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Arwa Mahdawi

Why is Ghislaine Maxwell getting the Club Fed treatment?

courtroom sketch of maxwell
‘This isn’t really about Maxwell: it’s about who our legal system protects and who it punishes.’ Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

Ghislaine Maxwell at Club Fed

I don’t know what, if anything, keeps Ghislaine Maxwell up at night. But it’s certainly not the prospect of running out of toilet paper in the minimum-security prison where she’s residing. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. Rather than doing hard time, however, it seems Maxwell is having a relatively easy go of it. While most inmates get an allocation of two rolls of toilet paper per week, for example, CNN reports that Maxwell gets an unlimited supply.

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