The Federal Bureau of Prisons on Wednesday defended the decision to transfer Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend to a Texas prison after critics alleged the Trump administration inappropriately provided her special treatment. 

Last August, it was revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was moved from a minimum-security federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas. The development triggered criticism from Democrats and other critics of the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case, as the Texas prison houses only women and a majority of its inmates are serving time for nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes.