(LifeSiteNews) — Contrary to earlier reports, Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is not going to be allowed to leave prison on work release.
Podcast host Allison Gill claimed she had obtained documents showing that Maxwell’s custody level had been set to “OUT,” which “allows her to leave the minimum security campus for work assignments.”
“Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to leave prison as part of the sweetheart deal he got from Alex Acosta that was penned by Alan Dershowitz,” said Gill, hoping to draw a connection between Maxwell’s move to a lower-security prison and the lenient treatment that Epstein received in 2008.
“The claims arrive amid ongoing speculation that Trump is considering offering a pardon to Maxwell in exchange for her testimony in the hopes it could ease anger and speculation surrounding his administration’s backpedaling on its vow to release the so-called Epstein files,” The Daily Beast noted.
“Another day, another false rumor about Ghislaine meant to unnecessarily inflame folks,” Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, wrote on X.
Another day, another false rumor about Ghislaine meant to unnecessarily inflame folks. https://t.co/Bm44i1wiWX
— David Oscar Markus (@domarkus) August 12, 2025
Markus set the record straight and put the rumor to rest.
“There is no such thing as work release in federal prison, so your reporting is false,” Markus posted on X. “All you had to do was ask any criminal law practitioner, and they would have explained this to you.”
“I’m surprised to hear my progressive friends criticizing more humane prisons and Ghislaine’s transfer to a safer facility, especially after she faced serious danger in Tallahassee,” the attorney said. “The outrage machine wants to turn a safer placement into a scandal. But it’s still prison. And despite the sound bites, prison is a truly awful place.”
