A psychologist at the federal detention center in New York City where financier ...
WASHINGTON - A psychologist at the federal detention center in New York City where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held on sex-trafficking charges approved his removal from suicide watch before he killed himself, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
The letter, provided by the department to Reuters on Friday, confirmed that Epstein had been placed on suicide watch at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan in July, a status under which the designated prisoner is held in a special cell under constant observation by staff or “inmate companions.”
Epstein was found dead Aug. 10 in his cell in the Special Housing Unit of the MCC, and an autopsy concluded that he hanged himself. The finding triggered investigations by the FBI, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, which runs the detention facility.
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