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Trump's prison director fires back at outrage over luxury treatment of Epstein lackey
Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein. Photograph via ShutterstockLuxury for the Powerful, Prison for Everyone ElseThe Real PowerThe story is not about a prison transfer in the abstract. It is about a federal bureaucracy bending around a politically radioactive inmate because the people with actual power wanted a problem to go away. Maxwell was moved to a minimum-security facility in Bryan, Texas, despite the usual rules barring sex offenders from that kind of camp, and the timing matters: the move came as the administration was trying to secure her testimony and cool public anger over the…
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