Disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell may spend the next 20 years in a brutal US prison which inspired hit series Orange Is The New Black.
The 60-year-old media heiress was jailed by a New York court on Tuesday for trafficking girls and young women across state lines to have sex with her child-abusing boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein and his sick mega-rich chums.
Speculation as to where the abuse facilitar would be sent has swirled since she was found guilty on five of the six charges during a much-awaited month-long trial in December last year.
While on remand, she had been staying at the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York - said to be a "wretched, dank, cold" lock-up - also known as the "worst detention centre in America".
And at the hearing yesterday, Judge Nathan recommended the 60-year-old be sent to Danbury FDI in Connecticut after agreeing with a request from Maxwell's lawyers.
Some experts say the unit is "like Disneyland" when compared to her dank Brooklyn cell.
Though the judge recommended she be sent to Danbury, the decision ultimately rests with the Bureau of Prisons, which will judge where whe will go depending on a number of risk factors and her personal circumstances.
The nick is said to be one of the cushier facilities because convicts can take up hobbies, attend music classes, and over 50 fitness programs.
Aerial images taken of the facility, which is around 50 miles from New York, show a running track, sports fields and trees and greenery covering the grounds.
However, the cushy facilities are not open to all inmates, and her access will depend on her security level.
The complex consists of a low security federal correctional institution, which is where Maxwell will most likely be sent - with an adjacent low security satellite prison and minimum security satellite camp.
Yesterday, a federal prison expert told The Mirror he believes there's no way the sex criminal will be allowed to live in the minimum-security "camp" - which is where convicts have full access to the best amenities.
Danbury FCI inspired Litchfield prison, the lock-up in Netflix hit series "Orange Is The New Black".
The show was based on a memoir written by Piper Kerman who spent 13 months behind bars at Danbury for felonious money-laundering.
Some of the shocking events in the show include a convict being served a sandwich with a used tampon inside, an inmate punished by having her hair cut off violently with shears until her scalp bleeds, and the narrator being branded with a swastika by a white power group.
There are also countless other violent beatings and even one instance of an inmate being brutally raped by one of the guards.
Though the series is based on Ms Kerman's memoir, by the end of season seven it had staryed far from the original source material.
Yesterday Federal Prison Consultant Jack Donson told The Mirror Danbury Federal Correctional Institute is "no country club" and Maxwell will be a target no matter where she goes.
He said: "She's going to end up in a secure, female prison regardless. You know, not high security but it won't be a camp.
"It's very unlikely, in my opinion, that she will end up in a high security prison. Instead she'll end up in a low security, what they refer to as a Federal Correctional Institution."
Mr Donson said prison officials will likely choose to house Maxwell far from major areas, like New York, due to her notoriety.
He added: "I've been to Danbury when it was males, I've been to Danbury when it was females.
"It's no fairy tale, it's no Disneyland, it's a prison."
But Mr Donson said if Maxwell is sent to Danbury, she won't be housed in the lower-security "camp" .
"She would be in the secure Danbury place," he added.
"It's no country club, but it's not serious violence or this like that.
"There's women there doing more than 10 years and things like that, like her. There's long-termers in there.
"There's politics and she's high-profile, so she's a target."
Maxwell's new address will be determined through a points system, which decides whether she's high or low risk.
Unlike the male system there is no "medium-risk" grading for women, Mr Donson explained.
He said: "For instance, I told you there are no such thing as medium security.
"But if she totals between 16 to 30 points she's low security. But if she hits 31 points she becomes high security.
"If she becomes high security, that's a secure women's facility, where it's a serious penitentiary."
The jail will not be like a high security male lock-up, where gangs and extreme violence are rife, but she will be living with "seriously violent women," Mr Donson adds.
"She's going to have a difficult time, no matter where she ends up just because of her notoriety. She's got an uphill battle in all of this," he said.
"She's going to have her cling-ons and she's going to have her haters and she's going to have a lot of baggage."
There are several factors which could affect her classification, and her lawyers may be able to push for her to be moved away from the general population by going into protective custody.
As the offence is her first and she's 60 years old with a university-level education, she will be able to avoid the more violent facilities, Mr Donson explained.
He told The Mirror: "And so the bottom line is even in her worst case scenario. She's technically low security, because there is no medium."
