Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for xes trafficking – is cleared to leave her Club Fed prison camp on work release. The news sparked outrage on social media on Tuesday.
Maxwell’s Bureau of Prisons classification shows her custody status as “OUT,” which means she is permitted to work outside the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
Critics argued that work release is a privilege that convicted sex offenders are not permitted under the Bureau of Prison’s rules.
Maxwell, 63, is allowed to leave the federal prison camp every day to work. She transferred there from a prison in Florida in July, after meeting with President Donald Trump’s personal attorney.
Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in Florida to answer questions about 100 people linked to deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has said there is no Epstein list – after campaigning on the promise that he would release the list.
Maxwell’s participation in a work release program is believed to be the first step toward a presidential pardon.
Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to the Bureau of Prisons asking how Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security prison with no bars or walls.
“Ghislaine Maxwell’s quiet transfer to a ‘Club Fed’ prison does not comport with the seriousness of the sex crimes she was found guilty of,” Whitehouse said Tuesday in a statement.
Others are similarly outraged.
“She now gets to leave the prison!” wrote Doug Wahl on X. “Just 24 hours after talking tough on crime, the Trump administration is now giving Ghislaine Maxwell permission to leave her low-security prison for ‘work assignments.’ Does this sound like justice to you?”
“Ghislaine Maxwell out on work release is a sickening thought,” wrote another X user.
