The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has brought new scrutiny to a federal jail in New York that, despite chronic understaffing, houses some of the highest-security inmates in the country.
The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to repeated requests for details about Epstein's death. But Attorney General William Barr demanded answers, saying he was appalled by the apparent suicide and announcing a pair of federal inquiries by the FBI and the Justice Department's inspector general. Staffing shortfalls are resulting in extreme overtime shifts, in which guards may work up to 16 hours a day. A person familiar with the jail's operations told The Associated Press that a guard in Epstein's unit was working a fifth straight day of overtime and another guard was working mandatory overtime the day he was found.
Epstein had been alone in his cell when he was found unresponsive Saturday, even though he only recently had returned to the Special Housing Unit from suicide watch. The jail had placed him on 24-hour monitoring — with daily psychiatric evaluations — after he was found injured on the floor of his cell two weeks ago with neck bruises.
The MCC's sister federal lockup — the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which houses more than 1,600 inmates — has had its own troubles in recent years. Epstein's death is hardly the first scandal at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, which last year saw a prison guard plead guilty to taking more than $25,000 in cash bribes to smuggle cellphones, alcohol and food to a wealthy Turkish gold trader. The guard, Victor Casado , was sentenced in January to three years in prison by a judge who called the crime an assault on"our entire system of justice.
I think we need more scrutiny in the DOJ
Scrutiny seems appropriate, some things that were a bit odd
Planned, set up and pretend to be shocked.....and you called it is news?
Those guards do our Dirty Work and we show no gratitude. They look Depravity in the eye every day. Burn out and understaffing is a given. Who has to fortitude to take on that thankless God Forsaken Job and look depravity in the eye ?
You guys are good... very good... keep telling the reasons why Epstein could’ve killed himself.. EpsteinSuicideCoverUp
The god went on break for cleaning I think the Clinton cleaning crew came in
This stinks🤐
EpsteinSuicideCoverUp
Here come the excuses.
Its called accountability and Americans are not so stupid to believe so many coincidences. You can downplay all you want, but something is amiss and Barr will persue til the end
Thats great abc Can you report on my indictment yet? How much longer must I wait for you to report it? For fbi to give it?
And why do you keep running the old Trump/Epstein footage with barely a mention of the Clinton connection? No footage/mention of Epstein's Island? Bill flew there 26 times, it's in the flight log records. You are fake news/narrative shifting. We see you.
Well it's obvious the guards will bite the big one on this. Shit flows downhill.
It 👏🏾 was 👏🏾 not 👏🏾 a 👏🏾 suicide 👏🏾
Being understaffed is no excuse for what happened to Epstein. Since he had the goods on many high profile people he should have been their number one priority. Everything right up to his death, smells.
Cremation to follow
If this actually happened and Epstein wasn’t escorted out of the country never to be heard from again, check the financial records of the prison employees. Follow the $.
Don't suicide cells have cameras? 🤔
Sounds like it was “planned” to be that way. I wonder who was responsible, and where the order came from? The White House?
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