DOJ holds Bureau of Prisons responsible for Jeffrey Epstein's suicide

According to a report, the federal agency acted negligently and engaged in misconduct while the pedophile was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.

Jeffrey Epstein, empresario y pedófilo que se suicidó el 10 de agosto de 2019 en la cárcel. — (Cordon Press)

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Alejandro Baños

27 de junio, 2023

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Jeffrey Epstein

Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz held the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) responsible for the suicide of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life on August 10, 2019, at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center prison while serving his sentence.

In a report, Horowitz detailed the reasons that led him to conclude that the BOP acted "negligently" with Epstein:

The combination of negligence, misconduct, and outright job performance failures documented in this report all contributed to an environment in which arguably one of the BOP’s most notorious inmates was provided with the opportunity to take his own life, resulting in significant questions being asked about the circumstances of his death, how it could have been allowed to happen, and most importantly, depriving his numerous victims, many of whom were underage girls at the time of the alleged crimes, of their ability to seek justice through the criminal justice process. The OIG has found significant job performance and management failures on the part of BOP personnel and widespread disregard of BOP policies that are designed to ensure that inmates are safe, secure, and in good health.

At the time of his death, Epstein was under suicide watch. "Epstein had an orange string, presumably from a sheet or a shirt, around his neck. Epstein’s injuries were more consistent with, and indicative of, a suicide by hanging rather than a homicide by strangulation," Horowitz explained in the report. The two officials in charge of monitoring Epstein voluntarily pleaded guilty in 2021, with the goal of avoiding jail time.