In a report released nearly four years after the convicted sex offender was found hanging in his jail cell, the Justice Department inspector general castigates jail officials for repeated “negligence, misconduct, and outright job performance failures.”
While the report released Tuesday castigates jail officials for repeated “negligence, misconduct, and outright job performance failures" in connection with Epstein’s incarceration and death, it also strongly pushes back on any suggestion that what happened was anything other than a suicide.
“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 inspector general, said in a statement accompanying the report’s release.
Epstein was found in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10, 2019, just over a month after he was taken into custody. He was soon taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.
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