Questions arose about the prison camp Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator and former girlfriend, was transferred to last week, after spending years in a federal prison in Florida.
Maxwell was moved to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security prison for women, located roughly 6 miles from Texas A&M University in College Station in Bryan, Texas.
The transfer of the convicted sex offender's came on the heels of her meeting with the Department of Justice (DOJ), where she spoke to the department about 100 people linked to the disgraced financier, who died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The embattled former socialite reentered the public eye earlier this year as calls mounted for the DOJ to release more information into its probe of Epstein's case. The Trump administration released a memo early last month concluding that he killed himself and that he did not keep a so-called "client list."
What to know about FPC Bryan
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), FPC Bryan houses 626 inmates. The facility usually holds nonviolent offenders, where inmates work landscaping and maintenance, to avoid repeatedly checking in and out of a main prison facility, according to The Associated Press.
Dawn breaks at a Federal Prison Camp on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, in Bryan, Texas. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
Before her transfer, Maxwell was at a federal correctional institute in Tallahassee, Fla.
These are low-to-medium-security prisons that may have perimeters that are double-fenced, and inmates are more limited in their movements, according to the BOP.
Similar to other federal prison camps around the country, of which there are seven, according to the agency, some facilities don’t even have fences.
FPC Bryan's high-profile names
Maxwell isn’t the only high-profile name housed at FPC Bryan, according to central Texas' KCEN-TV.
The prison is home to Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves federal court in San Jose, Calif., on March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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- FILE - Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, is escorted by prison officials into a federal women's prison camp on May 30, 2023, in Bryan, Texas. A panel of appeals court judges will preside over oral arguments on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in an attempt to overturn the 2022 fraud conviction of Holmes in the high-profile case that exposed the greed and hubris infecting Silicon Valley. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)
Jen Shah of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” who was sentenced to 78 months in prison for running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme, is also at the Bryan, Texas, facility.
Public reaction to Ghislane Maxwell’s transfer
Actress Alicia Arden, an Epstein accuser, spoke out against Maxwell’s transfer on “Banfield.”
Arden, alongside attorney Gloria Allred, was on Ashleigh Banfield’s show to discuss the possibility of grand jury transcripts being unsealed in the sex trafficking case against Maxwell.
“I think that she should be moved back to the facility where she was, and that’s where she’s serving her time,” Arden told NewsNation. “Why should she be moved to a lower facility with not as much protection and with more freedom there?”
Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking in connection with Epstein in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. She is currently appealing her conviction to the Supreme Court.
Epstein died in jail awaiting trial on related charges in 2019.
Source: The Hill - News
