Roughly one week after meetings with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell was “suddenly transferred from a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas,” Whitehouse wrote in a letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall.
The transfer raised some red flags for the senator, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Maxwell is famously serving a “20-year sentence for participation in a scheme with [the late Jeffrey] Epstein to traffic and sexually exploit minors,” he wrote, and the FBP’s own guidelines counsel against allowing such inmates in minimum-security lockup.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks during a news conference regarding provisions in the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act at the Capitol on June 5. (Rod Lamkey,
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