By Bob Walsh
Performance failures by prison staff led to Jeffrey Epstein’s (right) suicide, according to a new report
What will hopefully be the last chapter of the Jeffrey
Epstein story the DOJ IG has concluded that Epstein did kill himself and
was able to do so largely due to repeated and overlapping instanced of
negligence and stupidity some of which was at least marginally criminal.
Much
of the problem was due to overworked "guards" pencil-whipping the be
checks because they were very overworked or bone tired. At least one of
the tier officers was on a 24 hour shift. Epstein did not have a cell
mate and should have. He also had an overissue of linen which allowed
him to fashion a noose easily. Also most of the tier surveillance
cameras were dead and the BOP was sort of casual about getting them
fixed.
A total of 13
employees were dinged in the latest report for crappy job performance.
Charges were recommended against four of them. Only two workers have
been charged, the tier cops who falsified the suicide check logs.
BOP
has about 30,000 employees (less than California in its heyday of lock
them up) and 158,000 inmates (about what CA had at it's peak). Its
budget is about $8 billion. They have serious staff shortages and other
issues. Their pay scales are not that great until you crawl up the
promotion ladder a bit.
BOP is, in response, reviewing its procedures. That's nice.
Both the NY medical examiner and the FBI have also produced reports along the way, also concluding that Epstein killed himself.
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