Zero Tolerance: Fellow Prisoners Punished for Crossing Maxwell

We have all heard that there is a code among inmates, that there is a stratification or classification amidst competing power structures, and, so the story goes, no one is lower on the list than sex offenders. Ghislaine Maxwell starts as a hated class of inmate, even before one throws other liabilities into the equation, rich, a sense of entitlement, and powerful friends. Now, though, the stories are making it out from Camp Bryan, her new home at “Club Fed” – a resor… a “prison” in which the inmates have puppy training class, yoga, and work privileges outside the facility. And the number one rule appears to be “hands off” with respect to Maxwell, and that’s not meant to be purely physical.

The latest reports come to us from Rawstory, in which we first see that Maxwell’s attorney takes umbrage at the fact that liberals are decrying the unwarranted promotion to relatively luxurious digs:

“I’m surprised to hear my progressive friends criticizing more humane prisons and Ghislaine’s transfer to a safer facility, especially after she faced serious danger in Tallahassee,” tweeted Maxwell’s attorney David O. Markus, who added that his client was moved because she needed “safer placement.” “The outrage machine wants to turn a safer placement into a scandal.”

Objection, assumes facts not in evidence. Nothing indicates that any liberal wants Maxwell “unsafe” from other prisoners or the public; indeed, the looser the rules around Maxwell, the harder it would be to keep her entirely safe from either fellow inmates or someone from the outside. This is purely cover, and it insults one’s intelligence to hear otherwise. He would be better off simply saying, “My job is to serve my client, that’s all I have to say.” And leave it at that.

Moving on, fellow inmates don’t seem to appreciate that rules were waived to get Maxwell into their exclusive club. That might be understandable; perhaps many of them actually worked long and hard to earn the privilege of the “minimum security” lodgings.

“She’s not making any friends – radioactive,” said Sam Mangel, a prison consultant who works with clients at the prison camp. “Nobody’s going to rock the boat there. They want to serve the remainder of their sentences with whatever modicum of comfort Bryan provides.”

Well, it is a good idea not to rock any boat while in prison – at least one assumes. But it sounds as though there is ample evidence already that anyone making too much noise will be punished for it.

A prisoner named Julie Howell said she was “disgusted” by Maxwell’s transfer to Bryan in a statement provided to The Daily Telegraph by the inmate’s husband. But after publication, prison officials pulled her out of a puppy-training class at the camp and transferred her to another federal detention center in Houston, according to her lawyer and the Bureau of Prisons. “Nobody’s going to say anything about Ghislaine Maxwell now, are you kidding?” said Howell’s lawyer Patrick McLain.

Wow, Maxwell must have friends in high places to pull off the ultimate weapon in prison, the ability to send “pests” away, even from pets. Except who befriends notorious child sex-traffickers? We can only guess.

Perhaps the most offensive element of the Maxwell move is just how “in your face” the whole thing is. It is facially corrupt, laughably corrupt, almost pathetically corrupt, and it doesn’t matter. One wonders if the Trump administration spent even a minute worrying about the optics of it all or, worse, didn’t care in the slightest, their rule is cemented in already.

Sadly, it is almost sadder if it is true that the White House no longer cares about appearances. Appearances are so “out” nowadays. Those things only mattered in a democratic republic. No more.

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