Trump's prison director fires back at outrage over luxury treatment of Epstein lackey [View all]

Source: Raw Story

June 18, 2026 7:22AM ET


President Donald Trump's director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is firing back after a Democratic lawmaker accused the administration of giving luxury treatment to Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maxwell, who authorities said helped run Epstein's child trafficking operation for years, was controversially moved from a facility in Florida to an amenity-filled "prison camp" in Bryan, Texas generally reserved for low-level offenders, breaking the rules that usually would prohibit sex offenders from such a facility — right around the time the administration was trying to get her testimony to turn down the temperature on public outrage over the Epstein case files.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, broke down the apparent injustice of it all in an interview on CNN this week. "Oversight and Judiciary Dems visited Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison today, it is essentially a pristine park with fountains and ample green space," said Garcia, posting his reaction to X. "She’s the only convicted sex offender there ... this isn’t justice."

He demanded answers as to why then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, now Trump's acting attorney general and nominee for the permanent role, sent her to that facility. This comes amid separate reporting that prison staff at the Bryan facility refused to answer basic questions from lawmakers on the tour.

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