Prince Andrew’s pal Ghislaine Maxwell is being held in harsher conditions than the world’s most notorious criminals, her lawyers have claimed.
Attorneys for the British socialite, who has been charged with grooming and abusing three of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, say she is being held in more “restrictive” conditions than supermax prison, ADX Florence.
On Tuesday her legal team filed a letter to the judge handling her case complaining of her treatment.
They wrote: "She is overmanaged under conditions more restrictive than inmates housed in 10South, the most restrictive unit in the MCC (Metropolitan Correctional Centre); or individuals convicted of terrorism and capital murder and incarcerated at FCI Florence ADMAX, the most restrictive facility operated by the BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons).”
Maxwell, 58, is currently being in the tough Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, New York, ahead of her trial next year.
She has been indicted on four charges that relate to 1994 to 1997 of grooming and abusing three girls under the age of 18.
Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell, has pleaded not guilty.
The conditions in which she is currently held came to head after she was moved into isolation after a guard tested positive for Covid.
ADMAX Florence, known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies, houses the world’s most dangerous criminals.
They include drug lord El Chapo, British shoe bomber Richard Reid, Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Al Qaeda co-founder Mamdouh Mahmud Salim.
In the letter to judge Alsion Nathan, Mawell’s lawyers highlight how she is unable to be held with other inmates for her own safety.
They write: "The MDC concedes that it is unable to place her in general population for her safety and the security of the institution but fails to explain why she is deprived of all other opportunities provided to general population inmates.”