Inmates are voicing concerns over what they perceive as special treatment for Ghislaine Maxwell following her transfer to a federal prison camp in Texas. Staff members at the facility are reportedly feeling the pressure, with an environment described as ‘walking on eggshells.’

Sam Mangel, a federal prison specialist, shared with the Daily Mail that Maxwell’s arrival at Federal Prison Camp Bryan has disrupted the typically calm setting of this minimum-security institution.

“There’s definitely more security now than before she arrived,” Mangel commented. “Both the inmates and the staff are feeling the tension. Everyone is cautious not to upset the higher authorities.”

The Bryan camp houses 622 inmates who are serving sentences for nonviolent and white-collar crimes, with most not deemed a flight risk.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for her involvement in recruiting and trafficking minors for sex for her former boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein. Before her transfer in July, she was held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida.

Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, was transferred from a run-down prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the minimum-security Bryan camp in Texas this summer. She is pictured here in a 2022 mug shot taken at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center

Inmates at FPC Bryan typically live in two-person bunk beds, which sit within four-to-eight-person cubicles, according to Pink Lady Prison Consultants, a prison consulting group

Maxwell sleeps in dormitory-style accommodation in the B1 unit, one of four housing blocks at the Texas camp

Inmates convicted of sexual-related crimes like Maxwell are not typically allowed to serve their time at a ‘Club Fed’ camp— a term that is often used to refer to the famous all-inclusive Club Med resorts.

Among Maxwell’s fellow inmates include multi-million dollar pharmaceutical scammer and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jennifer Shah, who is in prison for defrauding seniors using a telemarketing scheme. 

Guards who work at the camp, located 90 miles northwest of downtown Houston, usually do not carry weapons and inmates sleep in open dormitory-style areas, not in closed cells.  

Maxwell spent the first three years of her sentence at FCI Tallahassee, where she worked in the law library, taught yoga and hosted etiquette classes for the all-female prison population.

The disgraced socialite was briefly let out of jail in July to speak with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche amid intense pressure on Trump to release the ‘Epstein Files’ – an alleged trove of secret documents supposedly containing the dead pedophile’s VIP client list.

Maxwell’s transfer to the Texas camp came just days later after that meeting — a move that was seen as unprecedented for someone convicted on multiple counts of trafficking minors.

On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee Democrats – led by ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia – demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi provide information by the end of the month regarding Maxwell’s prison transfer. 

In a letter to Bondi, the Committee argued that the ‘suspicious timing’ of the transfer and Maxwell’s alleged preferential treatment at the Texas prison camp heighten suspicions of a cover-up by the Department of Justice and the Trump Administration.

‘The ongoing refusal by DOJ and BOP to provide Congress with information related to Epstein and Maxwell demonstrates the Trump Administration’s contempt for providing transparency to the American people about Epstein’s crimes,’ the letter said. 

‘The interests of ensuring that justice is done for the victims of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s horrific crimes and of protecting the integrity of the US justice system urgently demand that the Trump administration live up to its stated commitment and provide responsive information to this Committee immediately. 

Federal prison consultant Sam Magel said inmates and staffers at FPC Bryan are ‘walking on eggshells’ after all were warned not to speak about Ghislaine’s Maxwell 

The Daily Mail has reached out to Bureau of Prisons and Department of Justice officials. 

Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, has insisted the move was done for her safety.

‘I’m surprised to hear my progressive friends criticizing more humane prisons and Ghislaine’s transfer to a safer facility, especially after she faced serious danger in Tallahassee,’ the attorney wrote on X. 

Inmates told the Wall Street Journal that even before Maxwell’s arrival at the FPC Bryan, prison officials instructed them to conduct a deep clean of the entire dormitory because ‘someone important was coming to do a walk-through.’

The warden also called a meeting where she warned inmates against making any threats against Maxwell or speaking to the media about her. If they did, they would be shipped to harsher facility, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. 

Inmates are not even allowed to utter her Maxwell’s name over their recorded phone calls for fear of getting punished and being sent off to another facility, Magel told the Daily Mail.

‘They’re treating Ms. Maxwell like a guest at a hotel rather than an inmate in a federal prison,’ Mangel said. ‘There’s no question that there’s a lot of animosity there. There is a sense of entitlement that even in federal prison, people with connections and wealth get treated differently, and that rarely is the case.’

Maxwell, pictured with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is a convicted sex offender and is serving a 20-year jail sentence

DailyMail.com snapped exclusive photos of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (right) and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah (left) chatting in the prison yard at FPC Bryan. Both have been seen working out at the minimum-prison facility but have yet to be seen with fellow inmate Ghislaine Maxwell

Mangel continued: ‘I think if you’re one of the other women that are there and seeing that, it’s very disconcerting. Everybody’s in prison for a reason and it’s not meant to be pleasant. 

‘It’s not meant to be fun, but when the staff goes above and beyond to accommodate a single individual, it does create a quite a bit of tension within the facility.’ 

According to the Wall Street Journal, Maxwell was even allowed a private meeting that took place in August. 

Inmates were confined to their dorms after breakfast, while Maxwell had her private meeting with unnamed visitors at the prison chapel, the paper reported.

Mangel said the entire camp was on lockdown and the visitors were brought into the chapel through a side entrance, which was unusual. 

Since her transfer to the Texas camp, there have been more lockdowns and more guards on the premises, Mangel said.  

‘It’s very tense, but more so it’s also unnerving and a general feeling of a lack of equity amongst inmates,’ the prison consultant said.   

The Supreme Court last week denied an appeal filed by Maxwell, which leaves a pardon from President Donald Trump as her last legal chance for freedom. 

Maxwell she is expected to be released in 2037.