Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to prison for 20 years on charges of sex trafficking crimes against minors. Following her punishment, the disgraced socialite's lawyers requested the jury to allow Maxwell to serve her sentence at Netflix-inspired Orange Is The New Black Series prison and that she should be enrolled in a female treatment program to address past familial and other trauma.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers want the former socialite to serve her sentence in the prison which inspired the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black.
On June 28, Tuesday, Maxwell was given a 20 year sentence on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
The sentence comes 6 months after Epstein's girlfriend was found guilty by jury on charges of luring teenage girls for her boyfriend to sexually abuse.
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She has been sentenced to prison bar until she is 80 and was also handed a $750,000 (£615,000) fine by sentencing judge Alison Nathan in the Manhattan Federal Court.
Now her lawyers have requested the jury to allow Maxwell to serve her sentence in a prison that holds a strong connection to a hit incarceration series on Netflix.
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Bobbi C. Sternheim, a veteran lawyer in New York, acknowledged the victim's pain in the case and requested that the disgraced socialite be sent to the BOP woman’s facility in Danbury, Connecticut.
Additionally, they requested for the socialite to be enrolled in a female treatment program to address past familial and other trauma, The New York Times reports.
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FCI Danbury - the prison that Maxwell's attorney has requested for has a connection to the infamous Netflix series Orange Is The New Black.
Piper Kerman, who is now an American author, served 13 months of a 15-month sentence, which she began in FCI Danbury back in 2004.
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She was jailed on charges of felonious money-laundering activities, which she was indicted for in 1998, reports Digital Spy.
After her release, she wrote a memoir of her time behind bars, titled: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison.
This later inspired the hit Netflix series, which premiered in 2013 and has since ran for seven seasons.
The fictional Litchfield prison in the series is based strongly upon Kerman's recollections from her time in FCI Danbury, so her experiences are something Maxwell could potentially be facing if the Federal Bureau of Prisons grants her lawyer's request.
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Shortly before Maxwell received her sentence, she spoke in court about the pain she caused to her victims and apologized for the pain that they experienced from her hands and Epstein.
Maxwell stated that she hopes her sentence will give peace to her victims.
She said: "To you, all the victims that came to today inside the court and outside… I am sorry for the pain you have experienced.
"I hope my sentence… brings you closure… peace and finality. To help you put those experiences in a place that helps you move forward."
She then added that the knowledge of the effects of her crimes 'tortures me every single day', and that she hoped the sentence 'brings this terrible chapter to an end and… help you travel from darkness into the light'.
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"It is hard for me to address the court after listening to the pain and anguish expressed in the statements made here.
"The terrible impact on the lives of so many women is difficult to hear and even more difficult to absorb, both in its scale and in its extent.
"I want to acknowledge their suffering. I empathise deeply with all of the victims in this case."
She concluded with: "I know my association with Epstein will follow and and forever stain me. It is the greatest regret of my life that I ever met Jeffrey Epstein."
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