Ghislaine Maxwell puts an uncomfortable spotlight on this prison camp town in Texas
Thursday evening, the neighbors noticed a new feature in the prison: a mesh confidentiality screen was set up along a part of the fence, blocking their views. Friday, additional confidentiality screening was affixed to the fence around the campus, blocking the views of the public on the racing path used.
Arrington said that he had not personally heard voters from Maxwell’s arrival, but he thinks that local police and prisons safety could manage related threats.
“We have no fear,” said Arrington. “We had no problem last week.”
Residents around FPC Bryan say that security change is a diversion of the standard.
“They patrol her, not for us,” said Marc Ybarra, 22, from his home in front of the prison, referring to Maxwell.
Ybarra said it was logical that she finds herself in Texas, and in a semi-controlled area like Bryan, to keep her and the controversy surrounding her “silence”.
“It makes any program they had, whatever they are trying to push,” added Ybarra’s partner, Mya Lopez, 21. She agitated an inmate who traveled the jogging path of the prison.
A recent afternoon, Angel Castaneda, a native of Bryan, worked with a team on an alley and a sidewalk of a house in front of the prison camp, while armed guards with bullet-proof vests and other equipment have patrolled around the property.
“They are 24/7 now,” said Castaneda.
The cars could go to the entrance to the prison and use a scanner to pass a barrier arm, he said, but now the drivers are greeted by guards.
“Most people have always thought it was safe. It was never really a problem,” Castaneda said about the prisoner camp. “They have always had everything under control.”
“You will hear about a woman who both escapes, three, five years old. It is random,” he said, adding that they generally do not succeed.
Maxwell’s arrival in prison concerns him, he said, but even more so given his status as a sexual offender than any conspiracy association.
“If they have them in detention,” said Castaneda, “it’s probably better this way.”
Suzanne Gamboa reported Bryan and Erik Ortiz from New York.
