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Inmates at all 122 federal correctional facilities across the country will no longer be allowed visits from family, friends or attorneys for the next 30 days, in response to the threat of the coronavirus,
The justices ruled against the Trump administration, which had asked the court to throw out an injunction temporarily halting the executions of four men on death row.
“Christmas ornaments, drywall and [Jeffrey] Epstein ― name three things that don’t hang themselves,” Sen. John Kennedy said in a Judiciary Committee hearing.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons employees allegedly fell asleep when they were supposed to be guarding the billionaire pedophile.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Jeffrey Epstein's death by suicide inside a federal jail put a spotlight on the high rate of suicides inside American jails.
Hugh Hurwitz, who served as the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, will be reassigned to a new role.
Surveillance video reviewed after the death showed the Metropolitan Correctional Center guards never made some of the checks noted in the log, a source said.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center is now under scrutiny for what Attorney General William Barr called “serious irregularities."
The committee sent a letter to the Bureau of Prisons asking questions about its suicide prevention policies after the death of the accused sex trafficker.
Jail suicides are almost entirely preventable, and they’re far more common than you might think.