The female inmates serving time at the minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, are each provided the typical allotment of two rolls of toilet paper per week. Some of them take special care to avoid running out by ordering extra rolls of Scott — at $2.25 a pop — from the prison’s commissary on their once-a-week shopping day.
But not Ghislaine Maxwell. She doesn’t have to worry about using up all of her supplies because she is given as much toilet paper as she needs. All she has to do is ask.
This benefit that is afforded to Maxwell, described to CNN by sources familiar with her life in prison, is just one of many examples of how some of the rules that apply to her fellow inmates at Federal Prison Camp Bryan simply do not appear to apply to the late Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous right-hand woman, a convicted sex trafficker.
“You don’t understand the value of toilet paper in prison. It is hoarded. It is hidden from staff,” said Sam Mangel, a prison consultant and former federal prison inmate who currently has multiple clients at Bryan. “Because if you think about it, you can go without shampoo for a day or two. You can’t go without toilet paper.”
Maxwell, who has emerged as a central figure in one of the biggest political controversies of President Donald Trump’s second term, has been allowed to largely isolate from the rest of the inmate population. While a typical cell at Bryan sleeps four inmates, at least at one point some of Maxwell’s roommates were moved out. When she raised a concern that other inmates were sitting at the tables nearby and looking into her cell, those tables were mo
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