The acting chief of the federal Bureau of Prisons has been ousted from his post following the suicide of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in a New York detention facility as he faced sex-trafficking charges.
The leadership changes come more than a week after Mr. Epstein hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where Mr. Barr has said investigators uncovered "Serious irregularities."
Another longtime prisons official, Thomas Kane, who held multiple senior roles at the agency before his departure in 2018, will return as the bureau's No. 2 official, Mr. Barr said.
Mr. Epstein's death laid bare a prison system beset by staffing shortages and other problems.
Jail officials had told the Justice Department that they would monitor Mr. Epstein every 30 minutes and keep him with a cellmate at all times, protocols that weren't followed in the hours before his death.
Early findings by authorities indicated Mr. Epstein hanged himself by using his bed sheet, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The shakeup comes after the Bureau of Prisons was already under scrutiny following the October death of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, who was killed by fellow inmates in a West Virginia prison, according to law-enforcement officials, where he had recently been transferred.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-prisons-chief-removed-in-wake-of-epstein-suicide-11566235716?mod=hp_lead_pos6
The leadership changes come more than a week after Mr. Epstein hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where Mr. Barr has said investigators uncovered "Serious irregularities."
Another longtime prisons official, Thomas Kane, who held multiple senior roles at the agency before his departure in 2018, will return as the bureau's No. 2 official, Mr. Barr said.
Mr. Epstein's death laid bare a prison system beset by staffing shortages and other problems.
Jail officials had told the Justice Department that they would monitor Mr. Epstein every 30 minutes and keep him with a cellmate at all times, protocols that weren't followed in the hours before his death.
Early findings by authorities indicated Mr. Epstein hanged himself by using his bed sheet, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The shakeup comes after the Bureau of Prisons was already under scrutiny following the October death of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, who was killed by fellow inmates in a West Virginia prison, according to law-enforcement officials, where he had recently been transferred.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-prisons-chief-removed-in-wake-of-epstein-suicide-11566235716?mod=hp_lead_pos6
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