Former Head of NYC Prisons: If Epstein Was in Solitary Confinement, He Wasn’t on Suicide Watch

Former Head of NYC Prisons: If Epstein Was in Solitary Confinement, He Wasn’t on Suicide Watch
Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters on July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via Reuters
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After Jeffrey Epstein—the rich financier accused of running a pedophile sex ring—was found dead in his jail cell, a former NYPD commissioner questioned previous reports that Epstein was on a suicide watch.

Epstein was reportedly put into a cell by himself in the Protective Custody wing of the federal detention facility after an apparent suicide attempt on July 24. In that wing, being alone in a cell means solitary confinement and “solitary confinement is not a suicide watch,” said Bernard Kerik in a phone interview with The Epoch Times.

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