The fact that she has been accused of serious crimes isn’t to say that Maxwell should be thrown into a dungeon and left to sustain herself on foraged possum. I strongly believe that all incarcerated people should be held in humane conditions and given a chance to rehabilitate themselves. Alas, that’s far from the case. While Maxwell apparently does pilates and plays with puppies, prisoners without the sort of connections she has are rotting away.
This is particularly true of women in the US, who are disproportionately locked up in jails rather than state prisons. According to a 2024 report by the Prison Policy Initiative, more than 60% of women in jails under local control haven’t been convicted of a crime yet and are awaiting trial. This, the Prison Policy Initiative posits, is because “incarcerated women, who have lower incomes than incarcerated men, have an even harder time affording money bail.” Local jails tend to offer fewer services and programs than prisons do and offer more limited communication options; it’s significantly more expensive to call people from jail than prison, for example.
-Arwa Mahwawi: The Guardian
Greene said she had broken with the US president over several issues, including the issuing of H-1B visas to skilled foreign workers, a ban on AI regulation, “50-year mortgage scams”, involvement in foreign wars, and the release of files related to the crimes of Epstein, the late pedophile Trump socialized with for more than 15 years.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the president of the United States, whom I fought for,” Greene said.
Greene has been an outspoken opponent of Israel’s war on Gaza, with US support, calling it “a genocide”.
-The Guardian