(Bloomberg) -- Ghislaine Maxwell could spend her 20-year sentence in the low-security facility that was the inspiration for the women’s prison in Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black.”

US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan recommended that Maxwell serve her time in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, a 1000-inmate facility about 55 miles from New York City. Maxwell’s lawyers requested she be sent to Danbury following her sentencing on Tuesday.

Piper Kerman chronicled her 15-month stint at Danbury on drug charges in a book that was later adapted into the series. The comedy-drama, which featured a fictionalized version of Kerman called Piper Chapman, was one of the streaming service’s first original productions.

Danbury also previously housed reality TV star Teresa Giudice of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” who pleaded guilty to hiding assets to avoid taxation, and hotel magnate Leona Helmsley, who was convicted of tax evasion in 1989.

The judge’s recommendation doesn’t guarantee Maxwell ends up in Danbury. The federal Bureau of Prisons doesn’t comment on individual cases, but factors considered in assigning inmates include the “security and supervision the inmate requires, any medical or programming needs, separation and security measures to ensure the inmates protection, and other considerations including proximity to an individual’s release residence,” a spokesman said Tuesday.

Of the 157,500 inmates currently in the federal prison system, fewer than 11,000 -- around 7% -- are women. Only 29 of 122 BOP facilities house female inmates, and 11 of those are short-term lockups like the Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where Maxwell was held before trial. 

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