Ghislaine Maxwell: She sits in this prison – with other celebrities

It was a message that came as a surprise on Friday: Ghislaine Maxwell, former partner and accomplice of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is brought to Texas by Florida with a lower security level. As the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the USA’s prison office, announced, the 62-year-old is to serve her 20-year prison sentence in Bryan’s Federal Detention Camp in Bryan. Maxwell was convicted as a member of a sex trading ring in 2021 because the British had recruited for the sexual abuse by Epstein for years of underage girls and young women.

The Deputy Minister of Justice Todd Blanche spoke to Maxwell a little more than a week ago. Blanche had said that he wanted to talk to her about possible other participants in the crimes of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In the new detention center in southeast Texas’ Maxwell now expect significantly lighter conditions of detention. The facility is assigned to the lowest of five security stages and has neither barbed wire fences nor watch towers. According to the homepage of the prison, 635 women are currently housed in the prison. According to the “”, a consulting group for prison system in cells for four to eight women live according to the “”. Most of the women are detained for financial offenses or fraud.

The “BBC” reported as early as 2023 what life in the Texas prison. They are expected to pursue a work in prison for which they get between twelve cents and $ 1.15 an hour. Many are employed in the gastronomic area and a factory.

Apart from that, the prisoners can acquire various degrees and certificates, learn languages, do sports or attend religious events. However, if you do not stick to the rules, such as a clean cell, you can also be punished, the “BBC” says.

Ghislaine Maxwell is not the only prominent name among the detained in Bryan. Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah also sit in their prison in Texas. Holmes was considered the new star in the start-up heaven in the early 2000s. After stopping her studies at Stanford University, she founded the laboratory company Theranos. The company promised a new technology at blood tests, in which 240 diseases should be quickly detected. Investors were enthusiastic and invested huge amounts in the company. The 41-year-old was the first female self-made billionaire-until the house of cards collapsed. The blood tests proved to be ineffective, Holmes was charged with fraud in 2018 and sentenced to an imprisonment of eleven years and three months in November 2022.

Shah, on the other hand, was known for her appearances in the reality program “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City”. The 51-year-old today worked in the first three seasons of the series before she also had to custody. Shah was guilty of telephone fraud in 2022 and was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in January 2023. In the meantime, her punishment has been significantly shortened, so that it could be released in September 2026.

It is unclear whether Maxwell has to serve her complete prison sentence or could be released prematurely: Maxwell’s team of lawyers has been trying to convince the Supreme Court of the United States for months. It is not about conviction itself, but the question of whether a promise of the public prosecutor’s office of a US state is binding for the entire country. In concrete terms, according to the lawyers, it is concerned with an agreement that the Florida public prosecutor is said to have negotiated with Epstein, the contain that no indictment against potential co -swords is being charged.

US President Donald Trump also expressed very vague when asked about pardon. In a television interview on Friday, Trump said that he “could do that, but nobody asked me for it”. He knows nothing about the case.

The US government around Donald Trump puts more and more pressure on dealing with the Epstein documents. The US President supporters are outraged that the US judicial Ministry of Justice announced in early July that it does not see any basics for further investigations in the case. In the election campaign, Trump had promised to publish the files “probably”. His supporters asked for more information about rich and powerful people who are said to have been in contact with Epstein. Trump and Epstein were once friends, the 79-year-old claimed not to know about the machinations of Epstein. According to media reports, the name of the US President should occur several times in the files-however, it is unclear in what connection.