Prison employees have been terminated after Ghislaine Maxwell’s email messages were shared, her lawyer says

(CNN) — Employees of a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where convicted child-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is serving time have been terminated, one of Maxwell’s lawyers said Friday, after a whistleblower this week released to Rep. Jamie Raskin alleged correspondence between Maxwell and her lawyer.

Leah Saffian, a California-based attorney who has long-represented Maxwell, said in a statement : “The release to the media by Congressman Raskin (Dem., Maryland), of Ms. Maxwell’s privileged client-attorney email correspondence with me is as improper as it is a denial of justice.”

Saffian added that employees at the prison have been met with “appropriate consequences.”

“They have been terminated for improper, unauthorized access to the email system used by the Federal Bur