Ghislaine Maxwell will be a target in her brutal new prison as she's sentenced to 20 years for sex crimes, according to a US federal prison expert.
She's been jailed for two decades for trafficking underage girls to her paedo financier boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein and his lecherous cronies.
Her lawyers had argued she should serve no more than four or five years in prison, claiming she's been subjected to "inhumane conditions" in the jails she's lived in since 2020.
The length of her term has been decided as 20 years during the much-anticipated hearing, where she will be sent will be decided in the upcoming weeks.
But the judge has recommended the Danbury Federal Correctional Institute in Connecticut - the inspiration for the fictional prison in the Netflix show Orange Is The New Black.
Shortly after the verdict was read in December, reports suggested Maxwell was headed for a jail "like Disneyland" in comparison to the "wretched, dank, cold" Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where she was awaiting trial.
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The Brooklyn nick is "arguably the worst detention centre in America", one report claimed.
But Federal Prison Consultant Jack Donson told The Mirror that Danbury Federal Correctional Institute, is "no country club" and that Maxwell will be a target no matter where she goes.
He said: "She's going to end up in a secure, female prison regardless. You know, not high security but it won't be a camp.
"It's very unlikely, in my opinion, that she will end up in a high security prison. Instead she'll end up in a low security, what they refer to as a Federal Correctional Institution."
Mr Donson said prison officials will likely choose to house Maxwell far from major areas, like New York, due to her notoriety.
He added: "I've been to Danbury when it was males, I've been to Danbury when it was females.
"It's no fairy tale, it's no Disneyland, it's a prison."
But Mr Donson said if Maxwell is sent to Danbury, she won't be housed in the lower-security "camp" .
"She would be in the secure Danbury place," he added.
"It's no country club, but it's not serious violence or this like that.
"There's women there doing more than 10 years and things like that, like her. There's long-termers in there.
"There's politics and she's high-profile, so she's a target."
Maxwell's new address will be determined through a points system, which decides whether she's high or low risk.
Unlike the male system there is no "medium-risk" grading for women, Mr Donson explained.
He said: "For instance, I told you there are no such thing as medium security.
"But if she totals between 16 to 30 points she's low security. But if she hits 31 points she becomes high security.
"If she becomes high security, that's a secure women's facility, where it's a serious penitentiary."
The jail will not be like a high security male lock-up, where gangs and extreme violence are rife, but she will be living with "seriously violent women," Mr Donson adds.
"She's going to have a difficult time, no matter where she ends up just because of her notoriety. She's got an uphill battle in all of this," he said.
"She's going to have her cling-ons and she's going to have her haters and she's going to have a lot of baggage."
There are several factors which could affect her classification, and her lawyers may be able to push for her to be moved away from the general population by going into protective custody.
As the offence is her first and she's 60 years old with a university-level education, she will be able to avoid the more violent facilities, Mr Donson explained.
He told The Mirror: "And so the bottom line is even in her worst case scenario. She's technically low security, because there is no medium."
Maxwell previously said she has shared her current dingy cell with rats and claimed her food was infested with maggots.
Her legal team has said she's enduring "living hell" at the New York facility.
She stood trial on a raft of grooming and sex trafficking charges, relating to four girls between 1997 and 2004.
The main charge was for sex trafficking minors, carrying a maximum sentence of 40 years.
Three of the accusers testified at the trial that Maxwell herself inappropriately touched them when they were teenagers.
Maxwell - daughter of press baron Robert Maxwell - pleaded not guilty to all charges.
She was found guilty of five child sex trafficking charges after a four-week trial and six days of deliberation in New York.
