Ghislaine Maxwell‘s brother Ian Maxwell said he fears for the safety of his sister, who is behind bars in Tallahassee’s federal prison, serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking along with Jeffrey Epstein. While the family appeals for her release now that the US administration closed the Jeffrey Epstein case, Ian Maxwell said Ghislaine could be killed in jail, like Epstein was. The DOJ and the FBI closed the case and said Epstein killed himself in his prison cell and was not murdered. “There’s such overcrowding in Tallahassee that higher-category prisoners are being placed there and it’s becoming a facility that is more dangerous – we’ve got to get her out of there,” the brother said to DailyMail.“Normally she spends a lot of time in the prison library helping other prisoners with things like form filling, but she has to go from A to B and isn’t always surrounded by guards.“It’s a possibility someone might get to her. I don’t want to be dramatic but you can’t discount it. Look what happened to Epstein.”Maxwell’s family said she did not get a fair trial and she was never called to testify before Congress. Ian revealed that Maxwell’s legal team is making a last-ditch effort involving new evidence. “It’s not a done deal,” he said.“About 10,000 petitions are lodged each year and they only hear 200 to 250 cases.”But if that fails, the family says they’ll take another legal route.“If they don’t hear Ghislaine’s case… we will go another route and file a writ of habeas corpus which allows a prisoner to challenge their imprisonment on the basis of new evidence, such as government misconduct.”“I fully believe my sister is innocent and that she will be released someday in the future,” Ian said.The family has issued a recent statement after the case was closed and it was announced that Epstein did not have a client list. “Our sister Ghislaine did not receive a fair trial. Her legal team continues to fight her case in the courts and will file its reply in short order to the government’s opposition in the US Supreme Court.”“If necessary, in due course they will also file a writ of habeas corpus in the US District Court, SDNY. This allows her to challenge her imprisonment based on new evidence, such as government misconduct that would have likely changed the trial’s outcome,” the statement said.
