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Lawmakers Visit Minimum-Security Facility Where Ghislaine Maxwell Was Moved To

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Staffers on the Oversight and Judiciary Committees visited the prison facility Tuesday where Jeffrey Epstein’s former conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, is being held.

Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Robert Garcia of California, the ranking members of the Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees, said the staffers traveled there as part of their investigation into Maxwell’s transfer to the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan. The staffers made a three-hour visit, which included a two-hour tour with facility staff and the warden.

“Today, investigators from our Committees traveled to FPC Bryan, where Ghislaine Maxwell is serving her sentence, despite BOP policies barring sex offenders from this minimum-security facility absent a special waiver. We went to Camp Bryan seeking answers about Ms. Maxwell’s unprecedented transfer and VIP treatment,” Raskin and Garcia’s joint statement said.

“While the Camp Bryan staff provided an extensive tour of the grounds and programming of the facility, Bureau of Prisons leadership repeatedly shut down our lines of questioning or could not provide basic information about our central concerns, including Ms. Maxwell’s extraordinary treatment, allegations of sexual assault at the facility, and retaliation against inmates who tried to blow the whistle. We also have serious concerns about the accuracy and veracity of information received by our investigative staff,” the statement stated.

Democrats on the Oversight Committee stated that staffers were investigating reports of Maxwell’s alleged “five-star treatment.”

Today, Oversight Dem staff are visiting FPC Bryan, the TX prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held. Whistleblowers have said Maxwell is receiving “five-star treatment” with special privileges. We are going in to see first-hand and get answers for the American public.

— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) June 16, 2026

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking underage girls, was transferred to the minimum security prison in August 2025 following her meeting with then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July 2025, who is now President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. The Trump administration has not clarified why Maxwell was moved to the minimum security facility.

The warden argued Maxwell was not necessarily given special treatment, but extra measures were required because of her prominence, Politico reported.

Trump initially opposed the release of the Epstein files by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and raged against Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, as well as former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, for supporting a discharge petition that forced a vote on releasing the files. Trump later flipped and signed The Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025, which prompted the DOJ to release over 3 million files.

Maxwell told Blanche during the interview she never saw Trump act inappropriately when in the same setting as Epstein.

The Oversight Committee on Government Reform held a closed-door deposition with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on his ties to Epstein on June 10.