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NEW YORK Ghislaine Maxwell, in quarantine in a Brooklyn federal jail due to coronavirus exposure, has endured a flashlight shined in her cell every 15 minutes while she sleeps, according to her defense attorney.
The new details from Maxwells lawyer Bobbi Sternheim came in response to the governments claim the British socialite was still able to prepare a defense while in quarantine for at least 14 days at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to charges of grooming victims of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-1990s.
The government highlights what Ms. Maxwell is permitted but not what she is denied: equal treatment accorded other inmates in general population. Ms. Maxwell has spent the entirely of her pretrial detention in de facto solitary confinement under the most restrictive conditions where she is excessively and invasively searched and is monitored 24 hours per day. In addition to camera surveillance in her cell, a supplemental camera follows her movement when she is permitted to leave her isolation cell, Sternheim wrote.
Despite non-stop in-cell camera surveillance, Ms. Maxwells sleep is disrupted every 15 minutes when she is awakened by a flashlight to ascertain whether she is breathing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-complains-that-nyc-jail-staff-shine-flashlight-in-her-cell-every-15-minutes/ar-BB1bkohk?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)2naSalit
(86,332 posts)ret5hd
(20,482 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)Blue Owl
(50,274 posts)in case she receives any 2:00 a.m. well-wishing tweets from little Donny
Deuxcents
(16,088 posts)Period.
RainCaster
(10,842 posts)If I had to look at her every 15 minutes all through my shift, I would need some serious attitude adjustment at the end of the day.
fierywoman
(7,671 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,835 posts)Hekate
(90,562 posts)dchill
(38,447 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,373 posts)Um, thoughts and prayers.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)She can fuck right off
MontanaMama
(23,296 posts)paid her a visit by now.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Maybe he is busy trying to cover his tracks before the rule of law returns to The DOJ.
Quixote1818
(28,918 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)JDC
(10,117 posts)Didn't work out so well for Epstein. Her lawyer should be advocating a light check in conjunction with those cameras.
lpbk2713
(42,740 posts)She gets no sympathy from me.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)suck it
Talitha
(6,563 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She doesn't deserve to live, let alone to live in comfort. She can go to hell for all I care.
JI7
(89,241 posts)BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,808 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)And hospitals I have been in 15 minute flashlight checks are the norm.
You get used to it.