Attorneys representing Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged former madam of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, just revealed in a Monday court filing that the 58 year-old British socialite is being monitored by jail psychologists for several hours a day without her knowledge.

CNN reported that her lawyers said that Maxwell is kept isolated under 24-hour video surveillance and subjected to constant observation by multiple guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. She is being held there until her trial, which is scheduled to take place in July of 2021, after a judge deemed her to pose a significant flight risk given her immense wealth and international connections.

In a letter to US District Court Judge Alison Nathan filed late Monday, Maxwell’s legal team claimed that they just found out the “some of these prison guards were, in fact, BOP psychologists who were observing Ms. Maxwell and evaluating her for hours each day without her knowledge. We are aware of no other pretrial detainee receiving such treatment.”

They cited this as another reason that Nathan should transfer Maxwell to the general population of the prison, something they have been trying to get her to do for over a week. They previously argued that Maxwell is only being kept in these condition because of Epstein’s suicide in prison in August of 2019, In contrast to him, they say Maxwell has never been diagnosed as suicidal and the current conditions treat her unfairly.

Her attorneys claimed in their letter that the socialite has been limited to just 30 minutes a month for personal phone calls, compared with 500 minutes given to other inmates awaiting trial. They also said that Maxwell isn’t even given a desk or surface to take notes on when she is reviewing evidence for her case, and that she was recently denied access to the jail’s commissary.

Prosecutors fired back last week by arguing that Maxwell should not be moved to the general population of the prison for “reasons including safety, security, and the orderly functioning of the facility.”

Maxwell “will be placed into the general population if and when BOP is assured that such placement would not pose a threat to the orderly operation of the institution,” they argued.

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