Why did Ghislaine Maxwell do what she did? | Moira Donegan

Trying to rationalize Maxwell's actions evades what is truly terrifying about the dark center of the Epstein saga

Days after Ghislaine Maxwell met with the deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, the convicted child sex trafficker and longtime Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend and procurer was moved from a women's federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a so-called prison camp" in Texas, a dramatically more comfortable minimum-security environment with dormitory-style housing and fewer guards, sometimes called Club Fed".

Maxwell's new camp primarily houses nonviolent offenders, and the inmates there are reportedly livid, and probably not a little bit frightened, to be imprisoned with one of the world's most notorious sex traffickers and alleged rapists. Maxwell, too, was not initially eligible for such a transfer, due to her sex offender status; connections at the Department of Justice had to waive a procedural requirement in order for the move to go through.