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In reply to the discussion: Jeffrey Epstein: how US media - with one star exception - whitewashed the story [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,789 posts)11. This should not have happened, per Harry Littman, former DoJ dude.
DUer Swag posted this in GD:
Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide is unfathomable
By Harry Litman
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First, consider the MCC itself. It is a high-rise, forbidding administrative detention facility in the south of Manhattan. Its population consists almost entirely of prisoners, like Epstein, awaiting trial in federal court in Manhattan. It has been referred to as the Guantanamo of New York for its stringent security measures. It is the facility of choice for notorious federal defendants, often in special administrative segregation units, having previously housed John Gotti, Bernard Madoff, Omar Abdel Rahman and, recently, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán.
In other words, it is the very place to put a high-profile and potentially suicidal defendant such as Epstein.
Second, consider the BOPs suicide prevention protocol. Epstein was found last month unconscious in his MCC cell with marks on his neck. If he was not on suicide watch, it would be astonishing. Yet if he were on suicide watch, his death would be virtually inconceivable.
The BOPs suicide prevention protocol entails, first and foremost, human eyes on the prisoner 24 hours a day. It also requires a strict deprivation of anything shoelaces, sheets, pillowcases that could possibly be used to hang oneself. It also requires disabling anything that could be used to tie a noose vents, sprinkler heads, etc.
CONTINUES...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/10/jeffrey-epsteins-apparent-suicide-is-unfathomable/
Unfathomable.
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Jeffrey Epstein: how US media - with one star exception - whitewashed the story [View all]
Kid Berwyn
Aug 2019
OP
Without Miami Herald, Epstein-Acosta plea deal sounds like "conspiracy theory."
Kid Berwyn
Aug 2019
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