Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice in the abuse of underage girls by high-society sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred to a minimum security facility in Texas, according to the United States Bureau of Prisons. This move has sparked anger among some of the pair’s victims.
Maxwell, a former girlfriend of Epstein, was moved from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tallahassee, a low-security prison in Florida, to the minimum security Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. The Bureau of Prisons provided no explanation for the transfer.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, a one-time friend to the powerful and influential in the US, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her crimes.
Two women who said they were sexually abused by Epstein and Maxwell, as well as the family of another accuser who recently took her own life, have condemned Maxwell’s unexpected prison transfer.
Annie and Maria Farmer and the family of Virginia Giuffre stated, “It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government has moved Maxwell to a minimum security prison in Texas.”
They added, “Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency. This move smacks of a cover-up. The victims deserve better.”
The Bryan prison camp in Texas is a minimum security institution, the lowest of five security levels in the US federal prison system. It has limited or no perimeter fencing, unlike low-security facilities like FCI Tallahassee, which have double-fenced perimeters and higher staff-to-inmate ratios.
Maxwell’s transfer comes after Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, interviewed Maxwell for two days at a Florida courthouse last week. Blanche has not disclosed what was discussed during the meeting, but Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said she answered all questions asked.
Maxwell has reportedly offered to testify before Congress about Epstein if granted immunity and has also reportedly sought a pardon from the US president, who was once a close friend of Epstein. Epstein died in prison in 2019.
Tim Hogan, a senior Democratic National Committee adviser, denounced what he alleged was a “government cover-up in real time.” He stated, “Donald Trump’s FBI, run by loyalist Kash Patel, redacted Trump’s name from the Epstein files – which have still not been released.”
Hogan added, “While Trump and his administration try to cover up the heinous crimes included in those files, they’re simultaneously doing favours for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Trump has faced pressure from Democrats and some of his conspiracy-minded supporters to be more transparent about the Epstein case. The FBI and Justice Department recently stated that Epstein did not blackmail any prominent figures and did not keep a “client list.”
Trump ignited further furor when he claimed he fell out with Epstein after the sex offender allegedly “stole” female employees from a spa at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. One of those employees, Virginia Giuffre, accused Epstein of using her as a sex slave and took her own life in Australia in April.
Giuffre’s family pleaded with Trump not to consider pardoning Maxwell, referring to her as a “monster who deserves to rot in prison for the rest of her life.”
In an interview, Trump stated that nobody had asked him to grant clemency to Maxwell, but he had the right to do so. “I’m allowed to do it, but nobody’s asked me to do it. I know nothing about the case, but I know I have the right to do it,” Trump said.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/2/epstein-victims-claim-cover-up-as-accomplice-moved-to-low-security-prison?traffic_source=rss
