HUNTER: How did sicko sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell get soft prison ride?

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In crime and courts, perception can be everything.

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Canadian judges often moan about “cruel and unusual” treatment and fret about the actions of cops throwing the system into “disrepute.” Of course, they never speak that way about victims. Only violent criminals.

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There is no “cruel and unusual” for victims of sexual assault, murder and human trafficking. It is decidedly a one-way street.

To the hoi polloi across the planet, “disrepute” is the word of the day when it comes to the soft ride won by disgraced socialite turned sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

For years, the stiletto-thin brunette with the contact book chock full of the names of some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world was effectively billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s second banana.

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Maxwell, 63, recruited, groomed, and reportedly sexually abused vulnerable underage girls from her gilded perch. The sex trafficking victims were the main items on the couple and their coterie of like-minded monsters’ sexual buffet.

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Now, Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking, has been moved to one of America’s cushiest federal prisons. And the questions are: Why and why now?

U.S. President Donald Trump has just torpedoed the unsealing of the damning Epstein files that would no doubt trigger a tabloid tsunami in Washington, Wall Street, London and Hollywood.

This is not to suggest Trump has done anything wrong, but perception is everything. The president was one of the loudest voices in demanding that the files be unsealed.

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And it looks bad. Very bad. Trump has claimed he was unaware of the clandestine move, which is difficult to believe given the volatility of the matter.

Evil Maxwell is now settled in a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas. These joints aren’t for sex traffickers.

On a Facebook group for Bureau of Prisons employees, the verdict among corrections officers is utter shock.

One wrote: “Since when are sex offenders allowed at the camp? I don’t care who she snitched on; she’s a damn human trafficker.”

However, one guard was delighted to see the back of the snobby sex trafficker.

“Glad to be rid of her,” the person wrote. “She is an absolute pain in the ass.”

Still, one retired prison official told NBC News that in his 27 years on the job, he couldn’t recall an instance in which a sex offender was moved to a prison camp. Vito Maraviglia said it would be easier for her to escape — and easier for someone to target the loathsome rich girl for death.

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“The logic to me is not there,” he added. “It doesn’t pass the smell test.”

Former Bureau of Prisons chief of internal affairs, Robert Hood, said Maxwell’s transfer to the camp in Bryan is a “travesty of justice.”

“To relocate a sex offender serving 20 years to a country club setting is offensive to victims and others serving similar crimes,” Hood said.

Now, even Trump supporters and the MAGA base are slamming the commander-in-chief for not releasing the Epstein files. Maxwell’s transfer came on the heels of her and her lawyer answering questions from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for nine hours over two days.

“You ever hear of the old ‘Club Fed’ they used to talk about? This is one of those places,” said corrections union president John Lepird. “It’s really a great place to do your time if you’re an inmate. It’s very odd.”

He added: “The best I can say is there is some kind of cooperation involved.”

Ghislaine Maxwell thought her victims were low-rent “trash.” And her vile life of privilege marches on to the inevitable day, perhaps not too far in the distance, when her wealthy friends quietly lobby to free her.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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