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Ghislaine Maxwell began suicide surveillance after prison officials reported threatening her safety

Ghislaine Maxwellreports that Brooklyn prison officials threatened her safety and urged employees to put her insuicide surveillance. Did. To delay her decision on charges of sexual trafficking.

Maxwell, 60, said in December that he helped Jeffrey Epstein, a boyfriend at the time, a world-class financier and convicted sex offender. He will be convicted and sentenced on Tuesday. } Between 1994 and 2004. Her prosecutor says she deserves a sentence of 30 to 55 years.

In a court filing on Saturday, Maxwell's lawyer said she had been placed under suicide surveillance at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) and demanded that her sentence be postponed. On Sunday, the prosecutor insisted that she didn't need a delay because Maxwell had her legal document and she was able to get the same amount of sleep.

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They said Maxwell was transferred after reporting her safety threats by MDC staff to the Federal Bureau of Prisons inspector general. Stated.

Maxwell refused to elaborate on her why she was afraid of her own safety, the prosecutor said. She told the psychology staff that she was not suicide.

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Maxwell's lawyer did not immediately respond to her request for comment. The prison bureau said it did not comment on the state of confinement of certain prisoners.

The prosecutor said the prison director would oversee the investigation.

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(inspector) and psychologist staff, the chief psychologist may be being transferred to a single cell where the defendant can engage in self-harm. Assess that the defendant is at additional risk of self-harm. She said in a court motion.

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Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan cell in 2019 while waiting for a trial.

The decision is imposed by US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan of the Federal Court of Justice in Manhattan. Maxwell claims she has been made a scapegoat for Epstein's crime, and she wants less than 20 years.

(Report by Luc Cohen in New York, edited by Lisa Shumaker)

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