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Running, pottery and checkers tournaments: the new life of Ghislaine Maxwell in prison

2022-11-15T14:34:32.958Z


Locked up in the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution, in Florida, Ghislaine Maxwell would work six hours a day in the library, exercise daily and participate in pottery workshops and board game tournaments.


They hoped to spend the next twenty years immersed in the most total solitude… The victims of Ghislaine Maxwell will be disappointed to learn that the new life behind bars for the accomplice of pedophile criminal Jeffrey Epstein is not so nightmarish.

According to an in-depth investigation by the

Daily Mail

, which collected the confidences of prison staff and a former prisoner, the former British socialite has a varied and well-crafted program in prison.

Far from the deleterious conditions of his previous place of detention.

On video, Ghislaine Maxwell, from the jet-set to prison

After waking up at five o'clock in the morning, followed by a breakfast where she is offered oatmeal or toast, the 60-year-old prisoner indulges in a daily jog on the athletics track available to her. the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution (Florida), where she is locked up.

After that, she spends seven to ten hours in the prison library and educational center, and very often participates in prison activities.

Among which, pilates, yoga, bodybuilding or frisbee sessions, but also pottery, crochet and cross-stitch lessons given by a notorious prisoner: the criminal Narcy Novack, with whom she recently made friends. .

Also, Ghislaine Maxwell likes to breathe fresh air.

That's why she regularly opts for a walk, before the

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The educated prison

Although behind bars, Ghislaine Maxwell has retained her socialite soul.

Among the 755 detainees at the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution (located a few kilometers from Jeffrey Epstein's residence where he abused many young girls), the youngest child of British press magnate Robert Maxwell has built up a clique of friends influential people who ensured him protection in the establishment.

And there is no doubt that his education has something to do with it.

A graduate of Oxford, Ghislaine Maxwell would share her literary knowledge with her fellow prisoners, to whom she recommends novels and history books, tells the

Daily Mail

.

"She has a reputation for being smart," a source told the British tabloid.

The heiress would thus have been designated by the other prisoners to represent them during a competition of ladies, an essential event of the establishment.

And for good reason, “the winning team wins a very good meal: chicken wings, pizzas, that sort of thing.

It's much better than the usual food, continues the informant.

Nobody cares what you did, as long as you win."

One of the 'highest profile' prisoners

Nothing had started well for Ghislaine Maxwell, however, she who was so "withdrawn" when she arrived at this Florida detention center in July.

“Ghislaine cried a lot when she came in.

You could hear him screaming that everything was inhuman.

She was walking like a zombie, her eyes were still swollen,” a former prisoner told the

Daily Mail

.

“She asked people if they wanted fruit and ate mostly apples, bananas, oranges, sometimes spinach or collard greens.”

But four months later, inmate 02879-509 has visibly adjusted.

“Now she has friends and eats more.

She is bubbly, we see her smile.

You can see that she is visibly more comfortable.”

Within the prison walls, Ghislaine Maxwell did not make friends with just any inmates.

She is said to be particularly close to Linda Morrow, who helped her plastic surgeon husband scam millions of dollars from insurers, and Narcy Novack.

Aged 65, the latter is serving a life sentence for having ordered in 2009 the murders of her husband Ben Novack Jr, wealthy heir to a powerful family and owner of a hotel complex in Florida, and his mother Bernice. “Novack commands respect, people don't pick on her.

She, Ghislaine and Linda seem to stick together because they are the most prominent prisoners here,” adds the tabloid source.

In video, the trailer for

Ghislaine Maxwell in the shadow of Epstein

Better conditions of detention

Incarcerated since the summer of 2020, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced on June 28 to a twenty-year prison sentence for the sex trafficking of minors, in the context of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

After two years locked up in the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York, where she complained of meals infested with maggots and inhumane treatment, Maxwell was to serve her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Danbury, the Connecticut prison which inspired

Orange is the New Black

.

But without any explanation being given, she was sent at the end of July to another federal institution, in Florida: the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution, which offers much better living conditions than her previous place of detention. .

The proof, the prisoners have the right to spend 360 dollars a month to buy beauty products, earrings, MP3 players, radio sets and an assortment of snacks.

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In November 2021, the one who has long played the touts for financier Jeffrey Epstein had denounced the abuse she suffered in her prison in Brooklyn, New York.

"I have been assaulted and abused for almost a year and a half," she said.

After being in solitary confinement for almost 16 months, Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice explained: “I haven't had a single nutritious meal in all this time.

I haven't slept without lights on - fluorescent lights that hurt my eyes - nor been allowed to sleep without being constantly interrupted.

And to conclude: “I have no stamina.

I'm tired.

I don't even have shoes in my size.

They give me rotten food.

There were maggots in an apple.

They don't let me exercise."

Source: lefigaro

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