Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that, on a mid-August weekend day on which inmates at the Club Fed in Bryan, Texas would ordinarily be allowed free rein to receive visitors for outdoor picnics and what not, the female jailbirds were instead locked down in their dorms while convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell was in a meeting with parties unknown in the prison facility’s chapel.
After she returned to her bunk, other inmates noticed Maxwell had a smile on her face, but would not say anything about who she had met with or anything that had been discussed.
The rest of the article further paints a picture of the bubble wrapping around the likely future Trump pardonee: After Maxwell arrived at the prison the warden called a “town hall” and warned the inmates that they would be transferred to a real prison if they made any threats or spoke to the media about her at all. At least two have since been moved – including embezzler Julie Howell and another who appears to be the source for the Journal’s reporting here. One night there was a shooting at a house across the street from the Club Fed – which had nothing to do with the prison or Maxwell and still a SWAT team rushed into the sex trafficker’s room and covered her.