What I the hell is going on under Barr’s jurisdiction? This is a federal incarceration, but Epstein was allowed to die and employees - guards - are allegedly acting like monsters.
Trump and Barr should have made keeping Epstein alive, a top priority. Why didn’t they?
Gee I dunno...with 113,000 employees, maybe AG Barr delegated the job of running this prison to...a warden perhaps?
The AG cannot regulate every jail/prison in yhe US. Being where he is, he can only deal wi5h situations after the fact. Look who the worthless mayor is. Look at tbe worthless governor. Look at the police chief. THEY are much closer to this than Barr.
What is going on is what happens in any large hierarchical organization. Those at the top are there to enjoy pay, perks and privileges. Those below them operate powerful informal networks focusing on turf control, corrupt or vicious private goals (frequently extended interpersonal feuds), and serving various private or clique agendas. This is where the real power lies in such organizations and the players know how to manipulate regulations and even laws to achieve selective punishments and to frustrate any measure from higher up that threatens in any way their fiefdoms.
The only way Barr (who is an old man) could exert some control and discipline on this organization would be for him to descend on them unannounced with a tiger team of people who are personally loyal to Barr. Even then it would be a battle royal unless he had DJT in his pocket and could fire, retire, suspend or transfer anyone as he pleased. This can be done in DOJ as many of their positions lack civil service protections. But at the end of the day the same rule by clique and inertia would return. The old saw I was taught in the military that there are two systems at work. The formal system of rules, regulations, organizational structure, and the informal influence structure that operates according to the unwritten law of self advancement, egotism, greed, laziness, personal viciousness and hypocrisy. The second is much more powerful as rewards and punishments can be meted out quickly. The only large organization that operated on actual mission basis and no excuses that I have ever encountered was SAC during Le May’s tenure and he had a large body of loyalists from the 20th Air Force days,that he moved into positions of responsibility as quickly
as possible.