The ethical compass of nursing demands advocacy, often pushing nurses to the frontline of difficult institutional battles. For registered nurse Noella Turnage, that battlefield was the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and the focus of her ethical stand is one of the nation's most high-profile inmates: Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child-sex trafficker serving a 20-year sentence in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Turnage has emerged as a key whistleblower. She alleges that her firing came after she raised concerns about inmate care and workplace conditions, and she later provided members of Congress with copies of Maxwell’s emails that she believes show the inmate receiving preferential treatment at FCI Bryan — raising broader questions about inmate equality, nursing ethics, and transparency within the prison healthcare system.

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Who Is Prison Nurse Noella Turnage?

Turnage’s nursing background matters. Nurses understand systems, policies, ethics, patient rights, and vulnerabilities.

Since 2019, she worked as a nurse at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where Maxwell is now serving her sentence. Turnage built her career as a Bureau of Prisons nurse who, according to her own statements to NBC News, advocated for “common human decency and doing what's right for all...

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