It’s Thanksgiving for Ghislaine, Diddy, and Luigi. Only one of them gets a drumstick.

Ghislaine, Diddy, and Luigi surrounded by Thanksgiving food
  • Ghislaine Maxwell, Sean "Diddy" Combs, and Luigi Mangione all have different Thanksgiving day menus.
  • Only one of these newsworthy inmates will be served a drumstick, considered a potential weapon.
  • The other two must eat warmed-over, pre-cut turkey slices — with a spork.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Sean "Diddy" Combs, and Luigi Mangione are all spending Thanksgiving in federal lockup this year.

It's the fifth Turkey Day behind bars for Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking women and girls to Jeffrey Epstein. It's the second year behind bars for music mogul Combs, who's serving four years for transporting sex workers, and the first for Mangione, accused in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Each will eat their prison poultry at the ungodly hour of 11 a.m., the universal time across the federal system for the main hot meal of the day. Talk about an Early Bird special.

But because these newsworthy inmates are housed at three different federal facilities, they'll each experience different menus and table settings.

These differences are nothing to shake a spork at.

Thanks to her surprise move this summer to a Texas "Club Fed," Maxwell will enjoy for the first time this year the privilege of eating her holiday turkey with the full complement of prison cutlery: a plastic fork, knife, and spoon.

The same goes for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former "Real Housewives" star Jen Shah, who are also housed at the same facility, and anyone else at one of the country's more than 70 federal prison camps, which feature the lowest level of security.

Everyone else in a federal lockup? Sporks.

"Anybody who's not in a camp is not going to get a plastic knife," prison consultant Sam Mangel told Business Insider. "They're going to get a spork, something that can't be used as a weapon."

Here's another special privilege for camp residents, if one can call it that: Thanksgiving drumsticks to go with the standard prison fare of mashed potatoes with gravy and mixed vegetables.

Only at the camps do they trust inmates with what Mangel called "turkey on the bone." Everywhere else, it's "turkey roast," which Mangel says is a euphemism for warmed-over pre-sliced turkey.

"The bones can be fashioned into weapons," he explained of the drumstick disparity.

The drumsticks are "a step up in the trust level," said Mangel, a former federal camp inmate himself.

Also, they're sizeable — "six to nine inches long," he said. And the prison ovens do crisp up the skin quite nicely, he said.

There's a drawback, though.

"The drumsticks, I can tell you from experience, tended to be filled with, you know, tendons," Mangel said. "While they looked good, there was just a nominal amount of meat on them."

"It's not top grade by any means," he added, speaking of all the turkey options.

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