CNN — Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, federal Bureau of Prisons officials are struggling to establish even rudimentary facts of what happened over several key hours inside a prison rife with greater problems than previously known. In a speech Monday, Barr described the Epstein failures in personal terms, saying he was “appalled” and “angry” at the “failure to adequately …
CNN — The suicide of Jeffrey Epstein is bringing attention to what employees say is a broader problem at short-staffed budget-constrained federal prisons where employees who aren’t prison guards are doing guard duty and overtime shifts regularly. It’s due to not having enough correctional officers,” Serene Gregg, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3148, which represents employees …
