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Preferential Treatment Given to Ms. Maxwell
The committees have also continued to receive damning information about preferential treatment for Ms. Maxwell. 8 Ms. Maxwell has been permitted to use a laptop, unsupervised, while at Bryan—a remarkable security risk under the facility’s own rules and procedures. It has been reported that Ms. Maxwell has been allowed to keep significantly more personal and legal possessions than other inmates and that guards have personally secured and transported these possessions for her. Further, while other inmates watch TV communally and drink tap water, Ms. Maxwell has been granted access to staff-only areas to watch CNN by herself, and she has been provided with bottled water with her meals. When Ms. Maxwell wanted to use a machine at the gym that had been broken for months during one of her private exercise sessions, a panic- stricken staff member roused an inmate to fix it for Ms. Maxwell. The Warden sends out Ms. Maxwell’s mail under the Warden’s own name, presumably so it will not be searched as with other inmates.⁹
While Ms. Maxwell’s special treatment is both astonishing and unprecedented, it clearly stems from the very top. While White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles has implausibly claimed President Trump was “ticked” about her transfer and did not know “why they moved [Ms. Maxwell]” to FPC Bryan, Ms. Wiles clearly did not look far for answers: she was unable or unwilling to explain which senior Trump Administration official ordered the transfer and the subsequent preferential treatment, or why President Trump has not simply transferred Ms. Maxwell back to a different facility, thereby ending this seemingly ceaseless stream of perks. 10
Staff and Law Enforcement Misconduct at FPC Bryan
In addition to whistleblower retaliation related to Ms. Maxwell’s preferential treatment, our investigators have also received significant information that Warden Hall and senior staff at the prison camp may have tolerated, encouraged, and even engaged in widespread sexual abuse and misconduct, in violation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) and federal criminal law. PREA is designed to ensure that federal inmates are safe from sexual assault, mandates “zero tolerance” toward all forms of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in correctional facilities, and sets mandatory standards for the detection, prevention, and punishment of sexual abuse in prisons.¹¹ Under federal law, all sexual relations between staff and inmates constitute abuse and may constitute a serious felony punishable up to 15 years in prison.
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See Letter from Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to The Honorable Donald Trump, President of the United States (Nov. 9, 2025), judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-11-09-raskin-to-trump-wh-re-maxwell.pdf.
9 Whistleblower Information Provided to House Committee on the Judiciary, Minority.
10 Chris Wipple, Susie Wiles Talks Epstein Files, Pete Hegseth’s War Tactics, Retribution, and More (Part 2 of 2), Vanity Fair (Dec. 16, 2025), www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-susie-wiles-interview-exclusive-part-2
11 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice (last accessed Jan. 7, 2026),
12 U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, Deterring Staff Sexual Abuse of Federal Inmates (Apr.
2005),
See also, e.g., United States v. Martinez, 388 F. Supp. 3d 225, 236 (E.D.N.Y. 2019) (“consent is not relevant” for “sexual abuse of a ward” violations under 18 U.S.C. § 2243(b)); 18 U.S.C. § 2243(b).
