Prison consultant Sam Mangel reveals on the Daily Beast Podcast that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred at the orders of higher-ups.

Officials at the Bureau of Prisons moved convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to a cushier jail after an order came from “well above their heads,” a federal prison consultant revealed on the Daily Beast Podcast. Sam Mangel, a former inmate turned prison consultant for high-profile names like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, explained that the BOP determines where each incoming inmate should serve their time using what’s called a public safety factor. In the case of Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, the BOP took the rare step of waiving the public safety factor related to her sex crime conviction to overcome “a very severe restriction” that would have prevented her transfer to a minimum-security prison in Texas from a federal prison in Florida.