NEW YORK – As far as Ghislaine Maxwell is concerned, her recent move to a more comfortable prison could not have gone better.
Leaked emails show the convicted child sex trafficker, who is serving 20 years in prison for recruiting underage girls for the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, telling her family how much she is enjoying the minimum-security Prison Camp Bryan in Texas.
“I feel like I have dropped through Alice in Wonderland’s looking glass,” Maxwell wrote to a relative in the messages published by NBC News, adding: “I am much much happier here and, more importantly, safe.”
According to House Democrats, Maxwell is now seeking a commutation of her sentence from Donald Trump, who she praised as a “gentleman in all respects” in an interview with a top Department of Justice official in July.
In a letter to the US President sent this weekend, Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, said it was “clear that Maxwell has good reason to believe that, despite her sentence for child sex trafficking, she may receive the extraordinary grant of clemency from you”.
Asked whether he would pardon her, Trump has said: “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about.”
When the US Supreme Court rejected Maxwell’s appeal against her 2021 convictions on five sex trafficking-related counts in October, he told reporters: “I haven’t heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it.”
“I wouldn’t consider it or not consider, I don’t know anything about it,” he added.
As The i Paper can now reveal, the reality at the prison where Maxwell is serving her sentence is no picnic. The atmosphere in Bryan has become tense, with some of the other prisoners, who include Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, complaining that Maxwell is getting special treatment.
Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison for recruiting underage girls for Epstein (Photo: Patrick McMullan/Getty)At least one inmate has been transferred to a harsher prison after speaking out against Maxwell, while others are “petrified” of doing anything to upset her, prison consultant Sam Mangel said in an interview.
Mangel, who has two clients inside Bryan, said that it was “unheard of” for somebody who was convicted of crimes as serious as Maxwell’s to be put in such a low security facility.
“She has absolutely been treated differently from every other inmate there,” Mangel said. “The other inmates are pissed. People are upset. First of all: no one likes her there because of her charges.
“A number of women in that camp are victims of sexual abuse. Now there’s a woman convicted of sex crimes and she’s in the same environment as they are. These women have daughters who are the same age as Maxwell’s victims.“For her to be getting this kind of treatment given her conviction is unfair.”
According to Mangel, Maxwell has legal visits that are “completely off the books” and nobody is allowed to see who is visiting her because the camp is locked down. The other 650 female inmates in the prison “really resent” Maxwell – but she does not care, he added.
“I don’t think she’s trying to win favour with other inmates,” Mangel said. “I think that there’s a much greater thing going on here and this was just an interim step to get her more comfortable.
“She’s absolutely being protected by the staff and the warden. The other inmates are petrified of her and would do nothing to put her at risk. Nobody will want to risk being transferred to another facility by doing something stupid around here but there’s a lot of very unhappy people and staff.”
At least one inmate has allegedly been transferred to a harsher prison after speaking out against Maxwell (Photo: Scott Rudd/Patrick McMullan/Getty)It is not just inmates who are sick of Maxwell, who was previously housed at the far more restrictive FCI Tallahassee in Florida.
Raskin claimed in his letter that guards had even been delivering meals to Maxwell and no inmate is allowed to prepare her food.
According to Raskin, one of the top officials at Bryan said he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch”.
Maxwell’s lawyers did not respond to a request for comment, but her attorney, David Oscar Markus, told NBC News, which published the leaked emails, that there is “nothing journalistic about publishing a prisoner’s private emails, including ones with her lawyers”.
“That’s tabloid behaviour, not responsible reporting,” he said. “Anyone still interested in that kind of gossip reveals far more about themselves than about Ghislaine. It’s time to get over the fact that she is in a safer facility. We should want that for everyone.”
Ian Maxwell, Maxwell’s brother, added that the release of the emails represented a “breach of … the fundamental right of all citizens to privacy”.
But others have had stronger feelings about what they see as a corruption of the justice system.
In a reference to the notorious Moors murders case, Epstein survivor Marijke Chartouni said: “Imagine if Myra Hindley was given the same treatment”.
In a statement, the family of the late Virginia Giuffre, who claimed that Epstein forced her to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten Windsor three times when she was 17, said Maxwell was enjoying “preferential treatment in Club Fed”, the nickname for low-security federal prisons.
Mountbatten Windsor vehemently denies all the allegations.
Giuffre’s brothers and her sisters-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts and Danny and Lanette Wilson, said they were appalled at how Maxwell was now far more comfortable than many Americans struggling amid the US Government shutdown which cut off food benefits for 42 million people.
“The felon enjoys preferential treatment as she indulges in exquisite meals delivered directly to her dorm room, while tens of millions of Americans fight to put food on the table for their families,” the statement said. “Her big daily choice? Yoga or golf?”
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With the end of the US government shutdown in sight, the House of Representatives will finally vote on a bill that could demand the release of all Epstein-related documents. So far, material has been coming out intermittently after the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Epstein’s estate.
Giuffre’s family said in their statement that the Trump administration was “safeguarding the very documents that could expose the systemic corruption that has prevailed for decades in this cover-up”.
They said: “It’s time for Trump to decide, and the answer is Yes or No. Will you unequivocally rule out a pardon for Maxwell?”
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