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Presence of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and former girlfriend has angered fellow inmates at Texas prison camp

Presence of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and former girlfriend has angered fellow inmates at Texas prison camp

Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum-security prison in Texas — commonly referred to as a ‘Club Fed’ — has upset her fellow inmates, who believe she shouldn’t be there given the nature of her crimes.

The disgraced British socialite and former girlfriend of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was quietly transferred this week from a stricter low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a prison camp 100 miles outside Houston, Texas.

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[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 minutes ago

Is anyone surprised by this? This is how you murder her without actually murdering her. The Trump administration knows what it's doing here. Pedophiles are not tolerated in prisons.

They know they can't do what they did to Epstein but they can get inmates to do it.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

Maxwell was moved in secret after being “bombarded” with death threats from rapists who accused her of being a “snitch,” The Daily Mail reports.

When asked, the callers all identified themselves as "John Barron"

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 hours ago

Howell also warned that Maxwell could be a flight risk, given how she evaded the authorities for months before her arrest: “This is a camp you can literally walk out of. I don’t care how many people she turns in; it doesn’t take away from her actions.

Watch her disappear into the ether. The federal "manhunt" will come up empty and no further secrets will be divulged. If she's caught, it'll be after Trump has died and can't be held accountable.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It would be hilarious if she was shanked in the shower.

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 minutes ago

No it would not be hilarious. This is what team Trump wants. Which leads me to believe she wouldn't play ball for the pardon by leaving Trump's name out of it.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Shank that child molesting cunt.

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 minutes ago

This is what team Trump is counting on.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's probably what they want to happen

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 minutes ago

This is exactly what they want to happen

[–] simsalabim@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

So that she cannot testify at all? Bad idea.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

She didn't testify during her trial, why would she give a believable testimony now?

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

She'll lie about everything.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 hours ago

Nonces always get singled out by ODCs (ordinary decent criminals).

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 69 points 14 hours ago

We thought this was a reward, but maybe its actually the 1st step in her planned death. Sex offenders are typically separated from general pop for their protection from the other inmates. The public announcement may have just been the proverbial ringing of the dinner bell.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

She’s about to get shanked with a sharpened spork

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 minute ago

In any other case I'd be all for it. But I can't believe the amount of people here rooting for her to get murdered. She has the information to bring down a lot of wealthy people and perhaps the president.

Cheering for her to be murdered by an inmate is exactly what these bastards want to happen. If she is murdered, Trump will succeed

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Voluntarily fall on a sharpened spork * (no you cannot see the tape)

it was definitely suicide, trust me

-Pam Bondi, probably

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Does Bill Barr, Pam Bondi or another goul have anything to do with Camp Byran?

Minimum security seems like a place someone could easily kill themself.. with the proper help.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

They don’t want her dead, trump wants her to get back to work, so he can have more underage girls

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

All I see is someone capable of talking. She’s a threat.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

She must have one hell of a dead man's switch to still be alive

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

They still need her for now.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 13 hours ago

He's most likely sitting on a list of many people in her line of work that work in the same direction. Ones that are not known worldwide.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Right. Normally I believe every single thing I see on the internet, but do you have a source for theory?

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, ofcourse now her life is in danger, so best to release her from her sentence completely...

[–] HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If that were the case, I have a buddy with a tattoo on his wrist that would have him marked for death for not "earning" it.

It's also a common sign of heritage, especially in that region.

So he should never go to prison for anything because his life would be endangered by a common to the region tattoo?

If that is the case, I need to do some research, get some ink, and make some fucking money.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

That could work... if he knows some dirty secrets on the president too.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago

Send her to alligator alcatraz

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah but none of them are going to risk getting anything tacked on to their sentences.

So she'll get picked last for kickball and it will be the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone in prison.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I wonder if they've quietly moved someone serving life there recently.

[–] lady_maria@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, but some people will in there for life regardless. perhaps one of them will feel an overwhelming urge to dispatch justice. :)

probably not, but a girl can dream.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Camp Fed (Federal Prison Camp Bryan) is a minimum security prison with famously good quality of life.

It is INCREDIBLY unlikely anyone there is serving a life sentence. And, if they were, there is zero chance they would even smack ghislaine around because that would just get them sent to one of the normal hellish US prisons.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Depends, what if say someone in the Department of Justice were offering perks and or a pardon.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If the DoJ is going to be that incredibly blatant as to publicly pardon the murderer of a high profile witness, they would just... I dunno. What if they put her in a cell, cut the camera for 1-4 minutes, and made it look like she hanged herself?

All of which has nothing to do with "upset her fellow inmates" as per the borderline puff piece article.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know at least one of the suspects with regards to esptein is an inmate within the prison he's in. My thought process is it could be another "suicide". IE someone from trumps team finds a viable inmate that would want to murder Maxwell. Grant information on when guards will be out of place, which cameras are currently not working etc... Basically enabling the inmate to stage the suicide without getting caught.

The inmate wanting to comit the murder makes striking a deal easier.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know we all love true crime dramas and mission impossible and all that nonsense.

What makes more sense?

  1. Bring an inmate to a minimum security prison who would otherwise never be anywhere near Club Fed
  2. Promise the inmate that they'll get pardoned after they murder this one loose end
  3. Position them in the cell next to maxwell's
  4. Organize all of the guard routines to give said inmate an opening
  5. Accidentally open the doors to all the prison cells
  6. Hope said inmate gets to maxwell before The Punisher does
  7. Pardon said inmate and immediately piss off the entire magat base

OR: Just do the exact same shit they may or may not have done with epstein himself so that there is no need for questionable pardons.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean off the bat.

  1. Already done.

  2. Perhaps there already is someone in club fed. Hell maybe the deal wasn't for a pardon, but say entrance to club fed for someone else that already doesn't belong there.

  3. Not necesserally, maybe they can declare maxwell in danger, possibly with a puff piece on how all the inmates are hostile to her, so they will have to put her in a block away from where the prisoners are. Maybe an area that's normally closed off due to non-working cameras or something.

  4. Trivial, it's a minimum security prison, shit happens there all the time, there's probably plenty of openings just in normal operation, but a guide would help.

  5. Why all, and again just takes a right oprotunity, maybe that's cells being open at night, or maybe it's just a time maxwell sits in her dorm to read while most prisoners are in the yard or something.

  6. umm... I think that's a problem solved either way.

  7. Doesn't necesserally have to be a pardon, could be a membership to club fed from a less plesent prison before hand, or an offer of a plea deal etc... Also won't neceserally do anything to the magat base if the person isn't named publicly.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 8 points 16 hours ago

Imagine attacking someone and getting an automatic +4 added to your game on the prison golf team, the horror.

[–] opus86@lemmy.today 3 points 15 hours ago

The bribes go both ways apparently.