Maxwell complains of ‘onerous conditions’ at Brooklyn jail
The reaction of federal prison officials to Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide last year is to blame for onerous conditions a British socialite faces at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park while awaiting trial on charges that she procured teenage girls for Epstein to abuse a quarter-century ago, her lawyers said Tuesday.
Through the lawyers, Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, asked a judge to help improve her treatment at the Brooklyn federal lockup, saying “uniquely onerous conditions” limit her computer access and frustrate her ability to provide for a trial scheduled for next July.
They said she should be housed in the general population at the prison rather than under restrictions that would limit her time outside her cell to three hours a day.