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Last month, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with five years of supervised release, at the federal court in the Southern District of New York.

She has appealed her child sex trafficking conviction and her legal team is hard at work to make her life behind bars as comfortable as possible.

Maxwell was expected to serve her time in the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, which is famed for being the prison that inspired the hit series, Orange Is the New Black.

Instead, reports The New York Post, she was moved last Friday to FCI Tallahassee (below), a “low-security federal correctional institution” in Florida with many perks:

While she will be woken every morning at 6 a.m., she will get plenty of movement and activities, unlike the solitary confinement she mostly was subject to while held in the Big Apple.

…she will be free to get weekly visits with up to four adults and eight kids at any one time.

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The handbook notes programs of occupational training, with apprenticeships and courses in horticulture and even cosmetology…

“Programs include indoor and outdoor activities, and range from individualized arts and crafts programs to intramural team sports such as softball, basketball, and volleyball,” the handbook notes.

Sounds pretty cushy to me, considering what she has been locked up for.

The most popular programs at the prison are frisbee, flag football, pilates, and yoga and there are also “talent shows” and “movies” on offer.

FCI Tallahassee is roughly 580 kilometres from Jeffrey Epstein’s now-demolished Palm Beach mansion where some of the abuse is said to have occurred.

According to AP News, she’s not the first high-profile figure to end up there:

Maxwell is joining a short list of notable people who’ve served time at FCI Tallahassee, including Maria Butina, the Russian secret agent who tried to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups, and Colleen LaRose, known as “Jihad Jane” for providing material support to terrorists. Butina was released in 2019 and deported to Russia. LaRose was released in 2018.

Should she choose to, Maxwell will be allowed to wear a plain wedding band. The decision may be taken out of her hands, though, with reports suggesting her marriage to Scott Borgerson is all but over.

The 60-year-old disgraced former socialite told the court during her trial that meeting Epstein was “the greatest regret of my life”.

Multiple victims would likely say the same about crossing paths with her.

[sources:nypost&apnews]