Jeffrey Epstein's new Palm Beach home -- it could have been worse

What a shocker: Sounds like Jeffrey Epstein got some preferential treatment in his prostitution charge plea deal.  Circuit judge Deborah Dale Pucillo was critical of two of the conditions -- that he get to have "his fancy-pantsy private psychiatrist"  for his sex-offender treatment, and that he gets to serve his time in county jail rather than in state prison where as a sex offender he might have gotten some pretty rough treatment...

As for sending him to jail, Pucillo said, "There's significant budget cuts in the county already, and sending him to the county jail and not the Department of Corrections is a significant cost to the taxpayer and the county - are you sure that's what you want to do?"

Both Belohlavek and Epstein's lawyer, Jeffrey Goldenberg, said yes, and the judge rolled her eyes as she granted the request.

A newly released inmate from the Stockade - the jail where Epstein will live for the next 18 months - said he's lucky not to be going to state prison.

"He's probably better off here," the man said. "If there's someone who did something with kids or any sex crimes, they get f- - -ed up there. He probably would get killed over there for messing with a little girl."

Epstein's new digs are pictured above.

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