NEW YORK—The warden brought in to clean up the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself has abruptly stepped down after a yearlong tenure marred by the rampant spread of the coronavirus, inmates’ complaints about squalid conditions, a smuggled gun, and an inmate’s death.
Marti Licon-Vitale, 54, quit the Metropolitan Correctional Center this week. Her abrupt departure came about a week after staff at the jail left an inmate—whose lawyer says he has the mental capacity of an 8-year-old child—in a holding cell for 24 hours while awaiting a competency evaluation, a violation of prison system regulations.
