U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday shook up the leadership at the fede...
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday shook up the leadership at the federal Bureau of Prisons, removing its acting chief following the suicide of financier Jeffrey Epstein in a New York City jail.
The Bureau of Prisons has about 37,000 employees and oversees 122 facilities, which house about 180,000 inmates. He died on Aug. 10, when he was found unresponsive in his jail cell. An autopsy report released on Friday concluded he committed suicide by hanging. Epstein’s death at the age of 66 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan triggered multiple investigations and had prompted Barr to criticize “serious irregularities” at the facility.
Epstein had been on suicide watch at the jail but was taken off prior to his death, a source who was not authorized to speak on the matter previously told Reuters. Two jail guards are required to make separate checks on all prisoners every 30 minutes, but that procedure was not followed, the source added.
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