Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a jail where she will be cavity searched and may get beaten by other inmates for credibility, former warden says

• Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman arrested last week in connection to the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case, is awaiting her July 14 court date in a notoriously tough Brooklyn detention facility.
• Maxwell was transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center on Monday, following her arrest in New Hampshire.
• Cameron Lindsay, a former warden there, told Reuters that other inmates might try to hurt Maxwell as it "would be a badge of honor."
• Lindsay added that conditions were tough inside, saying: "You're being strip-searched and having people look into your body cavities. That is a crushing experience."
• It is a far cry from the life Maxwell, a British socialite, is used to. She was arrested last week in a $1 million New Hampshire mansion.
• Maxwell is charged with procuring girls for Epstein to have sex with. One of Epstein's accusers has accused Maxwell of raping her.

Ghislaine Maxwell is being kept in a notorious jail in Brooklyn, New York, where she will be cavity searched and could be attacked by inmates looking for a credibility boost, the former warden has told Reuters.

Maxwell, who has been charged with helping the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein find underage girls to abuse, was arrested Thursday. On Saturday, one of Epstein's accusers said Maxwell raped her. Maxwell denies the charges.

On Monday, the 58-year-old British socialite was transferred from New Hampshire to the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn to await a July 14 federal court date.

The facility is well-known.

Conditions are said to be woeful, inmates have died in mysterious circumstances, and in January 2019 the jail went without heating for a week. There are multiple confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the jail.

"You go from living a life like Maxwell to all of a sudden being in a situation where you're being strip-searched and having people look into your body cavities," Cameron Lindsay, a former warden at the jail, told Reuters.

"That is a crushing experience."

Maxwell was arrested Thursday at a $1 million, luxury house in New Hampshire. She is thought to have secretly bought the property in cash last year.

Lindsay said Maxwell would either be kept in a 3-meter-by-4-meter cell on her own or be put in a twin cell with a female inmate.

Lindsay said having a cellmate minimized the risk of a suicide but also said some inmates might go after Maxwell to score points.

Hurting her "would be a badge of honor," Lindsay told Reuters.

The jail is the twin institution to the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Epstein, who was also Maxwell's one-time boyfriend, killed himself in 2019 as he awaited trial for sex-trafficking charges.

"Somebody made the conscious decision, 'Let's not house her where Epstein was housed,'" Jack Donson, a former official at the Bureau of Prisons, told the Associated Press.

Lindsay told the AP that the MDC was "one of the most troubled" facilities in the US, with a "unique history of staff misconduct."

Maxwell, however, may not be in the facility for much longer.

"She's got a 25% to 40% chance of getting out due to coronavirus," David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor from Florida, told the New York Daily News.

"She's got a much better chance than Epstein had of getting out."