Negligence and Mismanagement Enabled Jeffrey Epstein's Suicide, Watchdog Report Finds

A Justice Department inspector general’s report has found that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death inside a Manhattan jail was enabled by significant failures and negligence on the part of staff there, concluding that these blunders essentially created a situation where he “was provided with the opportunity to take his own life.” The report castigates jail officials for repeated “negligence, misconduct, and outright job performance failures" in connection with Epstein’s incarceration and death, but also strongly pushes back on any suggestion that what happened was anything other than a suicide.