House Judiciary Committee Democrats revealed Sunday that Ghislaine Maxwell is preparing a commutation application for President Donald Trump while allegedly receiving unprecedented preferential treatment at a Texas minimum-security prison camp.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for child sex trafficking and related offenses connected to Epstein’s abuse of underage girls. She was convicted by a jury in December 2021 and sentenced in June 2022. Her scheduled release date is July 17, 2037.
Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, detailed the allegations in a six-page letter sent to President Trump on November 9, based on information provided by an anonymous whistleblower to his committee. The letter demands answers about Maxwell’s prison conditions and potential clemency arrangements.
According to whistleblower documents obtained by the committee, Maxwell has received what Raskin characterized as “concierge-style” treatment since her transfer to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas in August 2025. The alleged privileges include:
- Customized meals prepared and personally delivered to her cell by federal prison staff
- Special cordoned-off visitor areas with snacks and refreshments for her guests
- Unprecedented permission for visitors to bring computers into the facility, creating potential security risks for unmonitored communications
- Personal assistance from Warden Dr. Tanisha Hall, who allegedly served as Maxwell’s “personal secretary and administrative assistant,” receiving and sending documents on her behalf
- After-hours access to the prison exercise area with personal guard escorts, allowing Maxwell to work out alone and use staff-only recreation areas
- Time to play with service dogs in training, despite regulations typically prohibiting inmates and staff from interacting with these animals
The whistleblower reported that the favoritism has reached such extremes that “one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is ‘sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch,'” according to Raskin’s letter.
Raskin’s letter further alleged that inmates and staff who question or report Maxwell’s preferential treatment face punishment and retaliation from Warden Hall. Other inmates have reportedly been threatened with transfers to significantly worse prison facilities up to 1,000 miles away if they speak to Maxwell, and families have been informed that the camp was closed for Maxwell’s visits.
The whistleblower information indicates Maxwell is actively working on a “Commutation Application” for the Trump administration, with Warden Hall directly assisting her in copying, printing, and sending related documents. In an email reviewed by NBC News with the subject line “commutation application,” Maxwell wrote to her attorney: “I am struggling to keep it all together as it is big and there are so many attachments.”
In his letter, Raskin demanded Trump provide answers to three questions by November 24, 2025:
- Whether Trump has discussed potential commutation or clemency for Maxwell with Blanche or anyone else in his administration
- Whether Trump directed anyone to provide Maxwell with her prison transfer, favorable treatment, or special accommodations
- What Maxwell, her attorneys, family, or representatives have promised Trump or his attorneys
Raskin also requested that Blanche appear for a public hearing before the Judiciary Committee by November 17, 2025, warning that Blanche’s actions “may constitute a serious and far-reaching violation of the criminal law”.”
“You should not grant any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” Raskin wrote. “Your Administration should not be providing her with room service, with puppies to play with, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”
Maxwell’s transfer to FPC Bryan occurred shortly after she participated in a highly unusual two-day interview in late July with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney. During the nine-hour interview spanning July 24-25, Maxwell told the Justice Department she “never saw” Trump in any “inappropriate setting” and claimed she never witnessed anyone engaging in inappropriate conduct with minors at Epstein’s properties—statements that directly contradicted the perjury charges for which she was originally indicted.
The Justice Department released transcripts of the Blanche-Maxwell interview in August 2025.
Federal Prison Camp Bryan is a minimum-security facility designed for short-term, nonviolent offenders with average sentences of five years or less.
According to Bureau of Prisons policy, Maxwell should not be eligible for placement in a minimum-security prison camp due to her conviction as a sex offender. Such offenders are required to be housed in at least a low-security facility. Maxwell’s transfer would have required a waiver from the administrator of the BOP’s Designation and Sentence Computation Center.
Prior to her transfer, Maxwell was incarcerated at FCI Tallahassee in Florida, a low-security facility.
When asked on October 6 whether he would rule out clemency for Maxwell, President Trump replied: “You know, I haven’t heard the name in so long. I can say that I’d have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look.” He added, “I will speak to the DOJ. I wouldn’t consider it or not consider—I don’t know anything about it.”
Following Raskin’s letter, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson stated: “The White House does not comment on potential clemency requests. As President Trump has stated, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about.”
The Supreme Court rejected Maxwell’s appeal of her conviction in October 2025, leaving presidential clemency as potentially her only avenue for early release.
