Prison guards fired for leaking personal emails of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell

A Camp Bryan ‘whistleblower’ sent correspondence which suggested Ghislaine Maxwell was planning to ask Donald Trump to commute her sentence to the House judiciary committee.

Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein, and Camp Bryan prison, where she is serving her sentence for trafficking minors.

Staff at the Texas prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years for sex trafficking have been fired for leaking emails she sent to her legal counsel, her lawyer has claimed.

Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of aiding Jeffrey Epstein in the abuse and trafficking of minors, was transferred to Bryan prison camp, a minimum security prison, in a move that outraged her victims.

Democrats on the House judiciary committee released Maxwell’s private correspondence to the media, which they said had been shared with them by a whistleblower.

Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said that the emails showed that Maxwell was preparing an application to reduce her sentence for President Donald Trump to consider.

Ghislaine Maxwell pictured in prison.

In a statement on Friday, Leah Saffian, Maxwell’s lawyer, said a number of prison staff had been fired for “improper and unauthorised access to the email system used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow inmates to communicate with the outside world”.

The correspondence was “illegally obtained and put to unconstitutional purpose”, Saffian wrote, suggesting Raskin should face disciplinary action. She added: “Regrettably this is just the latest example of Ms Maxwell’s human rights being ridden roughshod over.”

She said Maxwell, 63, had not formally requested a commutation of her sentence and said that she was preparing another appeal, this time a motion of habeas corpus in the southern district of New York, after the US Supreme Court declined to hear her petition.

In one letter shared by Raskin, Maxwell appears to tell family: “The food is legions better, the place is clean, the staff responsive and polite, I have not seen a single fight, drug deal, passed-out person or naked inmate running around or several of them congregating in a shower! In other words I feel like I have dropped through Alice in Wonderland’s looking glass. I am much much happier here and more importantly safe.”

The Times