All posts tagged "Prison"

A former employee of the prison where Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice and convicted child sex offender, Ghislaine Maxwell, is incarcerated, spoke out on CNN about the lengths staff there are taking to make sure she has a cushy experience.

"The things that were being done for her were not common for any of the other inmates," Noella Turnage told CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday.

Turnage was fired from the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where Maxwell is incarcerated. Turnage shared emails from Maxwell that boasted how much better it is than the last prison that held her....

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has filed court documents seeking to be released from prison, reportedly “throwing a wrench” into the Justice Department’s efforts to release “scores” of files related to her case.

“Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Epstein counterpart, wrote in a letter filed Wednesday in federal court that she plans to soon file a court petition challenging her detention, a long-shot bid that, if successful, could result in a new trial,” The Hill reported.

Maxwell’s attorneys “said Maxwell does not take a position on the government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts,” but, “to do so could imperil a retrial if her challenge, called a habeas petition, prevails.”...

Newly released emails from Ghislaine Maxwell – who was deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein's chief accomplice — show that the special privileges she's receiving in prison even include "secretarial services" from the facility's highest-ranking official.

The Atlantic's Isaac Stanley-Becker reported Thursday that he pored through dozens of emails that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee received from a nurse who worked at the minimum security prison camp in Bryan, Texas (northwest of Houston) where Maxwell was transferred earlier this year. While NBC News reported on some excerpts of those emails, Stanley-Becker wrote that the most notable details had "not previously been reported."

According to the Atlantic journalist, Maxwell's emails were "notably free of regret, remorse, shame [and] self-doubt." He wrote that they provide a window into the "relatively comfortable life" of the woman serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein groom and exploit underage girls. One of Epstein's victims recalled that Maxwell was "more physically abusive" than Epstein....

Convict Donald Trump could perish in prison if he loses his third presidential bid on Nov. 5.

That was former federal prosecutor Harry Litman's prognostication when he appeared on former Sen. Al Frankel's podcast.

"If he doesn't win he has an appreciable chance of dying in prison," Litman said. ...

A fracas over whether or not Donald Trump will be punished with prison or spared got heated between a retired New York judge and a white shoe defense attorney.

Retired Queens County Supreme Court Judge George Grasso debated with attorney Arthur Aidala, who represents such clients as convicted Hollywood studio head Harvey Weinstein, over the appropriate punishment that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should seek and ultimately New York Judge Juan Merchan impose on 77-year-old convicted Trump.

"If Alvin Bragg dares to ask for jail time after on the first day of him being in office, he put out a memo about how soft he was on crime," Aidala said....

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg gave a rare public speech on former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money case, shortly after the jury returned a verdict of guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records — but declined to answer reporters' questions about whether he will pursue prison time at sentencing.

"The judge has scheduled a sentencing for July 11th," said Bragg. "We will speak in court in that time. He also set a motion schedule; we will speak in our court filings as we've done throughout this proceeding."

Bragg spent much of his speech and answers thanking the jury for its service, as well as the prosecutors on his team for effectively seeing the case through to its conclusion....