DOJ Inspector General Releases Report on Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

A report released by the ⚖️Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found Jeffrey Epstein‘s death in 2019 came as a result of “negligence” and “misconduct.”

In the 128-page report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz writes that multiple flaws with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) were found, noting that negligence and misconduct bred an environment leading to Epstein’s suicide, according to Fox News.

According to the report, the BOP failed to assign him a roommate and provided him with “excess prison blankets, linens, and clothing,” even after a previous instance when Epstein had “tried to hang himself.”

Epstein was found dead on August 10, 2019 around 6:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, according to the report.

“The combination of negligence, misconduct, and outright job performance failures documented in this report all contributed to an environment in which arguably one of the BOP’s most notorious inmates was provided with the opportunity to take his own life,” the report read.

About two weeks before Epstein’s death, he had been placed on a suicide watch after he had tried to hang himself in his cell on July 23, 2019. After the July 23 incident, Epstein’s roommate was transferred on August 9 despite the Psychology Department finding that Epstein “needed to be housed with an appropriate cellmate,” according to the report.