Ghislaine Maxwell is transferred from squalid cramped prison unit to cushy 'honor dorm' at FCI Tallahassee as she seeks to overturn sex trafficking conviction

A federal appeals court may not overturn her 20-year sentence for pimping girls for Jeffrey Epstein - but at least Ghislaine Maxwell has escaped a violence-plagued prison wing nicknamed the 'snake pit'.

Bosses at FCI Tallahassee agreed to transfer the notorious madam out of the jail's squalid B South unit where 120 inmates are crammed into tiny cubicles of four bunks, DailyMail.com can reveal. 

Insiders say fights and bullying are routine as convicts squabble over what to watch on TV and face long lines to use phones and computers.

But Maxwell's cushy new digs in D South – the so-called 'honor dorm' – are reserved for 30 to 40 of the low-security Florida lockup's best-behaved prisoners.

There are two bunks per cell but so few occupants that the disgraced British socialite, 62, is almost guaranteed to have her own room as well as four times the storage.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence with a release date of 2037, has escaped a violence-plagued prison wing nicknamed the 'snake pit' at FCI Tallahassee, DailyMail.com has learned 

The disgraced British socialite has been moved to cushy new digs, known at the facility as the 'honor dorm', reserved for the best behaved inmates. Pictured above is one of the single level housing units in the female prison at FCI 

Maxwell had been previously confined to the 'snake pit', a squalid unit where 120 inmates are crammed into tiny cubicles of four bunks. Pictured: A typical inmate cubicle in a single-level housing unit in the female prison 

'In the snake pit there are fights every day. The bullies jump the lines to use the phones and won't let you watch what you want on TV,' a prison source exclusively told DailyMail.com.

'The conditions in D South are more like the sort of thing Maxwell will have experienced when she attended boarding school as a young girl.

'Everything is well-ordered, there's less problems, less drama, fights are unheard of. Everyone gets along because they are so happy to be there.'

Maxwell's lawyers told New York's Second Circuit appeals court this week that she should never have been prosecuted for grooming Epstein's victims because of a provision in his 2008 sweetheart plea deal.

Epstein agreed a much-maligned 13-month work-release arrangement with Florida federal prosecutors which let him spend just a few hours per week in jail for soliciting underage girls for sex.

The deal also granted immunity to a list of the warped financier's alleged co-conspirators - although it didn't mention Maxwell, his ex-lover and chief accomplice, by name.

Maxwell's attorney Arthur Aidala argues she should be covered by the clause but the government says it makes no difference because the deal only applies to Florida.

If the three-judge panel chooses not to toss her 2021 conviction, federal prisoner 02879-509 – or Max as she's known behind bars - won't be eligible for release until July 2037.

FCI Tallahassee has been portrayed as more akin to a holiday camp where inmates can learn new languages, enjoy yoga classes and take part in softball tournaments.

FCI Tallahassee has been portrayed as more akin to a holiday camp where inmates can learn new languages, enjoy yoga classes and take part in softball tournaments

Early reports revealed how the disgraced British socialite had struggled to cope with her new life behind bars, refusing to eat and complaining bitterly to prison authorities that her clothes didn't fit

In a self-serving prison interview last year (pictured) Maxwell denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes, insisting she regretted ever meeting him

But conditions in the aging federal facility are far from fancy for the approximately 750 women and 300 men in a small satellite unit, with a recent inspection uncovering rodent infestations, rotting food and walls smeared with filth.

The ceilings and windows of all five housing units, each divided into north and south, were found to be in such dire need of repair that inmates resorted to plugging leaks with feminine hygiene products.

Worst of the lot is B South, the raucous, crowded home to newcomers where the disgraced daughter of the late UK newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell has been locked up since July 2022.

DailyMail.com reported last May how two Cuban felons were thrown into solitary after they passed Maxwell a threatening note demanding she buy them items from her $360 commissary allowance.

Maxwell's 'bunkies' then complained that she was stinking out their cubicle because of her reluctance to use the showers, the most likely setting to take a beat down in prison.

The Oxford graduate ran screaming for help when one blazing argument ended with an inmate threatening to bash her with a padlock.

She tattled on another cellmate, a transgender firearms offender nicknamed Batman, for having noisy sex with a girlfriend in the bed above her.

Maxwell has also made enemies with the staff by constantly filing misconduct allegations, accusing guards, cleaners and pastors of everything from sexual harassment to discriminating against her Jewish faith.

'Max was in their faces every day until she got her move to D South. She even called the prison chaplain an anti-Semite,' another source explained.

'It looks like they eventually caved and decided she would be less of a headache if she got her own way and lived alone.

'She's been crowing about how much quieter it is and how she can finally stretch her legs. But the girls are really mad she jumped the line.

'There are people here who have not had a single write-up in 10 years and they are still fighting to get a spot.'

Earlier this week Maxwell's lawyers filed an appeal to overturn her conviction for sex trafficking for luring girls as young as 14 to Jeffrey Epstein

Maxwell's close relationship with Epstein was well-documented in public over the years, yet she still denies having knowledge of the dead financier's crimes

Maxwell was convicted on December 29, 2021 on five of the six counts she faced for helping the late financier and convicted sex offender sexually abuse underage girls

Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking minors and multiple counts of conspiracy after a federal trial heard how she lured girls as young as 14 into Epstein's clutches.

Her lawyers asked if she could serve her time at FCI Danbury, the white-collar Connecticut lockup that inspired Orange is the New Black.

She was instead shipped 1000 miles south to Tallahassee where working-class Latinos and blacks make up much of the prison population.

DailyMail.com revealed last month how Maxwell has been writing a tell-all memoir from behind bars to combat what she describes as 'misinformation' about her ties to Epstein's sick grooming empire.

But prison pals don't expect the trafficker to finally come clean because the purpose of the book is to clear Maxwell's name and prove she didn't do anything wrong.

Federal inmates are prohibited from cutting publishing deals but there's nothing to prevent her from writing a 'private manuscript' and mailing it to a lawyer or loved one for distribution.

She doesn't have a computer but has access to a typewriter and can bone up on the legal system via her job in the law library.

In a self-serving prison interview last year, Maxwell denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes, insisting she regretted ever meeting him and had no idea he was 'capable of evil.'

But jurors heard during her 2021 trial she acted as the boss of Epstein's Palm Beach, Florida mansion where she would ensure a constant supply of teenage girls were available for sordid 'massages'.

Epstein was due to go on trial before Maxwell but killed himself in custody in August 2019 before his case could be heard.