Almost one month ago, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years in prison for human trafficking and assorted other felony convictions. Maxwell’s defense was that her daddy was mean to her and Jeffrey Epstein was an evil mastermind, except the state established that Maxwell effectively ran a trafficking operation for Epstein, and Maxwell abused girls and women as well. A twenty-year sentence was longer than I was expecting, but it’s also too short, if that makes sense. In any case, Ghislaine has now been moved from New York to Florida, where she’ll spend the next twenty years in a low-security prison in Tallahassee.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a low security federal prison in Florida to continue serving her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, Bureau of Prison records show.

Maxwell, 60, has been assigned to Tallahassee FCI, described on its website as a “low security federal correctional institution with a detention center.”

She was convicted in December on five federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor, as part of a yearslong scheme with Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.

Prosecutors argued Maxwell and Epstein conspired to set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships with Epstein from 1994 to 2004 in New York, Florida, New Mexico and the US Virgin Islands. Four women testified during the trial that Epstein abused them and that Maxwell facilitated the abuse and sometimes participated in it as well.

Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges, was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019 but died by suicide in prison a month later. Maxwell has been detained since her arrest in July 2020, and prosecutors said she received credit for two years of time served. She is due to be released in 2037.

[From CNN]

Released in 2037? Ugh. She’ll be 75 when she’s released? I hate that she gets “credit” for being detained since 2020. I’m also suspicious of the fact that she’s been moved to a low-security prison which apparently has tons of “perks” for the inmates. Perks like yoga, Pilates and arts & crafts. I mean, I’m sure it’s still PRISON. I’m sure she’ll still be uncomfortable and awful. I absolutely wonder if she’ll ever turn over some of the names of the men who accepted trafficked girls. Maybe after a few years of Florida humidity she will.

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