https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/15/sheriff-don-barnes-wont-release-prisoners-inmates-community-judge-order-covid-19-coronavirus-aclu/

Orange County, California, Sheriff Don Barnes said Tuesday that he will not release 1,800 prisoners into the community despite a court order that says he must do so to prevent COVID-19 infection.

“I think they present a serious threat,” Barnes said on “Fox & Friends.” “The only inmates remaining now are serious offenders and to order the release of 1,800 inmates, 700 of which would be medically vulnerable, I think is absurd.”

Orange County Civil Court Judge Peter Wilson ordered Barnes to release the 1,800 inmates Tuesday, supporting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that argued the prison was overcrowded and ideally suited for spreading coronavirus.

“Of the medically vulnerable, 90 of them are in custody for murder or attempted murder, 94 for child molestation. It’s an incredible order he placed on me and I have no intention of doing that — of releasing these individuals back into the community,” Barnes argued.

Some California prisoners have been caught deliberating infecting themselves with coronavirus in the hope of being released early from their incarceration.

Buy your way out of prison? $28.5 million

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-proposes-bond-address-flight-risk

Ghislaine Maxwell submitted another request to be released on bail as she awaits trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, this time proposing a $28.5 million bond.

Maxwell, 58, is being held at DMC Brooklyn, a federal detention center in New York. She faces a six-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy and transporting minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and perjury. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Maxwell was denied a proposed $5 million bail earlier in 2020 after the New York judge overseeing the case ruled her "an unacceptable flight risk."

"She has three passports, large sums of money, extensive international connections, and absolutely no reason to stay in the United States to face a potential significant term of incarceration," Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe said. One of Maxwell's passports is French, and France does not extradite citizens.