<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/virginia-giuffre-issue-statement-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-investigation/61af9ed9-a06c-4bf8-89e0-36c5a90c764a" rel="" target="" title="Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell"><span>Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell</span></a><span>, who had been serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida, has been moved to a lower-security federal prison camp in Texas.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas," BOP spokesperson Donald Murphy said in a statement to CNN.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Maxwell's transfer to a minimum-security prison is relatively uncommon, as those convicted of sex offences are almost always deemed too high of a risk to public safety. That means that those inmates are at best assigned to a low-security prison.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/virginia-giuffre-issue-statement-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-investigation/61af9ed9-a06c-4bf8-89e0-36c5a90c764a" rel="" target="" title="Virginia Giuffre's family speaks after Trump claims Epstein 'stole' her"><strong><span>Virginia Giuffre's family speaks after Trump claims Epstein 'stole' her</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Maxwell, who was sentenced in 2022 for carrying out a years-long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls, has continued to appeal her conviction, including the Supreme Court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The move comes a week after Maxwell met in private with Deputy Attorney-General Todd Blanche at the US attorney's office in Tallahassee. Details of that meeting have not been made public, though her lawyer has said that Maxwell "honestly answered every question that Mr Blanche asked."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Murphy declined to give any explanation for Maxwell's move. The Justice Department has not responded to questions from CNN.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-to-lower-security-prison-camp-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein/d1cd5777-f0c1-415f-b831-d24eb2ea94e0" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her prosecution, along with Epstein's, has long been a focal point for those who believe that powerful people are covering for each other's crimes, a notion that has again spiked in the last month after the Justice Department declined to make public additional evidence in the Epstein investigation or prosecution.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Maxwell has publicly levied that attention to try to work with the government in several respects. Her meetings with Blanche lasted two full days. She has also offered to testify before Congress if major conditions were met, including immunity and receiving the questions beforehand. Those conditions, however, have been rejected.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h2><span>Least-restrictive federal prison facility</span></h2></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A minimum-security prison camp, like in Bryan, is the least-restrictive type of facility among federal prisons, housing inmates considered to be low-risk, non-violent and unlikely to escape. Camps have very little or no fencing containing the inmates, and inside they are able to move relatively freely.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Other inmates in the camp for women include Jen Shah, who was on the TV show "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City," and Elizabeth Holmes, formerly of the blood-testing company Theranos.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>For an inmate like Maxwell to be transferred into a minimum-security prison, a top official inside of the Bureau of Prisons would need to conclude that her risk to public safety has lowered based off recommendations from prison staff or good behaviour. That official, the administrator of the Designation and Sentence Computation Centre, makes those determinations, according to the BOP.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The agency declined to explain the specifics of how Maxwell's reassignment was handled.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Maxwell's new facility, a federal prison camp, has limited perimeter fencing, a low staff-to-inmate ratio, and is "work- and program-oriented," according to the BOP website.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sam Mangel, a prison consultant who doesn't represent Maxwell, suggested that she could run the risk of being threatened, hurt or injured in Tallahassee, especially if she continues to cooperate with the Justice Department, because the Tallahassee prison houses gang members and violent offenders.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Given her situation, it's the best for her," Mangel told CNN.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But family members of Virginia Giuffre — one of the women who accused Epstein of sex trafficking and who died by suicide earlier this year — and other accusers of Epstein and Maxwell reacted to the news with "horror and outrage," saying that it "smacks of a cover-up."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They accused President Donald Trump of sending a message that "paedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas. This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes," wrote accusers Maria Farmer and Annie Farmer, as well as Giuffre family members Sky and Amanda Roberts and Lanette and Danny Wilson.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar. This move smacks of a cover-up. The victims deserve better," they added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-us-president-says-virginia-giuffre-was-stolen-from-mar-a-lago/e92fad6e-bd41-476b-af8b-3780d8ff547d" target="" title="Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women from Mar-a-Lago spa"><strong><span>Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women from Mar-a-Lago spa</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h2><strong><span>Maxwell has previously sought more comfortable conditions</span></strong></h2></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Federal prosecutors leading up to her sentencing hearing argued Maxwell should receive no leniency.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Maxwell also has repeatedly tried to receive more comfortable conditions during the time she's been detained. Prior to her sentencing, Maxwell had complained about being held in Manhattan's Metropolitan Detention Centre, where she had more than a dozen hours a day outside of a cell and had access to a phone, TV, computer and a shower.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She had complained, however, about being isolated while in detention and believing she may face a death threat from another inmate.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prosecutors noted to the judge in her case that she repeatedly complained to the Bureau of Prisons about physical abuse, but the agency at the time "concluded that they are unfounded," according to a filing in her case.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It apparently suits her to spread horror stories about her experiences in jail to the press in an attempt to garner public sympathy," prosecutors wrote at the time in court. "Until July 2020, the defendant spent her entire life living in extraordinary luxury … It is no wonder, then, that she found jail jarring."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In handing down her 20-year sentence, the judge initially designated her to go to a low-security prison and not a camp.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/texas-redistricting-gerrymander-redrawing-districts-usa-politics-news/367e1360-d90c-40af-816f-1b6af191498b" target="" title="Outrage over 'crooked' move that would keep Republicans in power"><strong><span>Outrage over 'crooked' move that would keep Republicans in power</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/Z8tJCf"><em><strong><span>Sign up here</span></strong></em></a><span> </span><em><strong><span>to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.</span></strong></em></div></div>