'Disgusting': Ex-employee spills how far prison went to give Ghislaine Maxwell cushy life
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.
"The food is legions better," Maxwell wrote in an email to her brother. "The place is clean, the staff is responsive and polite...I feel like I have dropped through Alice in Wonderlands (sic) looking glass. I am much much happier here and more importantly safe."
Turnage explained that this kind of treatment isn't even given to "the other high-profile inmates."
To provide Maxwell a private visitation, prison staff even "caused visitations to be shut down for the rest of the inmates that weekend," Turnage said.
"They were not able to see their families that Saturday to make way for Maxwell to see her visitors," Turnage said.
The prison's warden handled Maxwell's mail, "which may not sound like a big deal to some people, but the other inmates in that prison, they have a hard time getting out their regular mail, much less anything needed for court filings," Turnage explained.
"For them to go out of the way to make sure that Maxwell had that opportunity was pretty disgusting," Turnage said.