After being eliminated from the basic population in jail, Ghislaine Maxwell stays on suicide watch hours prior to her sentencing.
Per NBC News New York, Maxwell’s lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, composed to the court over the weekend, describing that her customer was put on suicide watch at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center on June 24, and has actually stayed there since June 27.
Steinheim likewise stated that in addition to her typical clothes and legal documents being eliminated, Maxwell was provided a “suicide smock” to use however preserved that her customer “is not suicidal.”
In reaction, per NBC News, district attorneys composed to the court on June 26, mentioning that Maxwell herself e-mailed the Bureau of Prison’s Inspect General [IG] on June 24, stating that she “feared MDC staff members were threatening her safety.”
In their letter, district attorneys described that per the prison’s policy, when prisoners are at an increased danger of self-harm and raise a security issue, they are placed on suicide watch, including that a minimum of “two other inmates recently experienced the same protocol.”
