Whistleblower Describes Maxwell In Prison, Reveals Nothing on Trump
A veteran federal prison nurse has stepped forward with explosive allegations that Ghislaine Maxwell—Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious accomplice—was quietly granted special privileges at a Texas federal facility, raising new questions about accountability inside the Bureau of Prisons and the broader Epstein network.
Noella Turnage, who has served with the Bureau of Prisons since 2019, publicly identified herself this week as the whistleblower who supplied portions of Maxwell’s internal correspondence to the House Judiciary Committee, Newsweek reported. Turnage told KBTX she reached out directly to Congress from her government email.
“I actually emailed them from work, from my Bureau of Prisons email address, and said, ‘Hey, this is who I am, this is where I work, and I have some things I think you might be interested in, and documents you may be interested in,’” Turnage explained. “I didn’t even specify what it was.”
According to Turnage, someone from the office of Rep. Jamie Raskin—the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat—responded within half an hour. She says she has since sat through multiple follow-up calls regarding her disclosures.
“I have not shared them with anyone other than the committee,” Turnage added, noting that some of Maxwell’s emails were shown to a reporter only this week, KBTX reported.
Turnage’s emergence comes months after Maxwell confirmed to the Department of Justice that she never witnessed any inappropriate behavior from President Donald J. Trump during the few occasions she encountered him over the years.
Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for roughly nine hours in late summer. Her attorney said she was fully cooperative and did not “plead the fifth.” According to ABC News, Maxwell reportedly stated that President Trump had “never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern.”
Turnage says she only came into direct contact with Maxwell’s correspondence after being punished by prison leadership for reporting unsafe conditions and what she described as failures in the treatment of inmates at Federal Prison Camp Bryan. She claims the retaliation included being reassigned to the facility’s “phone room,” where she monitored inmate communications.
“They call it prison jail,” she told KBTX. Turnage said she was expected to catch signs of contraband smuggling or banned communications. “These women aren’t risking that, not for the most part,” she added. “And same as emails, you’re monitoring for anything they shouldn’t be doing. Usually on the phone, the biggest thing you run into is they’ll call a family member who then conference calls somebody else that they’re not supposed to be talking to.”
Turnage alleges that Warden Tanisha Hall personally screened all incoming mail addressed to Maxwell—an unusual level of involvement for a facility head.
Despite being a convicted participant in Epstein’s international sex-trafficking operation and currently serving a 20-year sentence, Maxwell allegedly received treatment far more luxurious than that afforded to standard inmates.
KBTX reported that Maxwell enjoyed “private, catered-style visitation arrangements” inside the minimum-security camp.
“There was the whole thing about closing down the compound for her to have a visit,” Turnage recalled.
She claims Maxwell’s relatives were granted private meetings disguised as legal consultations:
“I guess maybe they can bring everybody and say it’s a legal visit?” she speculated. “I don’t know, but they’re going to have an area cornered off for you, so it won’t be a problem coming in. They’re going to provide drinks, coffee, snacks, and all this stuff.”
Turnage said some of Maxwell’s outgoing emails appeared “coded,” featuring unusual spacing and formatting that didn’t match typical inmate communications. The longtime BOP employee printed several of the messages and reviewed them at home.
When she later read a Wall Street Journal report in October about Maxwell’s alleged preferential treatment, Turnage decided the time had come to alert Congress. She then provided the emails to Raskin’s office.