I saw that she was moved to Texas to a lower-security situation.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's associate, moved to federal prison in Texas
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Updated on: August 1, 2025 / 5:12 PM EDT / CBS News
Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred from a federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a facility in Bryan, Texas, CBS News has learned. No reason was given for the move.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence after she was
convicted in 2021 for her role in helping Epstein recruit and abuse underage girls. An appeal of her conviction is currently awaiting action by the Supreme Court, which is set to discuss whether to take up her case at its closed-door conference in late September.
Maxwell had been held at the federal correctional institute in Tallahassee, a
low-security facility with a population of nearly 1,200 inmates. The federal prison camp in Bryan, where she's been moved, is
considered minimum security and houses 635 inmates, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The move was condemned in a statement by several of Epstein and Maxwell's accusers, including the family of
Virginia Giuffre, who
died by suicide earlier this year.
"It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency. Yet, 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," they said in a statement.