DOJ watchdog blames Jeffrey Epstein's death on prison 'negligence, misconduct'

Financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death in a Manhattan federal jail cell was the result of "negligence" and "misconduct" on the part of the Bureau of Prisons, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a report Tuesday. According to the report, the failures that allowed Epstein time to die by suicide in his cell included multiple prison employees failing to conduct rounds and cell searches to check on Epstein, his access to extra bed linens – which he used to hang himself – and failure to assign Epstein a fellow inmate after he was placed on suicide watch.