Ghislaine Maxwell highlights the conditions at a Brooklyn jail
bail requests, all of which were denied by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan, who called Maxwell a flight risk. Those denials were twice upheld on appeal.
Prosecutors accused two guards responsible for monitoring Epstein of surfing the web, taking naps and manipulating documents to make it seem they were watching him. In May, the guards admitted to falsifying records but avoided jail time. Maxwell's concerns are a part of a long history of complaints about conditions at MDC, which opened in 1994 and holds 1,676 inmates., said in a court filing last week that he would begin a hunger strike to call attention to "torturous conditions" at the jail, including sleep deprivation and exposure to extreme cold. Schulte has pleaded not guilty.
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