Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence

The British socialite and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence for procuring underage girls for the paedophile financier.

Maxwell was being held at a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, but was relocated to a minimum security prison this week.

The transfer comes a week after she was interviewed by Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s deputy attorney general.

Her legal team appear to be capitalising on the Trump administration’s recent interest in their client’s case, agreeing she will testify before Congress if demands over her release are met.

Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, confirmed the transfer in a statement to The Telegraph.

He said: “We can confirm that she is being moved but have no further comment at this time.”

The disgraced socialite “is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” a Bureau of Prisons spokesman told The New York Sun.

Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to - Mark Felix/AFP

A source with knowledge of the situation told the newspaper that Ms Maxwell was temporarily moved to FCI Oakdale in Louisiana prior to her move to Texas.

“She is not staying in Oakdale,” the source said. “It was a brief stopover. Officials from Texas were expected to take custody of her shortly after the handoff, and she is being moved again to an undisclosed location.”

Inmates at minimum security institutions, also known as federal prison camps, benefit from low prison guard-to-inmate ratio, and limited to no perimeter fencing.

At the Texas prison, Maxwell will sleep in dormitory housing and have access to off-site work programmes.

It is the same prison facility where Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, is serving her 11-year sentence.

The minimum security prison has limited to no perimeter fencing

The 37-acre all-female facility is home to more than 500 inmates, most of whom are serving time for non-violent offences and white-collar crimes.

According to the prison handbook, life at the prison is centred around work, with inmates earning up to $1.15 an hour for their jobs – many of which involve food service and factory work.

Beyond work, inmates may take classes on foreign languages and business skills, play sports, watch television and attend religious services, the handbook states.

The prison features on a list of the best federal prisons to serve time in, compiled by Elizabeth Franklin Best, a criminal defence lawyers consultancy.

Theranos’ founder Elizabeth Holmes, left, arrives, flanked by prison officials, at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas - Mark Felix/AFP

According to the lawyers, the facility allows prisoners to train dogs to become service animals, through a partnership with Canine Companions for Independence.

It also subscribes to a rehabilitation programme called “assert yourself for female offenders”, where “women learn to be assertive without trampling the rights of others”, according to a DoJ document from 2020.

Maxwell begged Trump to be freed

On July 22, Mr Trump permitted the DoJ to interview Maxwell and did not rule out offering the British socialite a pardon in exchange for information.

She has long argued her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction should be overturned because of a 2007 plea deal that promised immunity for Epstein’s accomplices. She is the only person who has been convicted in connection with his crimes.

Her legal team appear to be capitalising on the Trump administration’s recent interest in their client’s case, agreeing she will testify before Congress if demands over her release are met.

Maxwell’s transfer was allegedly handled by BOP officials directly rather than the US Marshals service, which usually deals with interstate inmate transport.

Georgia prison inmates Stephanie Walker, left, and Marcia Wall spend some quiet time with their Labrador puppies during guide dog training at Metro State Prison - Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images

Mr Trump has come under extreme pressure from members of his own party to release the so-called Epstein files after the Department of Justice and FBI said he did not possess a “client list” and died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

On Monday, Mr Trump once again declined to rule out offering the British socialite a pardon, telling reporters: “Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon but nobody’s approached me with it.”

The family of the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s first accusers who also accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, which he denied, said offering Maxwell a pardon would send a chilling messages to survivors of sexual abuse.

“We’re talking about a sex trafficker, a monster that could do unspeakable things to young women without conscience,” Ms Wilson, Giuffre’s sister-in-law, said. “So what would she do to get herself out of the situation that she’s in?”

She added: “It does send a message to the survivors that, you know, if you’re in power, if you’ve got money, if you’ve got connections, then you’re above the law.

“It’s just sending a message to survivors that their voices and all of the hard work that they’ve done for the last however many years, 10-plus years, doesn’t matter.”

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