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Ghislaine Maxwell says she’s “much happier” at the Texas prison camp she was transferred to in August, she revealed to friends and family in emails. “I feel like I have dropped through Alice in Wonderland’s looking glass,” Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and associate, wrote in an email obtained by NBC News. “I am much much happier here and more importantly safe.” She sent the emails shortly after she was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to the minimum-security Bryan Federal Prison Camp in August. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in a sex trafficking scheme to abuse girls with Epstein. In some of the emails, she touted the prison camp’s cleanliness and orderliness. “The institution is run in an orderly fashion which makes for a safer more comfortable environment for all people concerned, inmates and guards alike,” she wrote in one email. “The kitchen looks clean too — no possums falling from the celling to fry unfortunately on ovens, and become mingled with the food being served,” she wrote in another, comparing it to her previous prison arrangement. Maxwell also told loved ones the food is “legions better” at the prison camp compared to the Tallahassee prison. “The food is legions better, the place is clean, the staff responsive and polite - I haven't seen or heard the usual foul language or screaming accompanied by threats leveled at inmates by anyone. I have not seen a single fight, drug deal, passed out person or naked inmate running around or several of them congregating in a shower!” she wrote. Maxwell even gave a shoutout to prison camp warden Tanisha Hall, whom she hailed as a “true professional.” NBC News obtained the emails from the House Judiciary Committee after its top Democrat Jamie Raskin asked Hall in a letter last month about Maxwell’s “VIP treatment,” citing the Wall Street Journal’s report about the 63-year-old’s “unusually favorable treatment” that has sparked resentment from fellow inmates. “Now, shocking new reports reveal that Ms. Maxwell is not only receiving VIP treatment at FPC Bryan—including private meetings with mysterious visitors, meal delivery to her dormitory, and other special perks—but that you and other prison officials have retaliated against inmates who dared to speak out about her fawning preferential treatment,” the Maryland Congressman wrote. Maxwell was moved to the prison camp days after meeting with Justice Department officials earlier this year; President Donald Trump has not ruled out a pardon. The prison camp is dubbed “Club Fed” for its relatively relaxed conditions that boasts dormitory-style cells, no barbed wire, and opportunities to take classes outside of work. Former prison staffers said such a move was “unheard of” and others said it reeked of “special preference.”
