The warden has also been reassigned while the FBI and the Justice Department investigate Epstein's apparent suicide.
NEW YORK — The warden at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life over the weekend was removed Tuesday and two guards who were supposed to be watching the financier were placed on leave while federal authorities investigate the death.
Surveillance video reviewed after the death showed guards never made some of the checks noted in the log, according to the person, who also wasn’t authorized to disclose information and spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday on condition of anonymity. The Bureau of Prisons sent a team of prison psychologists, known as a suicide reconstruction team, to the jail on Tuesday, a Justice Department official said. They are expected to reconstruct the scene, analyze why Epstein took his own life and look at how it happened, the official said. The official couldn’t discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
“I put this on the warden,” he said. “If he would have had common sense and followed policy, we wouldn’t be here discussing this.” The prison has been pressing non-custodial staff into working as correctional officers because staffing levels are less than 70 percent of what they should be, union officials said.
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Guards assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein have been placed on administrative leave, says Justice DepartmentHighly connected financier died of apparent suicide at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
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