[Gateway] Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was reportedly punished by authorities at the Federal Correctional Institute Tallahassee over a recorded jailhouse interview that aired in January.
The onetime British socialite, who was accused of procuring underage girls for convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, "was handcuffed and slung into solitary confinement for 48 hours after prison authorities accused her of profiting from a media interview," the Daily Mail reported Monday.
"She protested her innocence but was marched off to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) — a ’prison within a prison’ comprising tiny, grim cells where inmates are locked up for 23 hours at a time and fed through slits in the door."
The news outlet quoted unnamed "insiders" as saying that the inmate they know as "Max" "was just minding her own business when they came in, turned her around and handcuffed her."
"She got really upset, she was crying, she was yelling that she hadn’t received any money, but nobody saw her again for three days."
The Mail’s source said, "The SHU is not a nice place."
"It’s like a little box and you’re only allowed out to shower once a day. There’s no contact from anyone, no privileges, they slide your meals through a slot."
According to the report, Maxwell’s interview, which was aired Jan. 23 on TalkTV, would have violated the terms of her 20-year federal prison sentence if she received payment for the appearance.
Also in question was how the interview was obtained. As federal prisoner number 02879-509, she is permitted video calls with only those family members and friends on a list approved by the federal prison, according to the report.
She apparently conducted the interviews during phone calls with her friend, filmmaker Daphne Barak.
Maxwell made headlines for several remarks made during those interviews. 
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