CNN – Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrival to the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, this month has sent a shot of tension across its minimum-security all-female units, even while her lawyer says she’s in a safer facility as there is intense political inquiry around Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.
While Maxwell’s living conditions will be less restrictive in Bryan, it’s still a difficult situation, where the Epstein conspirator won’t get all the benefits of an easy or short stay that other inmates might, like access to puppies to train or the ability to leave the facility for work, according to more than a half dozen people familiar with the Bryan prison, the programs and the inmates there.
The inmates inside Bryan, who are largely non-violent white-collar offenders, were warned recently by prison staff to use discretion talking about Maxwell since she arrived, according to two people who represent inmates in the Bryan prison camp.
“She’s not making any friends,” Sam Mangel, a prison consultant who works with clients at the prison camp, said to CNN this week. “Radioactive.”
The relaxed nature of the camp became more tense when Maxwell arrived, which is typical of high-profile inmates on the inside, Mangel said.
“Nobody’s going to rock the boat there. They want to serve the remainder of their sentences with whatever modicum of comfort Bryan provides,” he added about other inmates.
The Daily Telegraph wrote last week that a prisoner at Bryan said she was “disgusted” by Maxwell’s transfer there, in a comment provided to the publication through the inmate’s husband.
Since that comment was published, prison officials pulled that inmate, Julie Howell, out of a puppy-training class in the camp then transferred her out of the facility, according to her lawyer.
Howell is now at a federal detention center in Houston, the lawyer and Bureau of Prisons records say …
