The House Judiciary Committee wants answers about Jeffrey Epstein’s death, and unlike so many issues these days, it’s a bipartisan demand. Reps. Jerry Nadler and Doug Collins, the chair and ranking member of the committee, have sent the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons a list of 23 questions about Epstein’s time in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
“Any victims of Mr. Epstein’s actions will forever be denied proper recourse and the scintilla of recompense our justice system can provide in the face of such alleged atrocities; the competency and rigor of our criminal justice system has been marred by this apparent oversight,” Nadler and Collins wrote.
Their questions range from the BOP’s general policies about suicide prevention and MCC’s facilities and staffing for inmates at risk of suicide to specific questions about what type of evaluation and monitoring Epstein received and how long the corrections officers responsible for Epstein at the time of his death had been on shift. They give an Aug. 21 deadline for answers.