Ghislaine Maxwell puts an uncomfortable spotlight on this prison camp town in Texas

Neighbors of the prison camp in Bryan have noticed heightened security — armed guards, patrol vehicles and surveillance cameras — after Ghislaine Maxwell's arrival.

BRYAN, Texas — Daisy Perez has lived across the street from the all-women’s prison in her residential community for nine years, forming a careful, if not curious, co-existence with her fenced-in neighbors clad in matching khakis and boots.

The prisoners at Federal Prison Camp Bryan wave to Perez, 42, and her 78-year-old mother while they’re looping around the recreation yard. They wave as they pick up litter along the roadside. On Sundays, Perez sees them with visitors outside, the scene reminiscent to her of families enjoying a carefree day at the park.

The prison is set in a neighborhood of bungalows and craftsman-style homes with well-kept yards and gardens. Mockingbirds, wrens and sparrows flit in and out of crape myrtle trees lining part of the property’s outside perimeter.