Ghislaine Maxwell moved from federal jail to low security prison camp

Associated Press Reporters

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention.

The federal Bureau of Prisons said on Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to Bryan, Texas, but did not explain the circumstances. Her attorney confirmed the move but also declined to discuss the reasons for it.

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She had been held at a prison in Tallahassee, Florida, until her transfer to the camp in Texas.

Minimum-security federal prison camps house inmates the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest security risk. Some do not even have fences.

Low security

The prison camps were originally designed with low security to make operations easier and to allow inmates tasked with performing work at the prison, like landscaping and maintenance, to avoid repeatedly checking in and out of a main prison facility.

Maxwell’s case has been the subject of heightened public focus since an outcry over the Justice Department’s statement last month saying that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

Since then, administration officials have tried to cast themselves as promoting transparency in the case, including by requesting the unsealing of grand jury transcripts.

Maxwell was interviewed at a Florida courthouse over two days last week by deputy attorney general Todd Blanche.

The House Oversight Committee has separately said that it wants to speak with Maxwell as well. Her lawyers said this week that she would be open to an interview but only if the panel were to give her immunity from prosecution for anything she said.