Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged former madam of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is allegedly woken up every fifteen minutes in prison, just to make sure she is still alive.

This was claimed by Maxwell’s attorney Bobbi Sternheim in a letter filed on Tuesday.

“Despite non-stop in-cell camera surveillance Ms. Maxwell’s sleep is disrupted every 15 minutes when she is awakened by a flashlight to ascertain whether she is breathing,” Sternheim wrote, according to CNN.

Maxwell, 58, was arrested back in July on charges related to her allegedly grooming young girls for sex with Epstein, and sometimes participating in the abuse herself. She has been remanded to the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York until her trial, which is scheduled to take place next July. The decision to keep Maxwell behind bars was made after a judge deemed her to pose a significant flight risk, given her immense wealth and international connections.

Sternheim went on to say that Maxwell is “in de facto solitary confinement under the most restrictive conditions” and. that she is “excessively and invasively searched” while also being monitored for 24 hours a day. She also alleged that Maxwell is being monitored by psychologists for several hours every day without her knowledge.

Her lawyer went so far as to claim that Maxwell is kept in conditions that are more restrictive than prisoners convicted of terrorism or capital murder. Epstein managed to commit suicide in prison in August of 2019 while awaiting trial on sex charges of his own, so it is believed that officials are doing everything in their power to make sure that Maxwell doesn’t do the same thing. However, Maxwell’s lawyers have repeatedly argued that she has never been diagnosed as suicidal, using that to argue that the conditions she’s being held in are unfair.

Sternheim asked in her letter that U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan order the MDC’s warden to address the court about the conditions that Maxwell is being held in.

This comes days after Maxwell was placed in quarantine when a staff member who works in her area of the detention center tested positive for COVID-19. Federal prosecutors say that Maxwell herself has since tested negative for coronavirus, and that she has shown no symptoms of the deadly virus.