There will be no puppy love for Ghislaine Maxwell in his new home.
The former confidant of Jeffrey Epstein and the sentenced sex dealer will enjoy a series of advantages at the Cushy Pressions Camp in Texas, where it was transferred last week, but training dogs will not be one of them.
The executive director of Canine Companions, the organization that directs the programs in the new institution of Maxwell and others, told NBC News that puppies training is outside the limits for inmates such as Maxwell.
“We do not allow anyone whose crime implies abuse towards minors or animals, including any crime of a sexual nature,” said Paige Mazzoni, who has led Canine companions since 2018. “That is a hard policy that we have, so we cannot do it.”
These restrictions are in place, added Mazzoni, to protect the puppies.
“Those are crimes against the vulnerable, and you are putting them with a puppy that is vulnerable,” he said.
Maxwell was transferred to the Bryan Federal Prison Field after meeting with Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche for nine hours of interviews for two days. The unusual question and answers session was established when the Trump administration has tried to suffocate a fuss about its management of the Epstein case.
Trump administration officials had reached a position promoting the release of the so -called Epstein files. But the dissemination of approximately 200 documents in February did not yield significant revelations. And last month, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced that an “thorough review” had not discovered evidence that justified other people’s criminal investigation. The announcement led some of Trump’s most burning supporters to attack the administration.
NBC News reported on Tuesday that the Trump administration is considering publicly publishing the transcription of Blanche’s two days with Maxwell, who is serving a 20 -year prison sentence for recruiting minors that Epstein abused sexually.
Maxwell’s transfer to the prison field has also generated controversy. In general, it is not a destination for people convicted of sexual crimes.
The Service Dog Training program is among the special opportunities available for inmates in Federal Prison Camp Bryan. Canine Companions directs these programs in 25 state and federal detention facilities throughout the country.
The first prison -based program was launched in an installation in Oregon in 1995, but now they are especially vital in the middle of a national scarcity of service dogs, according to Mazzoni.
“We need more dogs and need more volunteers,” said Mazzoni.
About two years ago, Canine companions began to focus on growing their prison -based programs. Mazzoni said that the reasons are double: the facilities house a large number of potential volunteers and, curiously, dogs trained by inmates have a higher rate to successfully complete the program.
“It’s because there is so much discipline and prison time to really focus on training dogs,” said Mazzoni.
An additional benefit: the inmates who have gone through the program also have lower recidivism rates, Mazzoni said.
“We received letters from imprisoned people who say things like: ‘It is the first time I felt an unconditional love’ and ‘is my opportunity to give back to society,” he said. “One of the members of our Board loves to say: ‘If that dog does not do it as a service dog, a life has still changed.'”
