh punishment, the sentence is a turning point in the international sex trafficking case.

Upon conviction, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for her role in the sex-trafficking industry. Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of her conspiring to groom underage girls for sexual exploit. The two had a long-term relationship and even met in the same sex-sex industry in the early 1990s. She was transferred from the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York to a low-security facility in Florida. Her sentence will expire 17 July 2037.

Ghislaine Maxwell was unable to get bail on her first attempt. Her lawyers appealed her sentence and said that Florida’s jail conditions are “unreasonably harsh”. Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers compared the conditions of Ghislaine Maxwell’s incarceration to that of Hannibal Lecter’s in “The Silence of the Lambs.” In September, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied her bail application. The appeals process will conclude in late April.

Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for her role in a sex trafficking ring with Jeffrey Epstein. While she did not testify in her own defense during her trial, she was found guilty of five counts of sex trafficking with underage girls. Maxwell spoke to victims prior to her sentencing and admitted her involvement in the sex trafficking ring, but she did not accept full responsibility.