Posted on 08/14/2019 4:08:56 AM PDT by bitt
Guards at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein is believed to have killed himself last weekend are suspected of falsifying log entries to show they were checking on inmates in his unit every 30 minutes when they were in fact not, according to The Associated Press.
A person familiar with the investigation into Epsteins death told the AP surveillance video reviewed after the incident showed guards never made some of the checks they noted in a log.
Epstein was found dead early Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City while he awaited trial on charges he sexually trafficked underage girls.
The news comes after the Justice Department announced it ordered the Bureau of Prisons to temporarily reassign the warden at the Manhattan federal prison place two staff members assigned to Epsteins unit on administrative leave.
I was appalled indeed, the entire department was and, frankly, angry to learn of the MCCs failure to adequately secure this prisoner. We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and that demand a thorough investigation, Attorney General William Barr said Monday morning.
We will get to the bottom of what happened at the MCC and we will hold people accountable for this failure.
Officials are facing pressure to determine why Epstein, who had been placed on suicide watch back in late July after reportedly being found with marks on his neck, was not being closely monitored.
Several reports have surfaced describing the federal jail as being short-staffed and saying protocols were not followed by the prisons employees.
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Even public toilets have an hourly sign in sheet to make sure they are ok.
Unless I missed it, there has been precious little description of what was going on and how the prison is set up. But I gather there were just two guards, which should be plenty if all the prisoners are locked in cells. There are cameras in the halls but not pointed into the cells. It’s not clear, but from the reporting it appears the two guards, who were working continuous overtime, were supposed to check on all the prisoners every thirty minutes. That would presumably keep them moving virtually all the time. That would be impossible even for a regular shift. If this is true, then the process was set up to fail.
Other posters with prison knowledge have stated that understaffing is a common problem. My former workout buddy, a prison guard, said it was common.
It could have prevented the first one because the timing was wrong. And the people responsible for offing Epstein may have counted on the incompetence, as an aid and/or a defense.
Okay so they were over worked, sleepy, sloppy, falsified records, new to the job, and there were two of them.
So tell me why they wont just tell us they killed the guy and if we don’t mind our own business they will kill us too.
Not likely, it is Comey’s daughter.
“And the people responsible for offing Epstein may have counted on the incompetence, as an aid and/or a defense.”
I think if anybody wanted to get Epstein bad enough that they probably ‘helped’ the already lazy-ass guards with a little sedatives in the coffee maker. Make sure that those guards who are already prone to sleeping on the job are actually going to be sleeping when the attempt is made. The first attempt obviously failed. They may only get one more shot.
What? Where did you see that?
We don’t know the guards were lazy ass.
We know bugger all in point of fact.
Including the actual condition of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Folks should keep that in mind: We know jack ****.
Would like to know who is doing that drone footage. The one rusty did of that temple zooming in and changing images to see the spiral is some military intelligence type operator stuff.
Old news. He was 96
There was no camera in Epstein’s cell. However, there are cameras in the hallways, entrances and exits, and throughout the building.
I’m betting that the cellmate killed him before being removed from the cell earlier in the evening and the rest of this is just a cover up. I would even assert that the autopsy has been falsified for time of death.
LOL
First thought I had after hearing of the ‘suicide’ was that El Chapo is in for life and he must be very angry!
Not so much for the life sentence mind you. For the inability to bribe the guards!
Well duh. It’s obvious no one checked on him for hrs, so how else could they get away with it unless they lied?
If any guard falsified a log entry that should be grounds for immediate dismissal. It’s sad when actual accountability is seldom seen in government.
How do we know that he hasn't escaped. perhaps they are waiting to release that information pending other information.
Having spent a few months as a federal employee I would have been surprised if the guard had not falsified the bi hourly cell checklist.
When working mandatory double shifts the first thing to suffer is non daily inspected requirements. Just a shot in the dark but wanna bet it is a purely paper record which is never digitized.
All in same color and penmanship. Think the inmates are going to tell management they had less supervision?
Here is what El Chapo had to say about his stay at MCC
He did, however, reserve praise for the guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility who his lawyer said had treated him 'humanely'.
He also wanted to thank the US Marshals who brought him to the trial and guarded him throughout.
So with El Chapo, the MCC ran like a well oiled machine. With Epstein, all of the sudden, its the Keystone Cops, not even BOP guards if you can believe that.
Pinch hitting for the sleepy, over worked BOP guards is Sad Sack.
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On the other hand the guard(s) just saved the taxpayers millions.
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