In a joint statement released late Tuesday, Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking members of the Judiciary and oversight committees, respectively, said the staffers met with Bureau of Prisons officials to discuss Maxwell’s “unprecedented transfer and VIP treatment.” They were unsatisfied with the answers.“While the Camp Bryan staff provided an extensive tour of the grounds and programming of the facility, Bureau of Prisons leadership repeatedly shut down our lines of questioning or could not provide basic information about our central concerns, including Ms. Maxwell’s extraordinary treatment, allegations of sexual assault at the facility, and retaliation against inmates who tried to blow the whistle,” the congressmen said. “We also have serious concerns about the accuracy and veracity of information received by our investigative staff.”
The visit reportedly lasted about three hours, with Republican and Democratic committee staff touring the facility for two hours and questioning the warden and other prison leaders for the last hour.
The warden confirmed Maxwell was the only convicted sex offender out of roughly 600 inmates at the all-female Bryan prison, which Garcia told CNN was previously unknown. Garcia also recounted that the warden said prison officials do not know why Maxwell was moved there in the first place.
