Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a low-security federal prison in Florida to serve her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
Maxwell, who has filed notice that she intends to appeal her conviction and sentence, is currently booked as an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee.
She was moved on Friday, according to a source close to the defense. The facility is different from what Maxwell’s lawyers have requested. She was asked to serve her sentence in Danbury, Connecticut.
Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to recruit, groom and molest minors.
“There is nothing soft about Maxwell’s determination. It will be surrounded by barbed wire and fences. Her new facility is a far cry from the minimum-security camps people might imagine from TV,” said Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice in New York who was not involved in the case.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends an event on October 18, 2016 in New York City.
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The outgoing BOP director, Michael Carvajal, has been called to testify this week before a Senate panel and may face questions about Epstein’s suicide while in prison.
Maxwell’s attorneys have often complained about the conditions of her detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she was previously held, claiming she was subjected to harsh treatment because of her relationship with Epstein.
At the Tallahassee facility, Maxwell will be expected to wake up at 6 a.m., make his bed, dress in khaki pants and a shirt and maintain a regular job.
“The programs that will be offered to her will be few and far between given the staff cuts and [COVID-19] pandemic,” Levin, the former prosecutor, told ABC News. “And that’s unfortunate because the government should be investing as much as possible to rehabilitate even the least popular inmates.”
ABC News’ Ali Dukakis contributed to this report.
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