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Ghislaine Maxwell could go to Manhattan jail where Jeffrey Epstein died

Ghislaine Maxwell may end up in the same notorious Manhattan jail where her infamous pedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, experts told The Post on Friday.

“They’ll probably keep her at the Metropolitan Correctional Center,” said Jeffrey Lichtman, whose client, drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was held at the Lower Manhattan facility.

“The place is probably the worst federal prison in the country,” Lichtman added of the grim concrete building in Lower Manhattan. “It’s a horror show. That’s putting it mildly. [Maxwell] is really going to pay for the MCC’s failure to keep Epstein safe, and it’s probably going to make it even more restrictive and difficult for her.”

Epstein, 66, hanged himself last year inside his cell after his arrest for the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young women.

Maxwell, 58, was busted in New Hampshire on Thursday on a six-count Manhattan federal indictment for allegedly recruiting underage girls for Epstein, her former lover.

While the disgraced British socialite is currently being held without bail at Merrimack County Jail in New Hampshire, she’s expected to be transferred in the coming days to New York to face trial.

Roland Riopelle, a former Assistant US Attorney with the Southern District of New York, who now works in private practice, said Maxwell could end up at the MCC or the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. But he said the MCC is more likely since the building is connected to the Manhattan federal courthouse.

The Metropolitan Correctional Center
The Metropolitan Correctional CenterChristopher Sadowski

She’ll most likely end up in the Special Housing Unit, known as the SHU or solitary, which has stringent security measures.

“That is where particularly high profile or particularly dangerous inmates sometimes go,” Riopelle said.

Former inmate Franz Michael, who co-founded Prison Consulting Services to help inmates transition to life in the slammer, served a combined six months at MCC and MDC.

“The conditions are so egregious and designed to make a person either cooperate or plead guilty,” he said, recalling the rats that scurried across his cell floor, the freezing winters and the sweltering summers.

He predicted that Maxwell would be put in SHU, which he called “a sad place designed to mess with your psyche.”

Inmates are locked in their cell 23 hours a day with one hour for either solo exercise or an excursion to the law library.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine MaxwellJoe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

Food, usually cold, is slopped on a tray and served through a slot in the door.

“You don’t have any human contact,” he said.

Still, lawyer Dawn Florio, who represented Tekashi 6ix9ine in his federal racketeering case, said it’s possible Maxwell could end up at the Queens Detention Center, a small, privately run federal jail.

Her rapper-turned-snitch client, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, had been locked up there before he was released in April to home confinement due to the pandemic.

“They often put cooperators there for safety reasons,” said Florio, who declined to discuss Tekashi’s case.

She added that conditions at the Queens jail are markedly better than MMC or MDC.

If Maxwell lands at the MCC — sometimes dubbed the “Guantanamo of New York” — authorities are expected to keep a close eye on her after their failure to prevent Epstein’s demise.

“Ghislaine Maxwell is probably the most important federal inmate right now,” said Lichtman. “They are not going to be taking any chances.”

Epstein’s death was officially ruled a suicide by hanging, but a forensic pathologist hired by his brother says he believes Epstein was murdered.