Ghislaine Maxwell kept awake at night so she doesn't die like Epstein, lawyers say

[Eugene]

Related:
• Ghislaine Maxwell is woken up in her cell every 15 minutes by flashlight to see if 'she is breathing,' her lawyer says (CNN)
• Ghislaine Maxwell's sleep loss in jail concerns judges (Associated Press)

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Source: The Guardian and agencies

Ghislaine Maxwell kept awake at night so she doesn’t die like Epstein, lawyers say

Appeals judges expressed concern about guards shining light into the British socialite’s cell every 15 minutes

Guardian staff and agencies
Mon 26 Apr 2021 20.48 BST

Appeals judges hearing bail arguments seemed sympathetic on Monday to claims that the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is unjustly kept awake at night by guards ensuring she doesn’t die in jail in New York – in the way that Jeffrey Epstein did in 2019 while awaiting his sex trafficking trial.

Two of three judges on a second US circuit court of appeals panel in Manhattan expressed concern about light shone in her cell every 15 minutes at night as Federal Bureau of Prisons (BoP) guards make sure she is breathing.

They did not, however, seem necessarily inclined to free Maxwell, 59, on bail before a 12 July trial on charges that she procured teenage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse – and sometimes joined in the abuse.

She has pleaded not guilty. Bail has been rejected three times since her arrest last July.

“Is she a suicide risk or not?” the circuit judge Richard Sullivan asked the assistant US attorney Lara Pomerantz.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/ghislaine-maxwell-jail-guards-jeffrey-epstein

[mahina]

1. If she wasn't, that would do it

That’s torture.

[enough]

2. Yes.

[Goonch]

3. ;-{)

[Treefrog]

4. Not letting someone sleep is torture.

Our criminal justice system is fucked beyond repair, and it saddens me to see how many posters here seem to be in favor of horrible treatment to prisoners.

[PortTack]

6. Our system is broken in many ways. Do you think a POC would be given the same consideration?

I can’t sleep, so I’d like to go home.

[harumph]

7. I don't think people are understanding what is going on.

If she's on suicide watch, the guards have to shine a flashlight in her cell. They're not
shining it her face - or they're not supposed to. Typically suicide precautions in your run of the mill mental hospital or a prison involve
a worker/guard to shine a light in a room such that the ambient light (edge of cone) shows the sleeping person breathing.
It's supposed to be as discreet as possible and mindful of the sleeping person.
IMO, she and her attorneys are using this as an excuse to give her bail at which point she'll disappear.
And really, fuck this entitled POS pimp. I wouldn't believe anything she or her attorneys say.

[PSPS]

5. Shining a flashlight on her wakes her up?