Jeffrey Epstein jail 'a gulag' in lower Manhattan
Chris Hondros
Like other federal prisons, the Metropolitan Correctional Center suffers from shortages of staff and resources, prisoner overcrowding and is plagued by violence and poor sanitary conditions.The jail was built to accommodate 474 inmates, but held 763 male prisoners at the time of Epstein's death, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Calling the place a"gulag", she described conditions as"filthy, freezing, no natural light, isolation so extreme that you're punished for speaking through the walls, absurd rules like prisoners not getting to see the newspapers unless they're 30 days old, secrecy so deep that people are force-fed".
According to the Associated Press , the jail is so under-staffed that correctional officers are being offered a $10,000 bonus to transfer there from other facilities.. A person familiar with the Epstein case told the news agency that a guard overseeing Epstein was working a fifth straight day of overtime - and another was working mandatory overtime - on the day the wealthy financier's body was found.
In February 2018, a British court ruled against extraditing accused hacker Lauri Love - who is diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome and would have probably been held in the MCC - on the grounds that he would present a high-risk of suicide if he was sent there.According to the New York Times, Epstein had recently been moved from suicide watch to the Special Housing Unit where he was meant to be on 24-hour monitoring and given daily psychiatric evaluations.
He says it's too early to know what contributed to Epstein's death, until an FBI investigation is complete, but either way the prison is facing a"grossly negligent situation".
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