Donald Westlake wrote a great novel years ago called Help I Am Being Held Prisoner. In the book, the main character gets sent to prison for a practical joke gone wrong. He happens to fall in with a group of prisoners who, it turns out, have an escape tunnel to the outside. Rather than using it to actually escape, which would expose the existence of the tunnel and subject them to a manhunt, they instead use it to go out and about in the real world while making sure they’re back in the prison just for morning and evening roll call. That way, they serve out their sentences while still being able to live life and commit more crimes to fund the entire operation.
I always wonder if a high-profile, obvious intelligence asset like Maxwell is given a similar situation in federal prison. Maybe she’s actually able to live a comfortable life somewhere nearby in anonymity, and they just trot her out in the prison once in a while for show. She could spend her free time hanging out with Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Jeffery Epstein (just kidding - possibly).
No, I wasn’t referencing anything other than the plot of the Westlake novel. But the tidbit you mention certainly gives additional credence to the concept of an imprisonment that is not really a full imprisonment like normal people get.
I have posed the same question to a few RL friends… Alot of people question if Epstein really killed himself or if he was blatantly assasinated in Prison… I ask if he is just living on a 250 million dollar yacht in international waters with no change in lifestyle other than not going in public anymore…
Donald Westlake wrote a great novel years ago called Help I Am Being Held Prisoner. In the book, the main character gets sent to prison for a practical joke gone wrong. He happens to fall in with a group of prisoners who, it turns out, have an escape tunnel to the outside. Rather than using it to actually escape, which would expose the existence of the tunnel and subject them to a manhunt, they instead use it to go out and about in the real world while making sure they’re back in the prison just for morning and evening roll call. That way, they serve out their sentences while still being able to live life and commit more crimes to fund the entire operation.
I always wonder if a high-profile, obvious intelligence asset like Maxwell is given a similar situation in federal prison. Maybe she’s actually able to live a comfortable life somewhere nearby in anonymity, and they just trot her out in the prison once in a while for show. She could spend her free time hanging out with Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Jeffery Epstein (just kidding - possibly).
Are you slyly referring to this?
Jeffrey Epstein was granted a six-day-a-week work-release during his 13-month jail term 2008. Epstein worked in his private office 12 hours a day, six days a week, while staying in a private wing of the Palm Beach County jail — reserved, reportedly, for “snitches or others who need protection from other inmates for various reasons, such as having a lot of money,”
No, I wasn’t referencing anything other than the plot of the Westlake novel. But the tidbit you mention certainly gives additional credence to the concept of an imprisonment that is not really a full imprisonment like normal people get.
I have posed the same question to a few RL friends… Alot of people question if Epstein really killed himself or if he was blatantly assasinated in Prison… I ask if he is just living on a 250 million dollar yacht in international waters with no change in lifestyle other than not going in public anymore…
Maxwell is not an intelligence asset. And people just might recognize a globally famous heinous criminal being out and about.
She has “hidden” before.
August 2019: Epstein is found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial
2 July 2020: Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested by the FBI at her New Hampshire home. She was tracked down by the FBI using data from her mobile phone.