The Justice Department announced in August 2021 that it would close the Manhattan detention center because of deteriorating conditions at the 46-year-old facility.Prosecutors had asserted they instead were sleeping, lingering in a common office or browsing the internet. Officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas admitted “willfully and knowingly” falsifying documents showing they conducted required cell patrols. Prosecutors deferred prosecution for two prison officers charged with neglecting their duties when Epstein hanged himself.Then- Attorney General Bill Barr appointed a new federal prison director in February 2020 as part of a bureau-wide shakeup of the country’s largest prison system.
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He had pleaded not guilty to charges of drug trafficking and sexually abusing dozens of underage girls in New York and Florida.Įpstein’s death had already triggered a series of investigations and reforms: The report also said the inspector general found no evidence contradicting the FBI's determination that there was no criminality associated with Epstein's death.Įpstein’s case was sensational because he was an investment banker who counted among his powerful connections former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump and Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom. Horowitz found that job performance and functional failures, amplified by staffing shortages and a "widespread disregard" for Bureau of Prisons policies and procedures, made Epstein's death possible. "The BOP's failures are troubling not only because the BOP did not adequately safeguard an individual in its custody, but also because they led to questions about the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death and effectively deprived Epstein's numerous victims of the opportunity to seek justice through the criminal justice system," Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, said in a statement released with the report.Įpstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York in August 2019 while charged with sex trafficking.
WASHINGTON – The suicide of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was facilitated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons' failure to address "chronic problems" within the agency, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday. Additional mental health resources can be found at the end of this article.
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