President Donald Trump’s child sex-trafficking friend Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be eligible for work release assignments outside the minimum security “camp” she was transferred to after meeting with Trump’s former defence lawyer, who is now a top Department of Justice official.

Maxwell’s Bureau of Prisons classification shows her custody status as “OUT,” which normally would mean she is permitted to work outside the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she is being held. That is a privilege that convicted sex offenders are not permitted under the bureau’s own rules.

The Bureau of Prisons, citing privacy rules, declined to respond to HuffPost’s queries about Maxwell’s status and how she attained it despite her 2021 conviction on sex trafficking charges. Trump’s White House staff also did not respond to HuffPost’s queries.

Maxwell’s prison classification was first reported by podcaster Allison Gill on her Substack blog.

Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversees the federal prisons, wrote a letter last week to the Bureau of Prisons asking how Maxwell came to be transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in apparent violation of its policy.

“Ghislaine Maxwell’s quiet transfer to a ‘Club Fed’ prison does not comport........

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