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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

A nurse, Noella Turnage, has been fired after blowing the whistle on the preferential treatment being given to Ghislaine Maxwell at the federal prison camp where the Trump administration recently transferred the convicted sex trafficker. Turnage says she was originally retaliated against after expressing internal complaints about conditions at the prison and was then fired the day after the Trump administration was notified that she had made a whistleblower complaint to Congress.

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... "I actually emailed them from work, from my Bureau of Prisons email address, and said, Hey, this is who I am, this is where I work, and I have some things I think you might be interested in, and documents you may be interested in,'" Turnage told KBTX. "I didn't even specify what it was." ...

"They call it prison jail," Turnage told KBTX. "I would be looking for any evidence that they're doing something they shouldn't be. Like, are they trying to smuggle in drugs? Are they doing this? Are they whatever? But these women aren't risking that, not for the most part. And same as emails, you're monitoring for anything they shouldn't be doing. Usually on the phone, the biggest thing you run into is they'll call a family member who then conference calls somebody else that they're not supposed to be talking to."

The warden at the federal prison, Tanisha Hall, personally handled all incoming mail addressed to Maxwell, Turnage said. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 12:19 PM | Reply

When you populate an administration with people who pass muster with Trump, expect a clusterflook which, in this instance, takes the form of a poorly organized coverup. And in the world of botched coverups, this one really is a wowzah.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-19 12:34 PM | Reply

@#2 ... And in the world of botched coverups, this one really is a wowzah. ...

Yup.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 12:36 PM | Reply

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