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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJustice Dept. has taken a number of steps to ensure Ghislaine Maxwell's safety
Federal officials were so worried Jeffrey Epsteins longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell might take her own life after her arrest that they took away her clothes and sheets and made her wear paper attire while in custody, an official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The steps to ensure Maxwells safety while shes locked up at a federal jail in New York City extend far beyond the measures federal officials took when they first arrested her in New Hampshire last week.
The Justice Department has implemented additional safety protocols, and federal officials, outside the Bureau of Prisons, have been specifically tasked with ensuring that there is adequate protection and that the prisons protocols are being followed, the official said. The protections are in case she harms herself and in case other inmates wish to harm her.
The concern comes in part because Epstein, 66, killed himself in a federal jail in Manhattan last summer while in custody on sex trafficking charges. The Bureau of Prisons has been the subject of intense scrutiny and conspiracy theories since then, with staff shakeups and leadership changes. Attorney General William Barr said his death was the result of the perfect storm of screw ups.
Maxwell was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, just over the Brooklyn Bridge from where Epstein was held. The other protocols put in place for Maxwells confinement include ensuring that she has a roommate in her cell, that she is monitored and that someone is always with her while shes behind bars, the official said.
https://apnews.com/80e1d24b3111582256de4fb788fc4fc2
lame54
(35,295 posts)brush
(53,794 posts)precautions because they know everyone figures they're going to suicide her someway.
I think they'll use the most obvious one right nowcovid-19. It's the perfect solution for them.
Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)have operatives in place in different locations worldwide with evidence to release in the event that any harm come to her. In that case, she will probably survive.
brush
(53,794 posts)she's despicable, but I want Barr and all those who abused and or raped those girls gets what's coming to them.
She also would've been smart to videotape herself naming names and to have those tapes stored with her attorney or attorneys.
Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)People with too much money have lots to lose.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)as plea bargaining chips, [she is smart enough knows the players], to gain some free years in her life. And, the threat of the info blowing all over if something 'happens' to her.
[Inside DOJ, the good guys should be forearmed v. the usual suspect bad guys - press allies, pols, et al].
spanone
(135,851 posts)blm
(113,071 posts)for her welfare.
Daddy Barrs lifelong Epstein secrets are driving Barr.
Nevilledog
(51,137 posts)grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)A Russian with nothing to lose?
doc03
(35,354 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Her dad died of mysterious circumstances.
She may want to start singing like a bird.